Award-winning author Niki Jabbour introduces you to more than 200 curious varieties of veggies from around the world that will expand your garden in exciting and delicious ways. Start with familiar favorites like broccoli, tomatoes, or cucumbers, then let your imagination go wild with choices like cucamelons, Cape gooseberries, and 'Piracicaba" broccoli. Make your vegetable garden a treasure trove of flavors!
Award-winning author Niki Jabbour introduces you to more than 200 curious varieties of veggies from around the world that will expand your garden in exciting and delicious ways. Start with familiar favorites like broccoli, tomatoes, or cucumbers, then let your imagination go wild with choices like cucamelons, Cape gooseberries, and 'Piracicaba" broccoli. Make your vegetable garden a treasure trove of flavors!
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.
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Introduction Like tomatoes? Try ground cherries, Cape gooseberries, tomatillos Bonus: Unusual tomato varieties Like cucumbers? Try cucamelons, West Indian burr gherkins, cucumber melons Bonus: Unusual cucumber varieties Like summer squash? Try bottle gourds, snake gourds, luffa gourds Bonus: Unusual summer squash varieties Like snap beans? Try yard-long beans, hyacinth beans, edamame, chickpeas, daylily buds Bonus: Unusual snap bean varieties Like arugula? Try mizuna, mustard, Italian dandelions, turnip greens Like lettuce? Try celtuce, minutina, Tokyo bekana, mache Like asparagus? Try hosta shoots, asparagus peas Like cabbage? Try Chinese cabbage, yu choy sum, komatsuna Bonus: Unusual cabbage varieties Like broccoli? Try 'Spigariello liscia', 'Piracicaba', Romanesco, gai lan, sea kale, huauzontle Like potatoes? Try Jerusalem artichokes, groundnuts, Chinese artichokes, daylily tubers, dahlia tubers Bonus: Unusual potato varieties Like spring radishes? Try daikons, black Spanish radishes Bonus: Unusual radish varieties Like bulb onions? Try Japanese bunching onions, Egyptian walking onions Bonus: Unusual bulb onion varieties Like parsnips? Try Hamburg parsley Want more options? Grow these unusual varieties of peppers, winter squash, peas, eggplants, kale, carrots, beets, and turnips Nine global herbs you need to know Acknowledgments Photography credits Index
