Rainy days have made it hard to work outside, so I’ve been turning to my bookshelves.
I’ve been working my way through “Teaming with Microbes” by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis. I enjoyed the descriptions of bacteria, fungi, bugs and other creatures that live in the soil. Now I’m at the part where they’re telling me how to count my soil organisms, which sounds like fun but I don’t see myself having time to do it.
So in the meantime I just picked up “Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens” by Douglas W. Tallamy, which has been on my shelf for a while.
I’ve also been flipping through “For Love of Insects” by Thomas Eisner. It’s full of stories about the insects he has encountered throughout his science career and all the fun things he did to study them. There are a lot of experiments that involve feeding one bug to another to see what will happen, and getting bugs to fight.
What garden books are you reading to pass the rainy days? What books should every gardener have on their shelves?
