Groundbreaking Food Gardens: 73 Plans That Will Change the Way You Grow Your Garden

by Niki Jabbour

Overview

Follow your zany muse and get creative with your vegetable garden. Niki Jabbour brings you 73 novel and inspiring food garden designs that include a cocktail garden featuring all the ingredients for your favorite drinks, a spicy retreat comprising 24 varieties of chile peppers, and a garden that’s devoted to supplying year-round salad greens. Created by celebrated gardeners, each unique design is accompanied by both plant lists and charming anecdotes. This fully illustrated collection glitters with off-beat personality and quirkiness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612120614
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	03/25/2014
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	537,186
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Niki Jabbour is the award-winning author of Growing Under Cover, Niki Jabbour’s Veggie Garden Remix, The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener, and Groundbreaking Food Gardens. Her work is found in Fine Gardening, Garden Making, Birds & Blooms, Horticulture, and other publications, and she speaks widely on food gardening at events and shows across North America. She has been a radio host since 2006. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and can be found online at SavvyGardening.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction

About the Contributors

Urban Farmscape - Patti Marie Travioli

Culinary Herbs for Beginners - Susan Appleget Hurst

Pollinator-Friendly Raised Bed - Paul Zammit

Beautiful Balcony Edibles - Andrea Bellamy

Southern-Style Backyard Farm - Carolyn Binder

Edibles on a Patio - Donna Balzer

American Potager - Jennifer R. Bartley

Eggs & Everything - Jessi Bloom

Fig-Pig Patio - Steven Biggs

Critter Control - Karen Chapman

Eat Your Yard - Nan K. Chase

Partially Shaded Vegetables - Marjorie Harris

Sidebar: Windy City Harvest 

Small Space Beds - The Chicago Botanic Garden

The Circle of Life - Emma Cooper

Sunburst Veggie Garden - Shawna Coronado

Sidebar: Living Walls

Formal Herb Garden - Kate Copsey

Chile Lover's Garden - Dave DeWitt

Starter Kitchen Garden - Roger Doiron

Sidebar: Lasagna Gardening 

Formal Kitchen Garden - Ellen Ecker Ogden

Grocery Garden - Jenks Farmer

Backyard Orchard - Colby Eierman

Front-Yard Foraging - Sarah Elton

Canner's Garden - Daniel Gasteiger

Slow-Food Garden - Laura Henderson

Power Foods - Dan Jason

Heirloom Sampler - Marie Iannotti

Wildlife-Friendly Garden - Tammi Hartung

Hanging Gutters - Jayme Jenkins

Modern Truck Garden - Leslie Land

Vintage Victory Garden - Lamanda Joy

Asian Vegetables - Wendy Kiang-Spray

Garden Squares for Kids - Karen Liebreich and Jutta Wagner

Urban Homestead - Theresa Loe

Teaming with Microbes - Jeff Lowenfels

Urban Shade Garden - Kathy Martin

Edible Knot Garden - Karen Atkins

Vertical Vegetables - Rhonda Massingham Hart

Culinary Courtyard - Rachel Mathews

Concrete & Steel Garden - Laura Mathews

Front-Yard Suburban Farm - Chris McLaughlin

Southern Spring Garden - Dee Nash

Founding Fathers Garden - Teresa O'Connor

Terraced Hillside - Barbara Pleasant

Edible Hedge - Charlie Nardozzi

Italian Heritage Garden - Doug Oster

Community Plot - Michael Nolan

Edible Cutting Garden - Debra Prinzing

Biodynamic Farm - Mac Mead

Garlic Sampler - Liz Primeau

Rooftop Farm - Colin McCrate and Hilary Dahl

Gourmet Containers - Renee Shepherd and Beth Benjamin

Cocktail Garden - Amy Stewart and Susan Morrison

Chicago Hot-Dog Garden - Amanda Thomsen

Upcycled Edible Patio - Jean Ann Van Krevelen

Pallet Garden - Joe Lamp'l

"Good Bug" Garden - Jessica Walliser

Elizabethan Garden - Stephen Westcott-Gratton

Sidebar: An Easy Way to Expand Your Existing Garden

Forager's Garden - Ellen Zachos

Water-Wise Herbs & More - Nan Sterman

Beat the Grocery Bill - Mark Cullen

Fall & Winter Vegetables - Niki Jabbour

52 Weeks of Salad - Michelle Chapman

Edible School Garden - Benjamin Eichorn

Backyard Brewer's - Rebecca Kneen

OTTO Pizza Garden - Toby Adams and Annie Novak

Year-Round Front-Yard Garden - Rebecca Sweet

Edible Campus - Vikram Bhatt

Backyard Beekeeper's Garden - Kenny Point

Best-Tasting Tomatoes - Craig LeHoullier

Resources

Plant List

Index

Editorial Reviews

03/17/2014
Although not as pioneering as the title implies, this collection provides plenty of food for thought, and hopefully for the table too. Jabbour (The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener) has engaged an impressive array of master gardeners; prize-winning bloggers; prominent authors and media personalities; and gardening advisors and experimenters to offer a tasting menu of garden plans suitable for the palate of just about anyone. The designs range from novelty and theme gardens such as Amanda Thomsen’s weiner-shaped Chicago Hot Dog Garden—featuring Windy City condiments: tomatoes, onions, hot peppers, dill, mustard, celery, and poppy seeds—to functional plans for attracting wildlife or beneficial insects. Historical plots include LaManda Joy’s Vintage Victory and Stephen Westcott-Gratton’s Elizabethan Gardens while other plans focus on practical considerations: using rooftop space, featuring shade-tolerant vegetables, or minimizing water. Microlivestock—chickens, bees, and soil microbes—make their appearances too. Instruction are minimal, which is adequate for the more straightforward plans, but readers attempting complex gardening concepts such as Mac Mead’s Biodynamic Farm may need to consult more detailed sources. Although gardeners’ locations are included in their bios, regional and hardiness zone information is missing from the plans themselves, which is likely to annoy experienced gardeners and may lead some novices astray. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

★ 12/01/2016
Canadian Jabbour (host, The Weekend Gardener) invited North American and UK garden communicators, master gardeners, and professional horticulturists to share unique, themed edible gardens for almost every taste. (LJ 6/1/14)

Library Journal