New Kitchen Garden

by Anna Pavord

Book Overview

"To Vanessa," runs the dedication to Anna Pavord's yardstick manual of creative kitchen gardening, "who planted a weed garden." None of your boring rows of antediluvian cabbages here, then: Pavord's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789404354
• ISBN13: 9780789404350
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.2" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Like a good kitchen garden, this book is as useful as it is beautiful.

Inspiring illustrations of various styles of kitchen gardens, with a wealth of information on companion planting, best varieties for different climates and soils, timing for succession planting, etc.

Happy with purchase

I was happy with the condition of the book and received it in very good time.

A feast for the Eye and Mind, and eventually stomach

I received this book as a gift several years ago and I look at it for information and ideas every year. I have two other kitchen garden books but this one is the best. It is a gorgeous book full color with fantastic photos and ideas for every kind of space including tiny city balconies (perhaps the previous reviewer missed this chapter). Most importantly I have created some fantastic vegetable gardens using some of the ideas in this book over the years. My neighbors come over and take pictures.

Practical information abounds

I ordered this book from the library and after reading it, felt this was one I simply had to buy. Out of the seven "kitchen garden" books I've read or browsed recently, this one not only inspires with photos and drawings, but also provides extensive information on the variety of vegetables available today by seed and how to grow and harvest them. Then it goes one step further and provides suggestions on how to prepare them. As a seasoned flower gardener just now dipping my toes into the world of vegetable gardening, I found this particular book does the best job of guiding the new kitchen gardener from start (planning the garden) to finish (eating your results).

Wonderful book

This is my favorite gardening book. I put in a vegetable garden this year and THIS book was the basis of my handiwork. Beauty and bountiful harvests are the result of hard work. This book was an inspiration for me.