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The Complete Book of Garlic: A Guide for Gardeners, Growers, and Serious Cooks

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Well researched, beautifully photographed and presented in a very logical readable style. Previous to this book, I considered "Growing Great Garlic" by Ron L Engeland the essential garlic book, but "The Complete Book of Garlic" is the only book that I would now recommend. Everything you will need to know about selection, planting, growing, harvesting and storage is here and much more. There is even a section that will help you locate growers that sell planting stock.

Just learning the different (taxonomy) types of garlic can be confusing (due to mixed terminology in the business) at first, but you will have a clear understanding of the garlic types and characteristics after one reading.

The "Essentials" sections covers almost every type of garlic with photographs and characteristic of the specific garlic, plus a quick reference for growing and harvesting.

I have been growing and selling gourment garlic for 9 years and wish this book would have been available when I started. Well worth the price.

The Complete Book of GARLIC by Jed Jordan Meredith.
A beautiful book with fantastic photographs. And tons of information for the curious garlic fan to the the level of professional horticulturalist/botanist. Enough information for a college credit course, I am not talking about the basket weaving type here, but real science.

The standard book, until this one, was Growing Great Garlic: The Definitive Guide for Organic Gardeners and Small Farmers by Ron L. Engeland , which I hated. That one was too negative and written in the old hippie know-it-all style of the 70's.
Buy The Complete Book of Galic, you will love it, and I believe that it will become the new standard on the subject.

I found this book to be very informative, it is well laid out chapter to chapter with excellent information on the species of garlic as well as the different characteristics of each verity. There is well written information for growing and choosing the various types of garlic. I have also purchased and read Growing Perfect Garlic. And found the Complete Book of Garlic an excellent addition to the information offered in learning everything one would need to know when starting on the endeavor of growing and cooking with garlic. I find myself going back to read chapter after chapter as a reference quite often.

I highly recommend this book to anyone wishing to learn as much as they can about this wonderful Herb.

This book was a gift to my husband who is now retired and gardening for the 1st time. One whole bed was devoted to just garlic (Several different kinds). He asked lots of folks about their garlic, when to plant, fertilize, harvest etc. I was in a search for one book that covers it all and then some. This is it! Excellent photos, easy to read and search. This is the Best garlic book ever!

This is an excellent book. It is informative, well written and has good photographs.
It covers cultivation, diseases and pests, taxonomy, composition and chemistry, cultivars, therapeutic benefits, history of garlic and much more. The book was a gift and I'm very happy to have it.
Treva Crooks

I am an avid gardener and in particular, I like growing garlic. I found this to be the most comprehensive book on galric.

This is an excellent book that in addition to an abundance of information of almost every garlic variety there is....the pictures are great. Well written.

Although this book is mainly written for the American climate I have found it a very interesting and informative book.Some pages I skipped but the cultivation and fertilising sections have given me an insight on possibly why some of my garlic is not growing very well.We do not have a great variety of cultivars available here in Western Australia as our Agricultural Dept. does not allow Garlic to be imported into our State from other areas of Australia or overseas,Quarantine laws are very strict in this state.

This is a complete reference for garlic growers. Well written, well organized, and well documented. If you only buy one book on garlic, make it this one.

photos are great. info is highly detailed and written in an easy-to-understand format. i'm learning more than i thought i would, and am being persuaded to incorporate more garlic into my life!