Groundbreaking Food Gardens: 73 Plans That Will Change the Way You Grow Your Garden

Nikki Jabbour and seventy-two of her closest garden-geek friends hang out for a Sunday brunch…and a book is born.

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If you ’ve been anywhere near the gardening section of any book store , then you have surely seen ( or already own ) Niki Jabbour ’s popular bookThe Year Round Vegetable Gardener(Storey , 2011 ) . Or perhaps you ’re a earnest auditor of her radio show , The Weekend Gardener . Whether you ’re already a fan ( or are about to become one ) , you ’re in for a treat because Niki has done it again .

This time it looks as if she invited seventy - two of her closest friends over for Sunday brunch and gathered up some of the horticulture intellection that shed out over their orange juice and Gallic toast . Only we ’re somewhat certain that Niki pulled the honest-to-goodness swap - a - roo with the OJ and replaced it with mimosas . How else could she get every single one of these ( seventy - two ) garden geeks to also chalk out out designs on the back of the napkins ?

In any caseGroundbreaking Food Gardens : 73 architectural plan That Will Change the Way You Grow Your Garden(Storey , 2014 ) isloadedwith innovational idea and garden aspiration that includes wimp , bees , bugs , microbes , pollinators , square , forget me drug , knots , wildlife , fry , sun , shade , front yards , backyard , hillsides , wall , rooftops , summer , winter , upcycle , recycle , communities , trucks , gutters , cocktail ( booze , ya’ll ) — and everything in between .

Full disclosure : yours truly just happens to have a garden plan inside these pages . However , I am fully disposed to copy Jessie Bloom ’s “ Eggs & Everything ” garden purpose down to the T bar trellis system for Chuck Berry . I ’m always looking for great path to keep my hensnearmy veggie gardens , yetoutof them because my feathered friends — no matter how adorably dressed — also happen to be garden - cover beasts .

Of course , I probably wo n’t even seek to resist Teresa O ’ Connor ’s “ Founding Father ’s Garden ” plan . They ’re stark with heritage diversity that were grown in Thomas Jefferson ’s Monticello and George Washington ’s Mount Vernon gardens .

Being of Italian decent , I see no point in even pretending to resist Doug Oster ’s “ Italian Heritage Garden ” design . A duad of things in Doug ’s plan really make it a resist out for me : the bee hive ( which I obtain oh - so - necessary inanygarden ) and the alone Lycopersicon esculentum staking technique that he learned in Italy .

Oh wait ! I ca n’t forget to make way for “ Garden Squares for shaver ” by Karen Liebreich and Jutta Wagner . You know , just for the grand baby …

Groundbreaking Food Gardens : 73 design That Will commute the Way You develop Your Garden

Niki Jabbour

263 page

Storey Publishing

$ 19.95

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