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The Kitchen Garden Grower's Guide
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THE KITCHEN GARDEN GROWER'S GUIDE is Harvest to Table's new encyclopedia and easy how-to guide on all that is natural and necessary in the world of kitchen gardening, small fruit, vegetable, and herb preparation. Stephen Albert leaves no stone--collard green, leek, or potato--unearthed in this absolutely amazing field guide that greenhorns, old hands, weekend gardeners and chefs should not be without. From the soil to the plate, this manual is exceptionally penned and easy to follow. It provides answers to basic and in-depth growing questions. It includes how to plant, how to grow and care for crops, how to harvest, how to store and how to prepare vegetables and herbs. From asparagus and beet greens to Belgian endive and strawberries, this book helps readers organize a small garden close to the kitchen that offers their favorite, fresh-picked-at-the-peak-of-ripeness small crop--and the template on how to orchestrate the effort. Available at Amazon.com or in the Harvest to Table Store, click the Shop button at the top of the page.
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A practical vegetable and herb garden encyclopedia
The Kitchen Garden Grower's Guide details the very essentials to gain small crop prowess and expertise. Detailed growing guides for 80 vegetables and herbs including:
- Seed sowing, planting, and transplanting requirements.
- Site and seasonal growing requirements.
- Water, light, and nutrition requirements.
- Detailed growing characteristics: height, root depth, bloom time, and days to harvest.
- Best varieties for easy care and harvest.
- Cropping and rotation suggestions.
- Pest, disease, and environmental troubleshooting guide.
- Container growing requirements and suggested varieties.
- Propagation requirements.
- Greenhouse and coldframe growing suggestions to extend the season.
- Harvest and storage specifics.
- Plant origin and history.
- Identifying photograph of plant at harvest time.
- Brief description of how edible part is used in the kitchen.
- Common and botanical names for each plant listed alphabetically.
- Plant names in Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese.
- First and last frost dates and growing season days for every state and 250 cities.
- Complete index and gardener's glossary of growing terms.
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