Grow Something Different to Eat: Weird and wonderful heirloom fruits and vegetables for your garden

Grow Something Different to Eat: Weird and wonderful heirloom fruits and vegetables for your garden

by Matthew Biggs
Grow Something Different to Eat: Weird and wonderful heirloom fruits and vegetables for your garden

Grow Something Different to Eat: Weird and wonderful heirloom fruits and vegetables for your garden

by Matthew Biggs

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Overview

Discover more than 50 out-of-the-ordinary edibles, from cucamelons to strawberry popcorn, in this seed-to-plate guide that inspires you to cultivate amazing new fruit and vegetable crops.

Whether you're a beginner and determined to make the most of limited space with a truly unique and heirloom harvest, or a seasoned grower looking to spice up your cooking with gourmet flavors, the step-by-step instructions give you the confidence to grow some unusually tasty crops. Choose from fruiting vegetables such as orange eggplants and hyacinth beans, salad greens such as fiddlehead ferns and sushi hostas, grains such as quinoa and chia, and luscious fruits such as honeyberries and white strawberries. All plants can be started indoors and transplanted, grown outdoors in the garden, or kept as houseplants. With versatile gardening advice for growing in a variety of spaces and situations, plus cooking suggestions and preserving options, a weird and wonderful harvest is guaranteed.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781465464293
Publisher: DK
Publication date: 02/27/2018
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 1,132,879
Product dimensions: 7.60(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Having trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, Matthew Biggs is affectionately known in Britain as the People's Gardener. He is a writer, lecturer, and television personality and the author of several books, including The Complete Book of Vegetables. He is best known in the UK for being a regular panelist on the BBC Gardeners' Question Time radio show.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Tips and techniques for growing 8

Choose your crops 14

Fruiting vegetables

Snake gourd 22

Turkish orange eggplant 26

Hyacinth beans 30

Chickpeas 34

Asparagus peas 38

Salad vegetables

Cucamelons 44

Achocha 48

Spilanthes 50

Shiso 54

Rat-tail radish 56

Red orach 60

Society garlic 64

Leafy greens

Ostrich ferns 68

Sushi hosta 70

Strawberry spinach 72

Garland daisy 76

Callaloo 80

Walking-stick kale 82

Huauzontle 86

Salsola 88

Roots, bulbs, and shoots

Yacón 92

Camas 96

Dahlia yam 98

Mashua 102

Chinese artichoke 106

Oca 108

Taro 112

Jicama 116

Earth chestnut 118

Skirret 122

Elephant garlic 126

Daylilies 130

Grains and seeds

Amaranth 136

Quinoa 140

Chia 142

Sesame 146

Strawberry popcorn 148

Herbs and spices

Fenugreek 154

Wood sorrel 158

Fish mint 162

Water celery 164

Turmeric 166

Wasabi 170

Japanese ginger 174

Tea 178

Sweetleaf 180

Meadowsweet 182

Fruit

Kiwiberry 186

Finger lime 188

Chilean guava 190

Honeyberry 194

Fuchsia berry 196

Cape gooseberry 198

Goji berry 202

Chokeberry 204

Hardy passion fruit 206

Oregon grape 210

White alpine strawberry 212

Resources

Index 216

Suppliers 222

Acknowledgments 223

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