Detailed item info | Synopsis | This book tells the kitchen gardener everything necessary for a successful potager: planning, preparing, maintaining, and harvesting. Includes advice and tricks of the trade, plus charts, drawings, and photos.
| | Details | | Series: | Wayside Gardens Collection Series |
| | Size | | Length: | 128 pages | | Height: | 10.8 in. | | Width: | 10.0 in. | | Thickness: | 0.8 in. | | Weight: | 29.6 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | Imagine heading out to your garden to pick succulent tomatoes, flavorful herbs, crisp beans, and sweet strawberries bursting with juice, instead of having to trek to the market. Even novice gardeners can enjoy the rewards of growing their own produce with the help of this stunning, authoritative sourcebook. Learn to grow a wide range of the most popular vegetables, legumes, fruits, and herbs, including broccoli, carrots, onions, garlic, spinach, tomatoes, peppers, squash, apples, peaches, berries, parsley, mint, basil, and much more. Find out how to assess and enhance soil, rotate crops, prepare the ground, water and feed, mulch, weed, deal with pests and diseases, sow outdoors and under glass, prune, train, and perform other necessary tasks. A season-by-season guide explains how to keep a kitchen garden in peak condition throughout the year.
| | Industry reviews | The kitchen garden is back in favor, and while fashion and fantasy enhance today's versions of the old vegetable patch, these family-size potageres continue to nourish bodies and nurture souls. Successfully adapted from the original British publication to accommodate American climates and gardeners, this Wayside Gardens edition leads readers through the steps of planning, prepping, maintaining and harvesting the veggies and fruits, herbs and flowers typically grown in the backyard plot. Color photos and line drawings illustrate a variety of kitchen garden designs (e.g., square or narrow beds) and approaches (raised or on sloped ground). Soil maintenance, crop rotation and seasonal chores are covered, while extensive chapters detailing vegetables and fruits offer a wealth of advice and tricks of the trade e.g., growing celery in a trench, forcing rhubarb through a pot, training an apple tree to grow flat as an espalier against a fence or wall and starting fruit trees from hardwood cuttings. This pointed and clear combination of text, charts, drawings and photos, anticipates and answers concerns likely to be raised by both first-timers and experienced gardeners. (July)
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