Well, it's not broken out by plant exactly, but I've got a book called "What's Wrong With My Plant (And How To Fix It)", by David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth. It's got lots of pictures and a guide that helps you figure out what's going on. It was recommended to me by the Master Gardeners society in my area and I've used it a couple times. Here is a link that might be useful: loribees garden blog

Kind of, sort of. Finding a book with all of that would be remarkable, and finding such a book oriented to NE OK would be twice as remarkable. There's several good books to help get you started. Since you're more interested in edibles, I'd say Ed Smith's "Vegetable Gardening Bible" is essential. If you are growing in raised beds and want to maximize your production, I'd suggest the newest edition of Mel Bartholomew's "Square Food Gardening". The best book on getting the largest harvest in the smallest space is John Jeavons' book on biointensive gardening. It is called "How To Grow More Vegetables* (and fruits, nuts, berries, grains and other crops) *Than You Ever Thought Possible On Less Land Than You Can Imagine". Some people find his book hard to use because it is very detailed, very scientifically-oriented, and full of charts you spend time deciphering. I like it though, although I certainly do not take such a precise, measured, orderly approach to planting. I do raise vegetables using biointensive methods and my spacing is a hybrid of John Jeavons' recommmendations and Mel Bartholomew's recommendations further modified based on what I've found works for me in my soil and growing conditions. For a beginner gardener, Mel's book on square foot gardening is much easier to start out with....and John Jeavons' book is one you might graduate up to after you have some gardening experience. Rosalind Creasy's new book on Edible Landscaping is remarkable and fits my style of mixing together edibles and ornamentals in the same beds. It is, perhaps, my favorite gardening book of all the ones I've read...and I've read quite a few. It was her earlier books on Edible Landscaping that got me started on edible landscaping, but this recent work is the ultimate guide to edible landscaping and I truly love it, love it, love it. I'll let someone else mention the good books by Oklahoma writers because I haven't read them in over a decade and am not sure I remember the names of them any more, but there are a couple out there. Any gardening book written by Texas gardening guru Neil Sperry is top-notch and since Oklahoma is so close to Texas and we have similar soils and climate, his writing applies as much to us here in OK and to folks down in TX. One of my favorite books from recent years was new last year and its author is Barbara Pleasant, a long-time gardener and an author who writes books and for various gardening-oriented publications. I've linked it below. For a monthly calender (I don't think the weekly calendar you're hoping for really exists, but over time I've written my own weekly calendar in my head based on my soil, my climate, etc.), Google and find the website of the Tulsa Master Gardeners. They have a monthly "to do" calendar that is pretty handy. I'm assuming you already read "Urban Farm" magazine which is very, very good. I've ready "Mother Earth News" for decades and like it vey much, although I like it much more way back in the old days before it became so yuppiefied and sophisticated. "Organic Gardening" magazine is a mere shadow of itself and I've about given up on it. It is probably about 1/50th as helpful as it was in the old days and has gone downhill steadily and rapidly since Mike McGrath left. My favorite gardening magazine is "Texas Gardener" which I've read for many years (OK, decades) and find just as helpful to me in Oklahoma as it was in Texas. It has very detailed monthly "to do" calendars (It publishes six times yearly, so each issue has calendars for 2 months) that cover these categories in separate sections: "Vegetables and Herbs", "Perennials and Annuals", "Trees, Shrubs and Vines", "Fruits and Nuts" and "Lawns and Groundcovers". If I could read only one garden magazine a month, it would be "Texas Gardener" because it covers all the basics and has wonderfully well-written articles. I have the Nov./Dec. issue here at the table close to where I'm siting and it included articles on fall-grown berries, daffodils, growing great edible greens, preserving tomatoes, growing Lacy Oak, holiday herbs, sky island gardening, standard expectations for Texas patios (growing and maintaining standards in space-challenged areas like a patio), and the trials and treasures of growing vegetables. There's more, but I think that gives you a good idea of what it includes. Oh, and one more book. This is and always will be my favorite vegetable gardening book. It was first published in the 1980s and taught me so much about raising vegetables that I cannot even begin to imagine gardening without it. It is called "The Vegetable Book" and was written by the late, great Dr. Sam Cotner, back when he was the head of horticulture at Texas A&M University. The book has a separate chapter for each of the commonly grown vegetables: 31 of them and a 32nd chapter for veggies that were less commonly grown in the 1980s when it was published. There are various appendices that detail gardening-related topices like how to make a tomato cage, rototill a garden, lower or raise your soil pH, build a cold frame, pre-germinate seeds, etc. It is a bit over 400 pages long and my older edition is printed on high-quality paper with quite a few photos. It is available from Texas Gardener press which you can find by googling. They are the publishers of Texas Gardener magazine and publish and/or sell several regionally-oriented books as well. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: Starter Gardens: 24 No-Fail Plans

When it comes to improving a person's proficiency at being able to keep plants healthy, the best investment will be directed toward gaining an understanding of basic physiology/botany and soil science, with the later actually representing the greater potential advance, especially in the immediate short term. For beginners, the Ball publication "Water, Media, and Nutrition for Greenhouse Crops is a very easy to understand text that covers the most important aspects of soil science in simplified form. For the physiology part, Brian Capon's 3rd edition of "Botany for Gardeners" would be a very good choice for beginners because it makes it fun to learn how plants work. Most authors who write books directed at houseplant care are very contradictory of each other, and often say pretty much the same thing using different words for almost every plant. The 2 main reasons for that are: easily 90% of the houseplants we grow will all thrive if grown under exactly the same conditions; the problem is, the conditions we provide force them to grow at the limits of what they're genetically programmed to tolerate, even though the conditions might be based on the suggestions of houseplant book authors. Second, the authors generally start with a set of assumptions that have taken form before the book is even in its conceptual stage, then base their entire lot of observations and recommendations on those assumptions, which is exactly from where horticultural myths arise and are perpetuated. Al

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