75 Exciting Vegetables for Your Garden

By Jack Staub format: hardcover publication: September 2008 ISBN: 9781586852504

Price $27.95 Quantity This item is in stock and usually ships within 24 hours.

Seventy-five eminently beautiful fruits and vegetables are profiled in this charming new book by expert gardener and garden designer Jack Staub. Discover produce you'll likely not see in the local supermarket, including the Asparagus Bean, Green Zebra Tomato, Prescott Fond Blanc Melon, Purple Sprouting Broccoli, True Lemon Cucumber, Turkish Orange Eggplant, and many more. Staub seeks not only to infuse America's backyard gardens with color and variety, but to enlighten and amuse with amiable text, surprising history, scraps of unexpected lore, and tidbits of culinary insight. Unique in content and tone, 75 Extraordinary Vegetables shares the history, evolution, and details about each vegetable, and then provides simple solutions for using them in the kitchen every day. Be they heirloom or hybrid, native or transplant, Staub presents seventy-five really superb vegetables in current culture that are as exciting for their physical beauty as they are for their taste.

1. Amaranth "Joseph's Coat" 2. Artichoke "Violetto de Romagna" 3. Asparagus Bean 4. Asparagus Pea 5. Australian Yellowleaf Lettuce 6. Broccoli "Romanesco" 7. Brussels Sprout "Rubine" 8. Bull's Blood Beet 9. Cabbage "Ruby Perfection" 10. Cabbage "Savoy Express" 11. Cardoon "Gigante" 12. Carrot "Thumbelina" 13. Cauliflower "Violetta di Sicilia" 14. Cayenne Pepper 15. Celeriac 16. Chard "Bright Lights" 17. Chinese Rat Tail Radish 18. Chiogga Beet 19. Crimson Forest Onion 20. D'Algers Melon 21. Dragon Tongue Bush Bean 22. Dwarf Blue Curled Scotch Kale 23. Early Purple Vienna Kohlrabi 24. Eggplant "Neon" 25. Egyptian Walking Onion 26. Elberta Peach Tomato 27. Fish Pepper 28. Tomato "German Red Strawberry" 29. Giant Chinese Red Mustard 30. Giant Red Celery 31. Golden Sweet Edible-Podded Pea 32. Green Zebra Tomato 33. Habanero Pepper 34. Hillbilly Tomato 35. Imperial Star Artichoke 36. Jarrahdale Pumpkin 37. Kale "Nero di Toscana" 38. Leek "Blue Solaize" 39. Lemon Drop Pepper 40. Lettuce "Forellenschluss" 41. Lollo Rossa Lettuce 42. Malabar Spinach 43. Melon "Queen Anne's Pocket" 44. Merlot Lettuce 45. Mizuna 46. Nutri-Red Carrot 47. Okra "Red Burgundy" 48. Orach "Crimson Plume" 49. Osterei Eggplant 50. Painted Serpent Cucumber 51. Prescott Fond Blanc Melon 52. Pumpkin "Baby Boo" 53. Purple Calabash Tomato 54. Purple Sprouting Broccoli 55. Radish "Misato Rose" 56. Redbor Kale 57. Rhubarb Chard 58. Royal Oakleaf Lettuce 59. Runner Bean "Painted Lady" 60. Runner Bean "Sun Bright" 61. Sea Kale 62. Squash "Ronde de Nice" 63. Sorrel "Silver Shield" 64. Sunburst Squash 65. Sweet Million Tomato 66. Tiger Tom Tomato 67. Trifetti Pepper 68. True Lemon Cucumber 69. Turkish Orange Eggplant 70. Watermelon "Moon & Stars" 71. West Indian Burr Gherkin 72. Windsor Broad Bean 73. Wood's Prolific Bush Scallop 74. Yellowstone Carrot 75. Zebra Hybrid Eggplant

If you are coming into one of our stores, we suggest that you confirm that the book you want is in stock by emailing the location nearest you: Grant Park, Polo Park, Saskatoon, or by phoning the location nearest you.

0 comments on this item