In Charlie's latest book, Urban Gardening For Dummies, learn all about the plants, tips and techniques you need to be a succssful urban or small space gardener. Chapters include information on rooftop gardening, vertical gardening, container gardening, community gardening, and plenty of easy to follow, how-to information on growing your favorite veggies, fruits, flowers, trees and shrubs in the city. Purchase the book below.

Charlie combines his knowledge of growing more than 40 different Italian vegetables with hundreds of Italian recipes from the editors at Phaidon Press, London, England.

Charlie writes about the common (tomato, aubergine, and cucumbers) to the unusual (scorzonera, chicory) with an eye towards how to use them in various recipes and, of course, grow these vegetables.

The book is loaded with straight forward simple recipes that will remind anyone who has traveled to Italy of the fresh, delicious food of that region.

 Check out Charlie's latest book on simple, easy to understanding ways to grow your own favorite fruits and vegetables in the Northeast. 

I've been referring to your latest book, Northeast Fruit and Vegetable Gardening, to develop a new vegetable garden (spot that's never been planted before) and it's been a huge help. I especially like the way you divided it into main ideas, tips, etc. in the first half and then the specific vegetables in the second half. I have a lot of gardening books but yours has been my 'go to' book.

Richard Thompson, Dorset, VT

For vegetable gardeners, the right information is especially important, because if you don't end up with edible food on the table, you've failed. Charlie Nardozzi and the National Gardening Association editors seem comfortingly aware of this fact, but they also want to make vegetable gardening fun and interesting, and to that end there's a lot more here than just the standard tomatoes and zucchini. Bok choy, fingerling potatoes, kabocha squash, daikon radishes--they've included just about every vegetable you might be able to think of, with pithy recommendations of the tastiest and easiest-to-grow varieties.

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