Niki Jabbour's Veggie Garden Remix: 224 New Plants to Shake Up Your Garden and Add Variety, Flavor, and Fun

by Niki Jabbour

Overview

2019 American Horticultural Society Book Award Winner
2019 GardenComm Media Awards Gold Medal Winner

Best-selling author Niki Jabbour invites you to shake up your vegetable garden with an intriguing array of 224 plants from around the world. With her lively “Like this? Then try this!” approach, Jabbour encourages you to start with what you know and expand your repertoire to try related plants, many of which are delicacies in other cultures. Jabbour presents detailed growing information for each plant, along with fun facts and plant history. Be prepared to have your mind expanded and catch Jabbour’s contagious enthusiasm for experimentation and fun in the garden.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612126708
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	02/06/2018
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	1,061,567
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.70(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

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

Editorial Reviews

11/20/2017
Gardener Jabbour (The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener) enthusiastically encourages readers to explore international vegetable and herb varieties as she tours her own “global” garden that contains crops from India, Italy, Lebanon, and Mexico, among other places. She organizes her book into a “if you like this, try... ” structure, so cabbage lovers, for instance, are encouraged to try komatsuna, an Asian green that tastes similar to cabbage with mustard overtones, and people who are fond of cucumbers are introduced to cucamelons, which have the crisp and crunchy taste as cucumbers plus a citrus twist. For each new variety, the book includes directions for growing and eating and, importantly, a paragraph selling readers on the variety. “Have I got the broccoli for you!” Jabbour jokes while introducing Piracicaba broccoli. Loaded with lush photos throughout, this attractive book will appeal to gardeners and gourmands alike. Color photos. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

Read this book, have a notepad ready, and prepare for a new, international gardening experience. It’s how we grow.” — Country Gardens 

“You’ll find acres of inspiration for your spring potager fantasies in this guide.” — Modern Farmer

“A wonderful surprise of a book. Jabbour shakes up gardeners’ assumptions on how our “conventional” vegetables should look or taste—from tomatoes to potatoes, onions to summer squash.” — Booklist

“Loaded with lush photos throughout, this attractive book will appeal to gardeners and gourmands alike.” — Publishers Weekly

“If I could poke around one person’s garden for amazing vegetable combinations, it would be Niki Jabbour’s. This book lets me do just that! Here’s a great way to get out of the ‘same-old same-old’ gardening rut and tempt your palate!” — Carson Arthur, HGTV and Cityline outdoor lifestyle expert

“Niki Jabbour takes us on a global romp filled with peculiar, fun, and delicious vegetable varieties. Inspired by the gorgeous, vibrant photography and Niki’s thoughtful plant descriptions and growing advice, I’m ready to place my seed order!” — Jessica Walliser, horticulturist and author of Container Gardening Complete and Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden

“The perfect book for any gardener seeking new and exciting edible options to keep it fresh and interesting. Thank you, Niki Jabbour!” — Joe Lamp’l, founder of joegardener.com and creator/host of PBS’s Growing a Greener World

“Creative vegetable gardeners rejoice! Niki Jabbour’s new book will shake up your salads and revolutionize your raised beds. Stunning photos and practical growing tips make vegetable gardening so approachable that anyone can grow magenta spreen, celtuce, asparagus peas, and more!” — Stephanie Rose, award-winning author of Garden Made and creator of the blog GardenTherapy.ca

“One of the most powerful ways to build a positive relationship with food is to grow your own. With this book you’ll learn proven techniques, celebrate hard work, develop patience, and ultimately harvest joy.” — Chef Michael Smith, host of Food Network Canada’s Chef at Home and Chef Abroad

“Niki Jabbour opens the door of infinite possibility for gardeners looking to expand into more diverse and exotic vegetable varieties. With a creative approach, she introduces you to a wide variety of plants and gardening techniques and gives you the confidence to take your vegetable garden to the next level.” — Mark and Ben Cullen, of MarkCullen.com: 10,000 Gardening Questions Answered

“I love trying new-to-me veggies in my raised beds, and this fresh, vibrant resource gives me bushels of interesting new options.” — Tara Nolan, author of Raised Bed Revolution
 

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