Add minerals, compost, and mulch now and you'll have super-fertile soil come spring. As the busy garden season wraps up, there's one last—but very important—task to tend to: Feeding your soil.

If there was ever a vegetable gardening power couple, Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch would be it. Thirty years ago, I read Eliot Coleman’s classic, “The New Organic Grower” (Chelsea Green, 1989).

I recently received review copies of two new gardening books. In reading them, I discovered that while these books are similar, each representing a call to garden, they also couldn’t be more different ...