The Farmer's Wife Guide To Growing A Great Garden And Eating From It, Too!: Storing, Freezing, and Cooking Your Own Vegetables [Hardcover]

Barbara Doyen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 3, 2002

A delightfully original package, this book gives advice on growing your favorite vegetables, and then provides ample instructions on how to prepare or preserve the results.

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Why Garden?

Homegrown vegetables taste much better than anything you can buy because they are fresh—you can harvest them at their peak ripeness and eat them within minutes. Plus, you can grow as many special varieties of your favorite vegetables as you like, types not available in stores. Growing your own means controlling exactly what kinds of pesticides or other additives go into your produce. Plus, you can save a lot of money.

Within The Farmer’s Wife’s Guide to Growing a Great Garden and Eating From it, Too!, Barbara Doyen, a real farmer’s wife, gives detailed instruction for growing a wide variety of delicious vegetables, along with terrific recipes. From the domestic to the exotic, the Farmer’s Wife’s expertise is always thoroughly explained and calculated to bring out the best in whatever plant she is working with.

Growing, Storing, Freezing and Cooking Instructions, + 200 Recipes and Serving Ideas for:

Asparagus · Beans · Beets · Broccoli · Brussels Sprouts · Cabbage Carrots · Cauliflower · Corn · Cucumbers · Eggplant · Kale Kohlrabi · Lettuce · Okra · Onion · Parsnips · Peas · Peppers Potatoes · Pumpkin · Radishes · Soybeans Spinach · Summer Squash Winter Squash · Sweet Potatoes · Swiss Chard · Tomatoes · Zucchini

About the Author

Barbara Doyen

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: M.Evans & Company (July 3, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0871319748
• ISBN-13: 978-0871319746
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #592,519 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book for All Gardeners!! Makes it fun and easy!, August 12, 2003

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Dana Varland (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Farmer's Wife Guide To Growing A Great Garden And Eating From It, Too!: Storing, Freezing, and Cooking Your Own Vegetables (Hardcover)

I am a 25 yr. old gardener. This is my 2nd year in a community garden and
I love it. This book is absolutely perfect!!! I wish I would have had it
last year. My garden is 10 times more productive and fun! The book gives clear descriptions of how to plant, harvest, store and enjoy a large variety of vegetables. The recipe ideas are great too! It makes gardening fun and easy!

This book is such a great gift to society. I recommend it to all of my friends!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best gardening book!, June 28, 2005

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love books (Ohio) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Farmer's Wife Guide To Growing A Great Garden And Eating From It, Too!: Storing, Freezing, and Cooking Your Own Vegetables (Hardcover)

I loved this book and refer to it over and over. I'm fairly new at gardening and this book has very easy to understand instructions and suggestions that are priceless. Everything she says in this book has come true and has helped me to not only love gardening but enjoy the satisfaction of growing my own food and eating it too! Some of her recipes are traditional and some are unique. My husband who is a farmer and knows all about raising crops, freezing, canning, etc loves the book as well! He's not a reader and he recommends the book to anyone. I, on the other hand am a city girl and knew nothing until I met my husband. Both ends of the spectrum and this book gets a 2 thumbs up! I can't wait to purchase her guide book for fruits and start planting fruits next year!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent investment for the home gardener, June 23, 2004

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PS Tabar (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Farmer's Wife Guide To Growing A Great Garden And Eating From It, Too!: Storing, Freezing, and Cooking Your Own Vegetables (Hardcover)

Finally--a gardening book aranged the way home gardeners think! Includes every step from soil to sprouting to tending and harevsting (and recipe ideas too!) for various types of veggies. All the author needs to do is add a chapter on saving harvested seeds, and it'll become the absolute home gardener's "Bible."