Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0789441195
Manufacturer: DK ADULT
Average Customer Review: 
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Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com:
“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 vision of a “new kitchen garden” is a flexible contemporary version of that long-vanished institution, the potager, a garden where special vegetables were grown with flowering plants in arrangements that were both productive and pleasing to the eye. Pavord’s contemporary spins on the theme include an alcoholic hedge and a city larder, but traditional designs get a look-in, too; even the oh-so-precious formal herb garden receives a much-needed fillip of imagination and color.
Pavord traces the historical accidents that set vegetables off from flowering plants, to the detriment of both, in an introduction full of the “buttery bonus” of artichokes and the “elegiac performance of a mature pear.” Past the verbiage lie row upon row of well-tended plant lists; instructions on planting, growing, harvesting, and storing; recommended cultivars; and homely recipes to feed that Laura Ashley moment. DK Living’s surgical house layout has set many a set of teeth on edge in the past, but there’s no denying its clarity and usefulness in a book so rich in information and advice.
For Pavord, growing food is our last and best connection to the earth. Evoking the paradisal gardens of a time when growing food meant survival, Pavord assures the reader that “there is no reason why you too should not be in that same state of delicious fluctuation.” And you can’t say anything fairer than that. –Simon Ings, Amazon.co.uk
Book Description:
The New Kitchen Garden — a fully illustrated guide to creating fruit and vegetable gardens that are both decorative and productive.
Customer Reviews
A feast for the Eye and Mind, and eventually stomach by Alison J. Corcoran
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 by Constance Rae
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).
Profusion Equals Paradisal Gardens by Southern Review
Anna Pavord is a celebrated Great Britain gardening author and editor. I share her philosophy that order coupled with profusion, is the hallmark of the best kitchen gardens. She believes that there is no reason for vegetables and fruits to provide any less drama in the garden than flowers.
This book offers advice on basic cultivation techniques, including sowing and thinning, crop rotation, and growing in greenhouses. The book presents more than 450 attractive color photographs, along with very well illustrated planting designs from a sophisticated potager to a rustic mixed hedge.
Colorists will find the excellent photographs are a font of inspiration, and will take note of her adroit ability to control shape, form, color, and textures to produce stunningly decorative kitchen gardens. One example is a large formal herb garden in Kinoith, Ireland. Massive buttresses of purple-leaved sage prop up a showy cardoon, and mounds of nasturtiums cavort at the feet of a monumental stand of lovage.
She displays designs that are not only decorative, but are indispensable to the avid cook. This was a discount table find for which I am greatly pleased to own and recommend to others as a valuable source of inspiration. It is a most delightful book.
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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.
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