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Growing Unusual Vegetables: Weird And Wonderful Vegetables And How to Grow Them

Growing Unusual Vegetables: Weird And Wonderful Vegetables And How to Grow Them
By Simon Hickmott

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Growing Unusual Vegetables is for gardeners who like to try something different. In this book they will find more than ninety unusual plants, all of them edible. The book is divided into sections on greens, roots, fruits, seeds, grains, and flavorings for easy reference. Each plant entry comes complete with comprehensive cultivation instructions, hardiness zones, and fascinating notes on the plant’s origin, history, and uses.

With this indispensable guide, you can turn your garden into a unique storehouse of useful and unusual edible plants, many of which are surprisingly easy to grow.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #1062026 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-04-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 268 pages

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Author Simon Hickmott is a seed saver and proprietor of a company specializing in rare edible plants: here he's covering some ninety unusual vegetables, providing the cultivation directions and historical background gardeners need to consider something different. From Egyptian or Tree Onion to Melon Pears, New Zealand Yams and more, Growing Unusual Vegetables: Weird and Wonderful Vegetables and How to Grow Them holds no fancy color photos: just plenty of practical, applied details gardeners will appreciate. -Midwest Review of Books

About the Author
Simon Hickmott from Somerset, England, is a plantsman with an international reputation, a seed saver, and the former proprietor of Future Foods, a company that specialized in rare and unusual plants.

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Plenty of practical, applied details gardeners will appreciate5
Author Simon Hickmott is a seed saver and proprietor of a company specializing in rare edible plants: here he's covering some ninety unusual vegetables, providing the cultivation directions and historical background gardeners need to consider something different. From Egyptian or Tree Onion to Melon Pears, New Zealand Yams and more, GROWING UNUSUAL VEGETABLES: WEIRD AND WONDERFUL VEGETABLES AND HOW TO GROW THEM holds no fancy color photos: just plenty of practical, applied details gardeners will appreciate.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch