Groundbreaking food gardens : 73 plans that will change the way you grow your garden

Format:

Book

Title:

Groundbreaking food gardens : 73 plans that will change the way you grow your garden

Other title(s):

Seventy-three plans that will change the way you grow your garden

Author:

Jabbour, Niki.

ISBN:

9781612120614

Publication Information:

North Adams, MA : Storey Pub., [2014]

Physical Description:

263 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Contents:

Urban farmscape -- Culinary herbs for beginners -- Pollinator-friendly raised bed -- Beautiful balcony edibles -- Southern-style backyard farm -- Edibles on a patio -- American potager -- Eggs and everything -- Fig-pig patio -- Critter control -- Eat your yard -- Partially shaded vegetables -- Windy city harvest -- Small space beds -- The circle of life -- Sunburst veggie garden -- Living walls -- Formal herb garden -- Chile lover's garden -- Starter kitchen garden -- Lasagna gardening -- Formal kitchen garden -- Grocery garden -- Backyard orchard -- Front-yard foraging -- Canner's garden -- Slow-food garden -- Power foods -- Heirloom sampler -- Wildlife-friendly garden -- Hanging gutters -- Modern truck garden -- Vintage victory garden -- Asian vegetables -- Garden squares for kids -- Urban homestead -- Teaming with microbes -- Urban shade garden -- Edible knot garden -- Vertical vegetables -- Culinary courtyard -- Concrete and steel garden -- Front-yard suburban farm -- Southern spring garden -- Founding fathers garden -- Terraced hillside -- Edible hedge -- Italian heritage garden -- Community plot -- Edible cutting garden -- Biodynamic farm -- Garlic sampler -- Rooftop farm -- Gourmet containers -- Cocktail garden -- Chicago hot-dog garden -- Upcycled edible patio -- Pallet garden -- "Good bug" garden -- Elizabethan garden -- An easy way to expand your existing garden -- Forager's garden -- Water-wise herbs and more -- Beat the grocery bill -- Fall and winter vegetables -- 52 weeks of salad -- Edible school garden -- Backyard brewer's -- OTTO pizza garden -- Year-round front-yard garden -- Edible campus -- Backyard beekeeper's garden -- Best-tasting tomatoes.

Summary:

Here are 73 garden designs from horticulturalists, community gardeners, bloggers and print writers, television and radio hosts, and other professional gardeners. Contributions include design illustrations, plant lists, and stories explaining the personal quirks and motivations behind the garden. There's a plan to satisfy every craving.

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Follow your zany muse and get creative with your vegetable garden. Niki Jabbour brings you 73 novel and inspiring food garden designs that include a cocktail garden featuring all the ingredients for your favorite drinks, a spicy retreat comprising 24 varieties of chile peppers, and a garden that's devoted to supplying year-round salad greens. Created by celebrated gardeners, each unique design is accompanied by both plant lists and charming anecdotes. This fully illustrated collection glitters with off-beat personality and quirkiness.

Author Notes

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 .

Reviews (3)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Although not as pioneering as the title implies, this collection provides plenty of food for thought, and hopefully for the table too. Jabbour (The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener) has engaged an impressive array of master gardeners; prize-winning bloggers; prominent authors and media personalities; and gardening advisors and experimenters to offer a tasting menu of garden plans suitable for the palate of just about anyone. The designs range from novelty and theme gardens such as Amanda Thomsen's weiner-shaped Chicago Hot Dog Garden-featuring Windy City condiments: tomatoes, onions, hot peppers, dill, mustard, celery, and poppy seeds-to functional plans for attracting wildlife or beneficial insects. Historical plots include LaManda Joy's Vintage Victory and Stephen Westcott-Gratton's Elizabethan Gardens while other plans focus on practical considerations: using rooftop space, featuring shade-tolerant vegetables, or minimizing water. Microlivestock-chickens, bees, and soil microbes-make their appearances too. Instruction are minimal, which is adequate for the more straightforward plans, but readers attempting complex gardening concepts such as Mac Mead's Biodynamic Farm may need to consult more detailed sources. Although gardeners' locations are included in their bios, regional and hardiness zone information is missing from the plans themselves, which is likely to annoy experienced gardeners and may lead some novices astray. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

*Starred Review* As host of the call-in radio show The Weekend Gardener, Jabbour fields questions and receives tips from a wide assortment of produce-growing enthusiasts across the U.S. and Canada. In this lively and inspiring handbook, Jabbour puts these networking skills to good use by showcasing the food gardens of 73 master gardeners, from Seattle to London. Whether the allotted space is a balcony or shady backyard, someone has offered an inventive design for it, including notable horticulture experts such as New York Botanical Garden director Toby Adams, landscape designer Jessi Bloom, and best-selling botany author Amy Stewart. Among the most interesting are Stewart's cocktail garden, providing herbs and fruits for mixed drinks, and a Chicago hot-dog garden, producing bread-seed poppies, mustard, and white onions. Every plan is accompanied by full-color illustrations, growing tips, and tweakable lists of crop possibilities. The abundance of creative advice here will help perk up the gardens of both novice and professional growers as well as satisfy the curiosity of anyone wondering what tickles the imaginations of veteran gardeners.--Hays, Carl Copyright 2010 Booklist

Library Journal Review

Vegetable and herb gardeners are always looking for exciting and new ways to have productive harvests. Jabbour (The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener) has collected an inspiring array of vegetable garden designs (73 total) from across the country. They come from master gardeners, designers, and media personalities (writers, bloggers, designers, radio hosts, etc.). Each garden is specialized, accommodating various conditions (balconies, hillsides, terraces, front yards, containers, rooftops) and some with specific purposes (a biodynamic farm, a beekeeper's garden). Most feature raised beds to grow a range of plants, while others are devoted to specifics such as Asian vegetables or "Italian Heritage." Two to four pages are devoted to each plan, with narratives, line drawings, and charts. Photos of the gardens would have been welcome, but the plans are attractive and give the reader a useful visual reference. One quibble: although the locations of the gardens are provided in the brief gardener outlines at the front of the book, they are not included with the plans. This requires the reader to flip back and forth for that information. -VERDICT An attractive and entertaining book that will be of interest to gardeners and designers. Recommended for public libraries and all gardening collections.-Phillip Oliver, Univ. of North Alabama Lib., Florence (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.