Sandra Mao

Vibrant Harvest (eBook, ePUB)

Cultivating a Kaleidoscope of Colors in Your Vegetable Garden with Heirlooms, Modern Hybrids, and More

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fill your garden and plate with a rainbow of flavorful produce with this engaging and visually stunning guide to a Vibrant Harvest. It's easy to "eat the rainbow" when you're growing one right in your own backyard! In Vibrant Harvest, you'll meet some of the most colorful veggies on the planet and learn how to grow, harvest, and enjoy them. Author Sandra Mao (@sandra.urbangarden) and her color-infused garden hand you all the insight you need to grow a kaleidoscope of heirloom, hybrid, and ancestral vegetables that are not only a feast for the eyes but also nutritional powerhouses. With this inspiring guide, bringing bright colors and rich flavors into your kitchen has never been simpler or more dynamic. From purple tomatoes, pink beans, yellow carrots, magenta potatoes, and black radishes, to speckled lettuces and orange cucumbers, you'll find handy advice for growing them all. Plus, learn the best varieties to seek out. The book is organized into four parts:

• Choose Your Plants: First, meet these multihued dynamos via detailed plant profiles organized by both the growing season and the edible portion of each plant-stem, leaf, bud, fruit, pod, or root.
• Plan & Start Your Garden: Next, gain insight into planning and installing your garden, from site selection and soil prep, to seed starting and transplanting.
• Care for Your Garden: Then, learn the ins and outs of caring for your polychromatic garden and all the plants living in it, including watering, feeding, staking, pruning, and trellising.
• Pick, Preserve & Prepare Your Harvest: Finally, discover how to harvest and enjoy your rainbow-hued garden through recipes and easy preservation techniques.

It's a KALEidoscope of possibilities out there for modern gardeners! Meet dozens of vivid varieties and gain the expertise you need to plant and tend your own super-colorful garden in Vibrant Harvest.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cool Springs Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780760395127
• Artikelnr.: 75927239

Autorenporträt

Sandra Mao is the creator and founder of the brand Sandra Urban Garden. She lives in Southern California, USDA Hardiness Zone 10B. Sandra has a BA in Business Management and Interior Design, but she has always been passionate about vegetable gardening. She started to grow fruit trees and other edibles when she moved to California. Because of the blessings of the weather and lack of freezing temperatures, she is able to grow most vegetables and fruits year-round (though her content is aimed at gardeners from all growing zones, not just hers). Sandra first started growing her edible garden in containers and has expanded the growing space over the years. She loves helping new gardeners start growing their own food by sharing her passion for growing colorful and productive varieties, offering unique tips and tricks, and teaching others how to use the harvest wisely.