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Follow your zany muse and get creative with your vegetable garden. Niki Jabbour brings you 73 novel and inspiring food garden designs that include a cocktail garden featuring all the ingredients for your favorite drinks, a spicy retreat comprising 24 varieties of chile peppers, and a garden that’s devoted to supplying year-round salad greens. Created by celebrated gardeners, each unique design is accompanied by both plant lists and charming anecdotes. This fully illustrated collection glitters with off-beat personality and quirkiness.

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*Starred Review* As host of the call-in radio show The Weekend Gardener, Jabbour fields questions and receives tips from a wide assortment of produce-growing enthusiasts across the U.S. and Canada. In this lively and inspiring handbook, Jabbour puts these networking skills to good use by showcasing the food gardens of 73 master gardeners, from Seattle to London. Whether the allotted space is a balcony or shady backyard, someone has offered an inventive design for it, including notable horticulture experts such as New York Botanical Garden director Toby Adams, landscape designer Jessi Bloom, and best-selling botany author Amy Stewart. Among the most interesting are Stewart’s “cocktail” garden, providing herbs and fruits for mixed drinks, and a Chicago “hot-dog” garden, producing bread-seed poppies, mustard, and white onions. Every plan is accompanied by full-color illustrations, growing tips, and tweakable lists of crop possibilities. The abundance of creative advice here will help perk up the gardens of both novice and professional growers as well as satisfy the curiosity of anyone wondering what tickles the imaginations of veteran gardeners. --Carl Hays

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Niki Jabbour set out to discover how and why popular gardeners are growing vegetables, fruits, mushrooms, grains, and herbs. The enthusiastic answers and innovative garden plans she received are as rich and varied as the plants being grown.

Here are 73 garden designs from horticulturists, community gardeners, bloggers and print writers, television and radio hosts, and other professional gardeners. Contributions include design illustrations, plant lists, and stories explaining the personal quirks and motivations behind the garden. There's a plan to satisfy every craving.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 25, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 161212061X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1612120614
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.88 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.75 x 10 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #170,198 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #111 in Herb Gardening
- #169 in Vegetable Gardening
- #200 in Garden Design (Books)

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Niki Jabbour is the award-winning author of The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener (American Horticultural Society Book Award), Groundbreaking Food Gardens, and Niki Jabbour's Veggie Garden Remix (American Horticultural Society Book Award). Her latest book is Growing Under Cover (December 2020) and explores how simple garden covers can be used to grow more food and protect from bad weather, frost and pests like insects, deer, and rabbits.

She also writes for magazines across North America, including Fine Gardening, Birds & Blooms, Horticulture and Garden Gate. Niki is a popular speaker at shows, garden clubs, conservatories, and events, regularly appearing at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show in Seattle, Canada Blooms in Toronto, the Boston Flower Show, Mother Earth News Fairs, and more.

Niki is also a founding member of the award-winning website, SavvyGardening.com, which won the Gold Award for Best Gardening Website and Best Digital Media from the Association for Garden Communicators.

Niki is the long-time Host and Executive Producer of The Weekend Gardener with Niki Jabbour. It airs live Sundays, April through November, from 10 am to noon (Atlantic time) on News 95.7 FM in Halifax, 1310 News in Ottawa, and online at News957.com. In 2015, Niki won the prestigious Gold Award for Best On-Air Talent from the Association for Garden Communicators.

Niki is a passionate, year-round vegetable gardener who grows food in over 20 raised beds in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She uses simple cold frames, deep mulching and mini hoop tunnels to stretch her season into winter. She also grows a wide variety of global and unusual veggies, which is the topic of her award-winning book, Veggie Garden Remix. It combines fun and food and takes you on a journey around the world.

For more info on Niki, follow her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or visit www.SavvyGardening.com.

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Customers find this gardening book inspiring and full of ideas for different types of gardens, with great photos and diagrams that make it visually appealing. They appreciate its readability, with one customer noting its easy-to-read writing style.

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Customers find this gardening book inspiring and full of good ideas for their own gardens, with one customer particularly appreciating how it divides chapters based on gardening intent.

"...Was I ever wrong! Not only is the book chock full of fascinating, unique, and sometimes quirky plans, there are also plenty of great gardening..." Read more

"...page is interesting, every view of what a garden is (or can be) is valuable and the illustrations are great...." Read more

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Customers appreciate the book's ideas, describing it as chock-full of food garden concepts with many examples and different types of plans.

