The rise of the slow food movement and the return to home gardens mean cooks are donning gardening gloves as often as oven mitts. Modern cooking is heading back to its roots, with home cooks embracing local ingredients and down-to-earth recipes. With more and more of us discovering the delight of preparing and eating freshly harvested food, Vegetables for the Gourmet Gardener is the indispensable guide to what to grow, cook, and eat. A feast for the eyes and the table, this user-friendly resource traverses the realms of both the garden and the kitchen, addressing the cultivation, storage, and preparation of nearly seventy useful vegetables. Practical growing tips, fascinating histories, nutritional information, and classic recipes appear alongside botanical illustrations drawn from the Royal Horticultural Society’s cherished collection. With both familiar varieties and novel options, Vegetables for the Gourmet Gardener will inspire you to create a world of new shapes, colors, and tastes.

Vegetables for the Gourmet Gardener: A Practical Resource from the Garden to the Table

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Akeroyd, Simon

Cooking by Ingredient

University of Chicago Press

Have you always wanted to learn how to grow your own vegetables and fruits, but don't know how to get started? Get Started: Growing Vegetables is your perfect, patient teacher, taking you from complete beginner to being able to complete more than 50 gardening projects. Start simple with your own leafy salad and a delicious strawberry hanging basket; build on your skills with a rustic tepee for beans and plump, juicy raspberries; and show off by designing an aromatic herb garden, nurturing gourmet asparagus, storing your crops for winter, and more. Packed with advice, reminders, and help when things go wrong, Get Started: Growing Vegetables is your first step toward a passion for growing your own food. 
More than any other series on the market, DK's Get Started series simulates carefully structured classroom lessons, an approach that allows you to custom-build courses with practical lessons and themed projects. Nothing's assumed, and everything's explained; each book answers fundamental questions, identifies the subject's basics, and provides step-by-step explanations and assessments so you can fulfill your own unique potential.

Get Started: Growing Vegetables: Learn Something New

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Learn how to grow more than seventy types of fruits and vegetables, while finding tips for dealing with weeds, pests, and diseases in this all-in-one gardening guide for growing tastier and healthier fruits and vegetables. 
Kitchen Gardening for Beginners takes readers through ten steps to preparing a garden plot, providing need-to-know techniques, such as sowing, planting, feeding, mulching, watering, and weeding, as well as easy projects including making a compost bin and planting a fruit tree.

Kitchen Gardening for Beginners: A Simple Guide to Growing Fruit and Vegetables

Whatever the size of your garden or outdoor space, raised beds can work for you. With Simon Akeroyd’s Raised-Bed Gardening: How to Grow More in Less Space, home gardeners will find the perfect bed to suit their needs and objectives. Greater yields and less watering are the keys to using and maintaining raised garden beds. The heart of the book comprises step-by-step instructions for building and maintaining 15 types of raised beds – from the conventional to the innovative “keyhole garden,” which is particularly effective in hot and dry climates, to rooftop. The book also offers plans for raised-bed dining areas and designs to be used by children. Illustrated with 250 images, Raised-Bed Gardening answers numerous questions, including how big and high to make a bed, using reclaimed and recycled materials, extending the season, tackling pests, watering and water conservation, and maintenance. Herb, vegetable and ornamental gardens are explained in detail as well as: <ul>
<li>building a bed with center pond</li> <li>rotating crops</li> <li>creating fruit cages</li> <li>dealing with compost</li> </ul>
Also included are suggestions for building projects and planting schemes to inspire you to create your own unique raised-bed garden.

Raised-Bed Gardening: How to grow more in less space

Taunton Press

Keen amateur gardeners and aspiring professionals can learn from the expertise of the RHS with this handy guide.
It doesn't matter if you're an old hand at gardening or just starting out, there are always things to discover and opportunities to improve, whether it's mastering a new technique or brushing up on your botany.
RHS Gardening School is the perfect guide for gardeners who want to learn. Inside you'll find chapters on: 
<ul>
<li>Understanding plants </li>
 <li> Everyday garden care </li>
 <li> Problem solving</li>
 <li>Planting design</li>
 <li>Gardening through the year</li>
 
</ul>and much more. Hands-on guidance and step-by-step instructions explain topics such as pruning, pest and diseases, weed removal and caring for lawns. Expert gardeners explain the underlying principles in plain English, while clear diagrams and beautiful photographs inspire and inform.
 Become a better, smarter, more productive gardener with this complete guide to horticulture in one handy book.

