Agricultural Sciences, Cooking with Specific Ingredients, Gardening, Agricultural Produce
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Overview
Through a series of specially created planting designs, discover exciting possibilities for incorporating vegetables, fruits, and herbs into every conceivable space. There are designs for traditional kitchen gardens, ideas for informal fruit gardens, and innovative plans for small yards and balconies. Each design is fully illustrated with inspiring color photographs, and the stylish plans can be used as a template or adapted to suit your needs. Learn how to assess site and soil, decide what to grow, draw up a layout, and construct paths and beds. Step-by-step photographs demystify all aspects of routine care and cultivation, while troubleshooting advice on pests and diseases helps protect the fruits of your labor. The at-a-glance guide to growing more than 100 vegetables, fruits, and herbs includes easy-reference charts indicating sowing and harvesting times. A selection of the author's favorite recipes will help you make the most of your harvest.Editorials
Alice Joyce
Pavord writes on gardening from England's milder shores, but from the expert counsel she provides here on the popular topic of kitchen gardens to a final suppliers' list, this work is clearly aimed at U.S. gardeners. Overall, the focus is on how to plan and care for a garden that will delight the eyes and perhaps eventually fortify the larder with rations of delectable produce. Pavord offers plenty of ideas for combining herbs, flowers, fruiting trees and bushes, and appealing varieties of annual and perennial flowers. The colorfully illustrated designs include traditional, formal styles along with more accessible, basic mixed plantings. Pavord's inspirational sourcebook is also a handsome bet for dreamy imaginings by gardeners with limited resources and little space.Booknews
English gardening expert Anna Pavord guides the reader in creating a productive and beautiful kitchen garden, covering topics from design and structure to cultivar selection. As with most British fruit and vegetable guides, many suggested plants are not available in the US, but the sage advice and inspiring photographs more than compensate. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.From Barnes & Noble
Packed with more than 450 color photos and illustrations, this guide describes how to grow over 100 vegetable, fruits, and herbs with instructions and plans for creating beautiful garden designs that show off your bountiful crop. Includes practical advice on cultivation, plus delicious recipes. A true delight for the gardener/cook! 9" x 10". Color illustrations.Book Details
Published
March 15, 1996
Publisher
London ; Dorling Kindersley, 1996.
Pages
208
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780789404350