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The Beginner's Guide to Growing Heirloom Vegetables
The 100 Easiest-to-Grow, Tastiest Vegetables for Your Garden
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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. Plant profiles include color photographs, flavor notes, and growing tips — everything beginning gardeners need to successfully grow a variety of heirloom vegetables.
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The beautiful photography really brings to life the succulent, juicy fruit and vegetables featured in the book... This book should really encourage more to try heirloom vegetables and appreciate the difference in flavor and textures you can get compared to more common varieties.
Heirloom expert Marie Ianotti brings us some fascinating stories, but more importantly, she tells us which varieties to grow for the best flavour and how to cultivate each one.
The book is user-friendly and well organised ... the cultural instructions are simple and concise, with enough basic facts to inform, not intimidate the novice ... With its no-nonsense instructions, this book would be of interest to anyone who is just discovering heirloom vegetables or who simply enjoys being inspired by a book with gorgeous photographs written by an enthusiast.
...highlights some fascinating stories behind unusual vegetables and which to grow for the best flavour.
