The Ornamental Vegetable Garden

The Ornamental Vegetable Garden
Author: Diana Anthony
Publisher: Warwick House Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Edible landscaping
ISBN: 9781894020558

Louis the XIV commissioned a landscape gardener to design the Potager de Roi at Versailles. Many of the fruit and vegetable pruning systems developed by this gardener are still in use today. This beautiful book illustrates the design and planting of the ornamental vegetable garden, where aesthetics and practicality combine to create edible gardens.

Ornamental Vegetable Gardening

Ornamental Vegetable Gardening
Author: Sally Gregson
Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Plants, Ornamental
ISBN: 9781847971173

"Demystifies growing vegetables and explains how a vegetable garden can be as beautiful to look at as it is productive, healthy, and economic to use." -- Back cover.

Beautiful American Vegetable Gardens

Beautiful American Vegetable Gardens
Author: Mary Tonetti Dorra
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1997
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

Today's hottest horticultural trend is vegetable gardening--and the newest crop of vegetable gardens is a treat for the eye as well as the palate. The proof is evident on every page of the first full-color celebration of the ornamental vegetable gardens of America. 250 full-color photos. Size C. 192 pp. Author tour & national publicity. 20,000 print.

The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook

The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook
Author: Susan Mulvihill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2021-04-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0760370060

Identify and control dozens of common vegetable garden pests quickly and organically with the pest profiles and expert advice found in The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook.

The Beautiful Edible Garden

The Beautiful Edible Garden
Author: Leslie Bennett
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2013-02-26
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1607742330

A stylish, beautifully photographed guide to artfully incorporating organic vegetables, fruits, and herbs into an attractive modern garden design. We’ve all seen the vegetable garden overflowing with corn, tomatoes, and zucchini that looks good for a short time, but then quickly turns straggly and unattractive (usually right before friends show up for a backyard barbecue). If you want to grow food but you don’t want your yard to look like a farm, what can you do? The Beautiful Edible Garden shares how to not only grow organic fruits and vegetables, but also make your garden a place of year-round beauty that is appealing, enjoyable, and fits your personal style. Written by a landscape design team that specializes in artfully blending edibles and ornamentals together, The Beautiful Edible Garden shows that it’s possible for gardeners of all levels to reap the best of both worlds. Featuring a fresh approach to garden design, glorious photographs, and ideas for a range of spaces—from large yards to tiny patios—this guide is perfect for anyone who wants a gorgeous and productive garden.

The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener

The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener
Author: Niki Jabbour
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2011-12-14
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1603427856

Even in winter’s coldest months you can harvest fresh, delicious produce. Drawing on insights gained from years of growing vegetables in Nova Scotia, Niki Jabbour shares her simple techniques for gardening throughout the year. Learn how to select the best varieties for each season, the art of succession planting, and how to build inexpensive structures to protect your crops from the elements. No matter where you live, you’ll soon enjoy a thriving vegetable garden year-round.

Texas Organic Vegetable Gardening

Texas Organic Vegetable Gardening
Author: Howard Garrett
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Total Pages: 233
Release: 1998-07-25
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1589794818

This book shows you how to have healthy soil and recommends environmentally safe products and even some homemade remedies to control pests and diseases in your garden. It describes more than 100 food plants and gives specific information on the growth habits, culture, harvest, and storage of each.

The Ornamental Kitchen Garden

The Ornamental Kitchen Garden
Author: Janet W. Macdonald
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1994
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Have a beautiful garden that's as pleasing to the eye as it is to the stomach! A glorious gallery of thriving ornamental kitchen gardens, Will inspire beginning and avid gardeners to grow produce in decorative patterns. All the secrets of success are revealed -- how to use color, texture and form; make the most of viewpoints and perspective; introduce unusual crops; and more.

Growing the Midwest Garden

Growing the Midwest Garden
Author: Edward Lyon
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2016-04-12
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1604696982

Plant selection and garden style are deeply influenced by where we are gardening. To successfully grow a range of beautiful ornamental plants, every gardener has to know the specifics of the region’s climate, soil, and geography. Growing the Midwest Garden, by Edward Lyon, the director of Wisconsin’s Allen Centennial Gardens, offers an enthusiastic and comprehensive approach to ornamental gardening in the heartland. This guide features in-depth chapters on climate, soil, pests, and maintenance, along with plant profiles of the best perennials, annuals, trees, shrubs, and bulbs.

Mediterranean Kitchen Garden

Mediterranean Kitchen Garden
Author: Mariano Bueno
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Fruit-culture
ISBN: 9780711230644

Now that growing your own food is back in fashion — for health, financial, and environmental reasons — Mariano Bueno gives full practical details on how to grow vegetables alongside fruit trees and a variety of aromatic, medicinal and ornamental plants and herbs. He gives the individual requirements of common garden vegetables and popular fruit trees and provides a calendar that describes how to care for the kitchen garden through the gardening year. Explaining how to meet the particular challenges of growing edible plants in a hot, dry climate, with advice on matters such as irrigation, the book will be useful for those who live in a Mediterranean area or find themselves gardening in ever-hotter, dry climates. But it is also abundant in expertise on gardening in other climatic conditions, too, and is available here to an English-speaking audience for the first time.