RHS Gardening School: Everything You Need to Know to Garden Like a Professional

Bayton, Dr. Ross

Mitchell Beazley

Ever wanted to show just how much you know about roses? Or see if you can remember the Latin name for Japanese Maple? RHS Gardener's Quiz & Puzzle Book is designed to test your horticultural and botanical knowledge with puzzles to delight and challenge. 
Featuring over 400 lavishly illustrated questions, from anagrams to garden history, from obscure tools to identifying plants based on their leaves - there are questions for every level of gardening knowledge. 
Including... 
- Solve anagrams to improve your knowledge of Latin names 
- Test your ability to identify plant anatomy with annotated diagrams 
- Feature pages contain quizzes on specific themes such as botany, vegetables, houseplants, pests and plant care 
...and much more.

RHS Gardener’s Quiz & Puzzle Book: 100 Brainteasers for Gardeners Who Know Their Onions

Moore, Dr Dr Gareth

Sports & Outdoors

From the green-thumbed optimist who views their garden as a calming getaway to those that see backyard life as more of a struggle against weeds and pests, almost all gardeners will meet a creature or two who will drive them to despair.\nPlenty of gardeners are ready to swear off nasty chemical deterrents and bloodthirsty solutions. But how can you save your squash and uphold your hostas at the same time?\n50 Ways to Outsmart a Squirrel serves up a smorgasbord of eco-friendly ideas and solutions. They're legal, humane and - best of all - effective. Cut through the old wives tales, save your salt for seasoning, and discover gold-standard, sustainable planting solutions and crop-saving tips from gardeners who know exactly how you feel.

RHS 50 Ways to Outsmart a Squirrel & Other Garden Pests: Ingenious ways to protect your garden without harming wildlife

A newly-revised and complete guide for keen amateur gardeners and aspiring professionals that draws on the expertise of the RHS (Royal Horticultural Society)\nIt doesn't matter if you're an old hand at gardening or just starting out, there are always things to discover and opportunities to improve, whether it's mastering a new technique or brushing up on your botany.\nRHS Gardening School is the perfect guide for gardeners who want to learn. Inside you'll find chapters on: 
Understanding plants Everyday garden care Problem solving Planting design Gardening through the year and much more\nHands-on guidance and step-by-step instructions explain topics such as pruning, pest and diseases, weed removal and caring for lawns.\nExpert gardeners explain the underlying principles in plain English, while clear diagrams and beautiful photographs inspire and inform.\nThis revised edition has a fresh new look with new illustrations and photographs and an easy-to-navigate layout making it an ideal handbook for the new gardener.\nBecome a better, smarter, more productive gardener with this complete guide to horticulture in one handy book.

A foolproof step-by-step beginner's guide to gardening, backed by the authority of the RHS\nThe title might sound like a bold statement, but you really will be able to garden by the end of this book. Whether you are a budding botanist or just aspire to have greener fingers, this book will hold your 'horticultural hand' and guide you gently through the principles of gardening. Whether you have a tiny courtyard or something a bit bigger, this book will share everything you need to know to create your own patch of horticultural heaven.\nWith 12 easy-to-follow chapters that explore all the basics of successful, stress-free gardening including assessing and designing your garden, how to grow fruit and vegetables, plant maintenance, propagation, lawns and container garden. The 15 step-by-step techniques will teach you how to sow seeds, prune shrubs, cut a hedge, mow a lawn and even how to design your own outside space, plus so much more. Just as important, the book explains how to garden sustainably and encourage wildlife, so that you can make informed decisions when it comes to creating and maintaining your garden.

RHS You Will Be Able to Garden By the End of This Book

The perfect gift for the first-time gardener, RHS 50 Ways to Start a Garden is an accessible how-to guide for beginners, including inspiration for 'no-garden' homes\n***\nAimed at first-time gardeners, those in rented homes or anyone with limited outdoor space, this book teaches how to take stock of an environment and start a garden. With ideas for gardens, patio spaces, courtyards, balconies and interiors, these 50 easy-to-adopt ideas provide the steps to success for even the most inexperienced gardeners.\nContents include:\n- Create a floral display with bulbs that last all year 
- Grow pet-friendly plants 
- Create a vegetable harvest in pots 
- Add height in flat spaces 
- Make a mow-free lawn 
- Hang plants around your home

RHS 50 Ways to Start a Garden: Ideas & Inspiration for Growing Indoors and Out

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Vegetables for the Gourmet Gardener: A Practical Resource from the Garden to the Table

Get Started: Growing Vegetables: Learn Something New

Kitchen Gardening for Beginners: A Simple Guide to Growing Fruit and Vegetables

Raised-Bed Gardening: How to grow more in less space

RHS Gardening School: Everything You Need to Know to Garden Like a Professional

RHS Gardener’s Quiz & Puzzle Book: 100 Brainteasers for Gardeners Who Know Their Onions

RHS 50 Ways to Outsmart a Squirrel & Other Garden Pests: Ingenious ways to protect your garden without harming wildlife

RHS Gardening School: Everything You Need to Know to Garden Like a Professional

RHS You Will Be Able to Garden By the End of This Book

RHS 50 Ways to Start a Garden: Ideas & Inspiration for Growing Indoors and Out