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MONTHLY THEME: DIG INTO GARDENING

It’s June. Enjoy the outside…even if it’s sitting in the shade reading Full Bloom by Janet Evanovich.

Click on any of the titles below to reserve the book or stop by the Adult Services Room to see the display. We'd love to see you and pictures of YOUR garden!

The $64 tomato by William Alexander.
~The $64 tomato started out as a simple dream of having a vegetable garden and small orchard in the backyard. It was a dream that would lead to life-and-death battles with groundhogs, webworms, and weeds; midnight expeditions in the dead of winter to dig up fresh thyme; skirmishes with neighbors who feed the vermin (i.e., deer); the near electrocution of the tree man; and the pity of his wife and children.

When Alexander decided to run a cost-benefit analysis, adding up everything from the Havahart animal trap ($60) to the Velcro tomato wraps ($5) to the steel edging ($1,200), then amortizing it over the life of his garden, it came as quite a shock to learn that it cost him a staggering $64 to grow each tomato.


~Publisher’s editorial review excerpted from bn.com

Tantalizing tomatoes: smart tips & tasty picks for gardeners everywhere edited by Karan Davis Cutler.
~Tantalizing tomatoes: smart tips & tasty picks for gardeners everywhere From planting tips to pruning hints, from instructions on starting seeds to scrumptious recipes, this indispensable guide includes everything you need to know about growing America's favorite vegetable. Whether you live in Jersey City, Jacksonville or Juno, whether you garden in containers or on a quarter acre, you'll be harvesting plump, juicy, mouth-watering - and pesticide-free - tomatoes in no time. What's Inside: The tastiest tomatoes for your area, natural pest and disease remedies, the secret to trellising tomatoes, deciphering the important information on seed packets, and an extensive list of suppliers of the hardest-to-find heirlooms and the most disease-resistant hybrids, and more.

~Publisher’s editorial review excerpted from bn.com

The New York times 1000 gardening questions & answers by the garden editors of the New York times; with additional material by Leslie Land.
~The New York times 1000 gardening questions & answers Authoritative, accessible, and engaging, here is a new reference from The New York Times, a comprehensive, nearly 700-page bible of all the garden news that's fit to print. Based on "Gardeners Q&A." the enormously popular syndicated column, 1000 Gardening Questions and Answers is like a passionate conversation between gardeners and gardening experts. Every week readers from around the country send in their most vexing problems--how to divide perennials, prune raspberry canes, grow basil that really tastes like basil, get rid of earwigs, find long-lost varieties of flowers, keep honeysuckle under control--and every week, the authorities at the Times write a column full of answers.

~Publisher’s editorial review excerpted from bn.com
Online Databases
The Tappan Library offers a variety of information-packed databases free to our patrons. To access any of the library's databases from your home, office or mobile device, please visit our homepage at http://www.taplib.org From the home page, click on Adult Services tab and then select Databases from the drop-down menu. If you need any assistance, please call the Library at 359-3877, and we would be happy to help you.

For example, perhaps you'd like to learn more about the landscape architect who designed Central Park, Frederick Law Olmstead. Or Gertrude Jekyll who developed the informal style of garden marked by rhythmic use of color and form. Try the:
  • Biography Resource Center to find comprehensive information on Olmstead, Jekyll and other world-class landscape architects and gardeners.


    • Or maybe you'd prefer to sit on the porch reading a mystery set in a garden, try:
  • NoveList which allows readers to use a keyword (like garden), favorite author or title to find other authors and titles. 3 powerful search techniques to look for books by subject headings, reviews, and other fields in the title records.


    • Does your child need a garden-related poem for a school project? Try:
  • LitFinder which contains over 100,000 full-text poems, including 10,000 under copyright.

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