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Award-winning author Niki Jabbour introduces you to more than 200 curious varieties of veggies from around the world that will expand your garden in exciting and delicious ways. Start with familiar favorites like broccoli, tomatoes, or cucumbers, then let your imagination go wild with choices like cucamelons, Cape gooseberries, and 'Piracicaba" broccoli. Make your vegetable garden a treasure trove of flavors!
Sommario
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
Info autore
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.
Riassunto
Avid vegetable gardeners will love the challenge to shake up their routine with 224 intriguing plants. Many are favorites from cultures around the globe. All offer exciting flavors and textures and novel colors and shapes.
Prefazione
Avid vegetable gardeners will love the challenge to shake up their routine with 224 intriguing plants. Many are favorites from cultures around the globe. All offer exciting flavors and textures and novel colors and shapes.
Testo aggiuntivo
“Read this book, have a notepad ready, and prepare for a new, international gardening experience. It’s how we grow.” — Country Gardens
“You’ll find acres of inspiration for your spring potager fantasies in this guide.” — Modern Farmer
“A wonderful surprise of a book. Jabbour shakes up gardeners’ assumptions on how our “conventional” vegetables should look or taste—from tomatoes to potatoes, onions to summer squash.” — Booklist
“Loaded with lush photos throughout, this attractive book will appeal to gardeners and gourmands alike.” — Publishers Weekly
“If I could poke around one person’s garden for amazing vegetable combinations, it would be Niki Jabbour’s. This book lets me do just that! Here’s a great way to get out of the ‘same-old same-old’ gardening rut and tempt your palate!” — Carson Arthur, HGTV and Cityline outdoor lifestyle expert
“Niki Jabbour takes us on a global romp filled with peculiar, fun, and delicious vegetable varieties. Inspired by the gorgeous, vibrant photography and Niki’s thoughtful plant descriptions and growing advice, I’m ready to place my seed order!” — Jessica Walliser, horticulturist and author of Container Gardening Complete and Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden
“The perfect book for any gardener seeking new and exciting edible options to keep it fresh and interesting. Thank you, Niki Jabbour!” — Joe Lamp’l, founder of joegardener.com and creator/host of PBS’s Growing a Greener World
“Creative vegetable gardeners rejoice! Niki Jabbour’s new book will shake up your salads and revolutionize your raised beds. Stunning photos and practical growing tips make vegetable gardening so approachable that anyone can grow magenta spreen, celtuce, asparagus peas, and more!” — Stephanie Rose, award-winning author of Garden Made and creator of the blog GardenTherapy.ca
“One of the most powerful ways to build a positive relationship with food is to grow your own. With this book you’ll learn proven techniques, celebrate hard work, develop patience, and ultimately harvest joy.” — Chef Michael Smith, host of Food Network Canada’s Chef at Home and Chef Abroad
“Niki Jabbour opens the door of infinite possibility for gardeners looking to expand into more diverse and exotic vegetable varieties. With a creative approach, she introduces you to a wide variety of plants and gardening techniques and gives you the confidence to take your vegetable garden to the next level.” — Mark and Ben Cullen, of MarkCullen.com: 10,000 Gardening Questions Answered
“I love trying new-to-me veggies in my raised beds, and this fresh, vibrant resource gives me bushels of interesting new options.” — Tara Nolan, author of Raised Bed Revolution
