Who can resist luscious, vine-ripened tomatoes, sweet and tender salad greens or crisp, refreshing cucumbers? Whether you have a few tubs on a balcony or a traditional potager, this title tells you how to grow, harvest and use vegetables from your own garden.
For those who already have experience getting their hands dirty in the garden, this handbook will help them refine their gardening skills and cultivate gourmet quality food.
Firmly rooted in the authors' real-life experience and accompanied by full-color photographs that chronicle a year in their kitchen and garden, this book will inspire gardeners and food lovers to integrate their gardens and kitchens ...
Title: Growing a great garden, and eating from it, too. II. Title. SB321 .D72 2002 635—dc2l 2002020246 Book design by Rik Lain Schell Printed in the United States ofAmerica 13 50 64 73 87 95 103 111 121 128 Copyright Page.
Once upon a time, potatoes, carrots and cabbages were just about the only vegetables the average gardener could contemplate growing - but not any more.
Praise for Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit, by Matthew Biggs and others: "Solid gardening tips and tempting recipes ... enough to teach even experienced gardeners new tricks." -- American Reference Books...
. . This book will leave you . . . ready to launch your own journey to food self-sufficiency.” —Lisa Kivirist, author Soil Sisters Put off by the origin-unknown, not-so-fresh, pesticide-laden herbs at the grocery store?
Whichever your circumstances, this book will help ensure your kitchen garden will bring joy both in the growing and then in the kitchen. Grow & Cook is the essential pocket guide for modern gardeners.
Garden projects include: · Raising seedlings · Building a mini greenhouse · Growing potatoes in a bag · Protecting your garden from the heat · Making a raised bed from old pallets · Growing fruit trees from cuttings · Creating a fire ...
It will inspire you to grow, cook and eat with those you love - and find real meaning along the way. This is a specially formatted fixed-layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book.
For beginners and green-thumbed foodies, this unusually all-inclusive garden-to-kitchen cookbook is part lesson in gardening and part collection of healthy, delicious, kid-friendly recipes.