The Beginner's Guide to Growing Heirloom Vegetables: The 100 Easiest-to-Grow, Tastiest Vegetables for Your Garden

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Timber Press, Jan 11, 2012 - Technology & Engineering - 252 pages

Growing your own vegetables has never looked, or tasted, so good.

Are heirloom vegetables more difficult to grow than conventional hybrids? The Beginner's Guide to Growing Heirloom Vegetables debunks this myth by highlighting the 100 heirloom vegetables that are the easiest to grow and the tastiest to eat.

Marie Iannotti makes it simple for beginning gardeners to jump on the heirloom trend by presenting an edited list based on years of gardening trial and error. Her plant criteria is threefold: The 100 plants must be amazing to eat, bring something unique to the table, and—most importantly—they have to be unfussy and easy to grow. Her list includes garden favorites like the meaty and mellow 'Lacinato' Kale, the underused and earthy 'Turkish Orange' Eggplant, and the unexpected sweetness of 'Apollo' Arugula.

 

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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
HEIRLOOM VEGETABLES AND WHY WE PRIZE THEM
100 FAVORITE HEIRLOOM VEGETABLES
CREATING YOUR OWN HEIRLOOMS
GLOSSARY
HARDINESS ZONES
RESOURCES
SUGGESTED READING
INDEX
PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS
Copyright

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About the author (2012)

Marie Iannotti is an avid gardener, writer, photographer, and speaker. She is a Master Gardener Emeritus, as well as a former Cornell Cooperative Extension Horticulture Educator. She was the gardening expert at About.com for over a decade, and her writing has been featured in outlets nationwide. You can find out more at marieiannotti.com.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Beginner's Guide to Growing Heirloom Vegetables: The 100 Easiest-to-Grow, Tastiest Vegetables for Your Garden
AuthorMarie Iannotti
Editionillustrated
PublisherTimber Press, 2012
ISBN1604691883, 9781604691887
Length252 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Gardening / Techniques
Gardening / Vegetables
Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Organic
Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Sustainable Agriculture
  
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