Niki Jabbour

Niki Jabbour's Veggie Garden Remix (eBook, ePUB)

224 New Plants to Shake Up Your Garden and Add Variety, Flavor, and Fun

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

2019 American Horticultural Society Book Award Winner 2019 GardenComm Media Awards Gold Medal Winner Best-selling author Niki Jabbour invites you to shake up your vegetable garden with an intriguing array of 224 plants from around the world. With her lively "Like this? Then try this!" approach, Jabbour encourages you to start with what you know and expand your repertoire to try related plants, many of which are delicacies in other cultures. Jabbour presents detailed growing information for each plant, along with fun facts and plant history. Be prepared to have your mind expanded and catch Jabbour's contagious enthusiasm for experimentation and fun in the garden.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781612126715
• Artikelnr.: 49230749

Autorenporträt

Niki Jabbour is the award-winning author of Growing Under Cover, Niki Jabbour's Veggie Garden Remix, The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener, and Groundbreaking Food Gardens. Her work is found in Fine Gardening, Garden Making, Birds & Blooms, Horticulture, and other publications, and she speaks widely on food gardening at events and shows across North America. She has been a radio host since 2006. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and can be found online at SavvyGardening.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Like tomatoes?
   Try ground cherries, Cape gooseberries, tomatillos
   Bonus: Unusual tomato varieties
Like cucumbers?
   Try cucamelons, West Indian burr gherkins, cucumber melons
   Bonus: Unusual cucumber varieties
Like summer squash?
   Try bottle gourds, snake gourds, luffa gourds
   Bonus: Unusual summer squash varieties
Like snap beans?
   Try yard-long beans, hyacinth beans, edamame, chickpeas, daylily buds
   Bonus: Unusual snap bean varieties
Like arugula?
   Try mizuna, mustard, Italian dandelions, turnip greens
Like lettuce?
   Try celtuce, minutina, Tokyo bekana, mache
Like asparagus?
   Try hosta shoots, asparagus peas
Like cabbage?
   Try Chinese cabbage, yu choy sum, komatsuna
   Bonus: Unusual cabbage varieties
Like broccoli?
   Try 'Spigariello liscia', 'Piracicaba', Romanesco, gai lan, sea kale,
huauzontle
Like potatoes?
   Try Jerusalem artichokes, groundnuts, Chinese artichokes, daylily
tubers, dahlia tubers
   Bonus: Unusual potato varieties
Like spring radishes?
   Try daikons, black Spanish radishes
   Bonus: Unusual radish varieties
Like bulb onions?
   Try Japanese bunching onions, Egyptian walking onions
   Bonus: Unusual bulb onion varieties
Like parsnips?
   Try Hamburg parsley
Want more options?
   Grow these unusual varieties of peppers, winter squash, peas, eggplants,
kale, carrots, beets, and turnips
   Nine global herbs you need to know
Acknowledgments
Photography credits
Index