This Taylor's Guide sorts out the best heirloom vegetables and tells readers where to find them. These varieties, at least fifty years old, have usually been preserved by regional, ethnic, or family groups, although some, like Golden Bantam corn, are still widely popular today.
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"Taylor's Guides are the best, most authoritative guides on the market." Garden Design
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Benjamin A Watson is a contributor for Houghton Mifflin Company titles including: 'Taylor's Guide to Heirloom Vegetables'
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4.0 out of 5 stars
If you're into heirlooms, this is for your library,
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This review is from: Taylor's Guide to Heirloom Vegetables: A Complete Guide to the Best Historic and Ethnic Varieties (Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides) (Paperback)
With over 200 color photos (which is very good) and descriptions and history on over 500 varieties of heirloom vegetables, it's a good one to have on hand. Also includes brief sections on how grow, seed saving, pests, etc for each family of vegetable.
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Easy to Read, Lovely Photos,
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This review is from: Taylor's Guide to Heirloom Vegetables: A Complete Guide to the Best Historic and Ethnic Varieties (Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides) (Paperback)
As an organic gardener and lover of vintage, especially within my garden beds, I found this book most helpful. It gives just the amount of info needed, not too much to read, but crucial info even for the novice gardener. I like that it lists a few companies where one can purchase heirloom seeds and I found that most are still current despite the 1996 copyright date. The photos of the dry beans are especially lovely. Combine this book with Mel Bartholomew's Square Foot Gardening and Patricia Lanza's Lasagna Gardening and you will be set.
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Have you ever leafed through an old, pre-1940 seed catalog, perhaps while browsing through a good used bookstore? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
thin young plants, green shell stage, indeterminate plants, seaweed emulsion, last spring frost date, good crop rotation, indeterminate vines, plastic cloches, home garden variety, row fabric, mulch protection, globe onions, insecticidal soap spray, flattened globes, moistened sand, average garden soil, heirloom varieties, balanced organic fertilizer, seed trade, white midribs, bunching onions, floating row cover, good keeper, heirloom vegetables, conserve soil moisture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Seed Savers Exchange, South America, New York, United States, New Hampshire, Fearing Burr, North America, Harvest Pick, New England, Tomato Lycopersicon, Seed-Saving Basics, Harvest Cut, American Indians, Dry Bush Bean Phaseolus, Luther Burbank, Amaranth Amaranthus, Beet Beta, Field Beans, Garlic Allium, Melon Cucumis, New Mexico, New World, West Indies, Winter Cucurbita, All-America Selection New!
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Have you ever leafed through an old, pre-1940 seed catalog, perhaps while browsing through a good used bookstore? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
thin young plants, green shell stage, indeterminate plants, seaweed emulsion, last spring frost date, good crop rotation, indeterminate vines, plastic cloches, home garden variety, row fabric, mulch protection, globe onions, insecticidal soap spray, flattened globes, moistened sand, average garden soil, heirloom varieties, balanced organic fertilizer, seed trade, white midribs, bunching onions, floating row cover, good keeper, heirloom vegetables, conserve soil moisture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Seed Savers Exchange, South America, New York, United States, New Hampshire, Fearing Burr, North America, Harvest Pick, New England, Tomato Lycopersicon, Seed-Saving Basics, Harvest Cut, American Indians, Dry Bush Bean Phaseolus, Luther Burbank, Amaranth Amaranthus, Beet Beta, Field Beans, Garlic Allium, Melon Cucumis, New Mexico, New World, West Indies, Winter Cucurbita, All-America Selection New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Plants, Man and Life by Edgar Anderson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Chilies to Chocolate: Food the Americas Gave the World by Nelson Foster in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Kitchen Garden: A Passionate Gardener's Comprehensive Guide To Growing Good Things to Eat by Sylvia Thompson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Vegetable Garden by M. Vilmorin-Andrieux in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals by Peter J. Ucko in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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