Home Grown: A Growing Guide for Creating a Cook's Garden - Softcover

Teegen, Marta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605295175 ISBN 13: 9781605295176

Publisher: Rodale Press, 2010

Synopsis

As a trained chef-turned-professional kitchen garden designer, Marta Teegen knows what a difference freshly harvested vegetables can make to a meal - and how easy it is to ensure seasonal vegetables are always available when you need them. She touts the joys of creating front yard-friendly raised beds and container gardens that take up only a small amount of space and look beautiful to boot, and shares ideas for tucking productive gardens in other small nooks and corners. Teegen's unique cuisine-based planting methods mean herbs, vegetables, and edible flowers grow next to each other in comingled plots quickly, reliably, and efficiently. Readers will find more than 40 top picks for small-space vegetables that yield big and are trouble-free, plus a variety of menus and 50 recipes for fresh and delicious summer dishes. With food prices on the rise and concern over pesticide residues on produce ever present, the number of home owners growing vegetables nearly doubled in the last year. "Homegrown" shows that even urban and suburban dwellers can grow their own vegetables in easy-to-tend plots and spaces.

About this title

About the Author

MARTA TEEGEN is a trained master gardener and chef. She worked in politics and the nonprofi t sector before pursuing her lifelong love of gardening and cooking. She lives in Los Angeles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rodale Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1605295175
• ISBN 13: 9781605295176
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192