5 top gardening books this season

May 2, 2013 2:22 PM

All ready to get out into the garden? It's prime time for planting, for sure, but you can still curl up with a good book. Here are five of the season's best offerings, and each will both inform and entertain. You might not even have to leave the house to start reading; most are available electronically. -- JESSICA DAMIANO, jessica.damiano@newsday.com