Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guide to Kitchen Gardens: How to Create a Beautiful and Functional Culinary Garden (Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides (Houghton Mifflin)) [Paperback]

Cathy Wilkinson Barash (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 6, 1998 | Series: Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides (Houghton Mifflin)

For beauty and practicality, nothing can equal the popular kitchen garden, with its combination of ornamental and edible plants.

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"Taylor's Guides are the best, most authoritative guides on the market." Garden Design

About the Author

Cathy Wilkinson Barash is the author of edible Flowers (1993) and The Evening Garden (1993). She lives in Des Moines, Iowa, and lectures all over the country.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (May 6, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0395827493
• ISBN-13: 978-0395827499
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #340,203 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Cathy Wilkinson Barash was born on Long Island, New York in 1949 and spent much of her life there. She is a life-long organic gardener. From childhood she has held firm a belief in economy of space and time in the garden mainly by planting edibles among ornamentals, "so many fruits, vegetables, and herbs are beautiful themselves"--instead of relegating them to the back 40. Anne Raver of The New York Times was the first to call her a "gourmet horticulturist," as she practices edible landscaping--specializing in edible flowers--and is a gourmet cook.

A freelance photographer, writer, designer, and professional speaker, Cathy is best known as the author of "Edible Flowers from Garden to Palate," which Martha Stewart described as "very excellent." Published in 1993, "Edible Flowers" was nominated for a Julia Child Cookbook Award and garnered an Award of Excellence from the Garden Writers Association.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Insipiring and Practical, December 11, 2007

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This review is from: Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guide to Kitchen Gardens: How to Create a Beautiful and Functional Culinary Garden (Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides (Houghton Mifflin)) (Paperback)

Highly recommended for anyone wanting to start a kitchen garden that is to be a beautiful & enjoyed part of the garden. This book starts with a brief summary of the history of kitchen gardens, and the basics of gardening, but does not waste it's time in a lengthy discussion in either of those topics. Rather, it quickly moves on to talk about fundamental design principles in developing an beautiful & functional vege patch, with detailed inclusions on plant suggestions for various design needs. It has lots of great ideas, including companion flower planting and kitchen plants suitable for a night garden. The example gardens are not enormous and historical gardens that cannot be repeated in the suburban garden, but instead are lovely, inspiring gardens that have been created in someone else's backyard. An inspiring and practical book.