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 | This unique gardening and cookery book shows you how to cultivate edible flower combinations, and how to use blossoms, blooms and petals in the kitchen. ...
Amazon / Anness / Book
 Price: 359.38 $ |  | Julia Child Award for Food Reference. Jane Grigson Award for Distinguished Scholarship. Vast in scope and erudition; unique and enjoyable. In this encyclopedic guide to the history and cultivation of some of Americas most treasured heirloom vegetables, food historian and organic gardener Will Weaver focuses on 280 profiled varieties of 37 vegetables and discusses nearly 400 others. He shares his over thirty years of original research from historical archives as well as hands-on gardening experie ...
Amazon / Owl Publishing Company / Book
Price: 295.88 $ |  | Over the course of a year, Dominic Murphy helped his local school create a beautiful and productive garden that supplied the kitchen with vegetables and the children with flowers to take home. Starting out with a battered polytunnel and two patches of waterlogged clay, Dominic records the setbacks, small triumphs and corners cut as he got the gardening club off the ground. The result is a unique and practical guide to getting everything flowering and ready to harvest before the school holidays. ...
Amazon / Guardian Books / Book
Price: 292.29 $ |  | This book is divided into four sections; the A-Z top 100 herbs, Garden, Kitchen, Health and Home. The garden section features practical step-by-step cultivation techniques, the kitchen section features healthy, mouthwatering recipes, and the health and home section features herbal first aid kits and natural skin care creams. ...
Amazon / Dorling Kindersley H/B / Book
Price: 242.18 $ |  | With more and more people migrating to the countryside, and with the growing trend away from mass-produced and factory-processed foods, the time is ripe for the wisdom and eloquence of Living Seasonally. Here, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd champion respect for the seasons and pride in workmanship as they invite us to share in their dedication to both the practicalities and the aesthetics of living off the land. Living Seasonally puts special emphasis on the raising of vegetables. It details not o ...
Amazon / Henry Holt and Co. / Book
Price: 219.73 $ |  | Want to do wonders with that harvest from your garden...or the local market? This one-stop guide for the cook, the gardener and the multi-tasking kitchen gardener covers everything you need to know about canning, pickling, freezing, preserving, storing and cooking your bounty of fruits and vegetables. Food author and columnist Pat Katz has taken a storehouse of harvesting and storage wisdom, once passed down through the generations, and gathered it all in this one comprehensive A-Z volume. Inclu ...
Amazon / Hartley & Marks / Book
Price: 202.36 $ |  | The Lost Gardens at Heligan sold more than 200,000 copies—and this new look at Britain’s most beloved garden examines one of its chief glories. Originally created to make the house they served self-sufficient, the still-productive kitchen gardens have since undergone a complete restoration under the guidance of Tom Petherick. He, with the help of a leading garden photographer, reveals how he went about his work, and how best to keep flowers, fruit, and vegetables: the entire output of a good gar ...
Amazon / WN / Book
Price: 187.35 $ |  | Weaver focuses on 280 varieties of 37 vegetables in this encyclopedic guide to the history and cultivation of some of Americas most treasured heirloom vegetables. 100+ color photos. 240 line drawings.William Woys Weaver has written an important book in Heirloom Vegetable Gardening --important for the kitchen gardener, the cook, the historian, and any American who might wonder what our forebears were up to when they sat down to eat. What was the food on their table? Where did it come from? How di ...
Amazon / Henry Holt & Co / Book
Price: 128.60 $ |  | A fascinating study of the full cycle of provisioning the country house with fruit and vegetables, including how they were prepared, preserved, cooked and served. The first part covers the supply of seeds, plants, and trees to the use of frames and greenhouses and aromatic herbs and flowers. The second part covers the produce itself: its preparation, preservation and consumption including the use of medicinal herbs. There are chapters on the walled garden at Shugborough in Staffordshire and the ...
Amazon / Sutton Pub Ltd / Book
Price: 123.88 $ |  | This guide features chapters on: garden planning and design (David Stevens includes complete garden plans, garden features, design advice for problem sites, plant selector charts); choosing plants (Anne Swithinbank includes ornamental trees, shrubs for flower and foliage, climbing plants, roses, conifers, garden flowers, alpines and rock plants, water plants, plants for containers, houseplant guide, greenhouse and conservatory plant guide, wildlife gardening, childrens gardening); gardening in p ...
Amazon / HarperCollins UK / Book
Price: 65.18 $ |  | Herbs have been cultivated and used in cooking for centuries, but the cooks herb garden of the 21st century is a far cry from the formal and ornamental gardens of the past. Most gardeners today dont have the space for a dedicated herb garden, and even if they do, not all herbs thrive in the same conditions. The Cooks Herb Garden Revisited advocates taking a fresh approach to growing herbs by incorporating them in the most appropriate place in the garden - whether it be in the perennial border or ...
Amazon / Craig Potton Publishing / Book
Price: 62.26 $ |  | Hundreds of time-tested secrets of Jerry Baker’s Grandma Putt fill this volume of gardening know-how and old time wit. Emphasizing values of ingenuity and old-fashioned grow-how,” the guide starts with the soil to build a great garden from the ground up, with healthy trees, hearty veggies, and bright blooms. The advice ranges from how to double the output of a strawberry plot and quash weeds using other yard waste to growing the richest roses in the neighborhood. In addition to tips and tricks ...
Amazon / American Master Products, Inc. / Book
Price: 49.94 $ |  | Grow Your Own Veg and the companion cookbook Cook Your Own Veg are the bestselling titles from the Gardeners World presenter and garden writer, Carol Klein. Both feature lavish photography and inspirational advice, building on Carols successful BB2 prime-time television series on how to cultivate and make the most of seasonal produce. Grow Your Own Veg takes you from planning your site to preparing your soil, through to harvesting and protecting your valuable crops, from potatoes, beans and onio ...
Amazon / Octopus Publishing Group / Book
Price: 48.80 $ |  | Kitchen gardens have delighted gardeners with their beauty and fresh harvests for centuries. The Art of the Kitchen Garden, in glorious full color, makes it easy for anyone with an interest in gardening and fresh produce to enjoy a beautiful and productive kitchen garden. This elegant book celebrates the old world traditions of designing and planting a garden by emphasizing artistic design, dazzling color arrays, and the details that make each garden unique. Vivid photos and detailed color illus ...
Amazon / Taunton / Book
Price: 47.27 $ |
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