Golden Gate Gardening, 4th Edition: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California

For vegetable gardening in the Bay Area, Golden Gate Gardening is indispensable-if you buy one gardening book, this is the one.
–Michael Pollan

Fully revised and updated, the ultimate vegetable gardening bible for the San Francisco Bay Area offers best practices specific to the Bay Area and the Northern California coast. Expert author Pam Peirce explains strategies for growing both common and unusual vegetables, herbs, edible and cut flowers, fruit trees, and shrubs. This encyclopedic guide includes information on organizing a garden, dealing with pests, assessing a microclimate, gardening on a rooftop, harvesting the crop, and delicious garden-to-table recipes. Charts, sidebars, maps, and resources make it easy to find the information you need. This book is appropriate for gardeners in the Bay Area and surrounding coastal areas from Humboldt County south to San Luis Obispo as well as for those in mild-winter inland climates (including Alameda, San Mateo, Marin, Santa Clara, Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties).

This fourth edition includes updates that address:

climate change new plant varieties changes in pesticides and other products available changes in plant nomenclature