"...This is book full of inspiration for any gardeners who are looking to mix things up or just need a change from their usual ways of doing things...." Read more

"...This book has great creative ideas & solutions and covers a wide array of situations. Fun to look at and explore at your leisure...." Read more

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Customers appreciate the visual style of the book, featuring nice layout sketches, great photos, and diagrams, with one customer noting it is mostly a picture book.

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"...That said, this book was exactly my style of reading. Very visual, very straightforward, and very easy to skim...." Read more

"This is a wonderfully presented, organized and inspiring book! True, it's not in depth garden information...." Read more

"...Every page is interesting, every view of what a garden is (or can be) is valuable and the illustrations are great...." Read more

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Customers find the book readable and fun to look at, with one customer noting that every page is interesting.

"...Was I ever wrong! Not only is the book chock full of fascinating, unique, and sometimes quirky plans, there are also plenty of great gardening..." Read more

"...Fun to look at and explore at your leisure. I gave the e-book to two of my friends." Read more

"...Every page is interesting, every view of what a garden is (or can be) is valuable and the illustrations are great...." Read more

"We have been enjoying this book, reading it in small increments and commenting to each other about what intrigued us with the more memorable designs...." Read more

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Customers appreciate the writing style of the book, with one mentioning its easy-to-read format and another noting that the presentation is about 4-5 pages long.

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Carole
What a novel idea for a gardening book!
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2014
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I resisted getting this book for a long time. Even though I depend on Niki Jabbour's "The Year Round Vegetable Gardener," I couldn't imagine that there would really be anything useful for me in a book of garden plans. Was I ever wrong! Not only is the book chock full of fascinating, unique, and sometimes quirky plans, there are also plenty of great gardening tips and lists of interesting and unusual vegetables to try. I often found myself highlighting information to try in our next garden. Whether you're an experienced gardener, a newbie, or just a wanna-be gardener, I think you'll find this a worthwhile addition to your gardening library. The illustrations are beautifully and clearly done and the author's easy-to-read writing style is of the highest quality (very important to me--and I'm a tough style critic). I highly recommend this book. I even enjoyed it as bedtime reading--a great way to encourage sweet gardening dreams.

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StitchingLibrarian
Excellent for inspiration and ideas
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2014
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I found this at my local public library and fell in love with it, had to order my own copy because there are just so many great ideas here. First and foremost, you should know what this is NOT. It is NOT a detailed step-by-step guide or how-to garden book. Think of this more as one of the best Pinterest boards you have ever seen. Each garden plan will have something to spark your own ideas, be it layout, plants, or technique. This is book full of inspiration for any gardeners who are looking to mix things up or just need a change from their usual ways of doing things.
I should also note that I'm not one of those meticulous, detail-oriented gardeners who have immaculate formal gardens. I grow things on a whim, and "planning" is used very loosely in what I do with our yard. That said, this book was exactly my style of reading. Very visual, very straightforward, and very easy to skim. There are no photos, just a couple different styles of drawing or sketching each garden plan. I do wish some of the illustrations had more details, but I'm still delighted with the book overall.

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Useful & Inspiring Resource
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2014
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This is a wonderfully presented, organized and inspiring book! True, it's not in depth garden information. But, if you are looking for new ideas there are many different types of gardens described with great photos and diagrams. Some of them show creative solutions people have come up with to grow things they wanted to grow in their climate, for example, how to successfully grow figs in Canada. This book has great creative ideas & solutions and covers a wide array of situations. Fun to look at and explore at your leisure. I gave the e-book to two of my friends.

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Gaye Hill
73 views of what a 'garden' can be!
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2015
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Usually I am not into a compilation book, but this book covers 73 different views of what a 'garden' can be. After a request to my local library so I could preview this book - I bought it! Every page is interesting, every view of what a garden is (or can be) is valuable and the illustrations are great. 5 specific pages sold me on this book and reading through it again I see more useful information.

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Christina Kamp
Excellent Book with tons of ideas!
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2014
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This book had great variety of gardens to learn from. I loved reading about all of the different types of gardens that she studied and brought to the reader lessons to learn from. It is good for any climate since it shares so many, any style, any taste, and any objective. I learned so much from reading it! And it's beautiful too!

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R. Ames
Fun to Flip Through, Not Terribly Practical
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2019
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I enjoyed flipping through this book, but it isn't all that useful for really building a vegetable garden. It's a nice, light, plant-related read, if that's what you're looking for.

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Kenneth Gartner
This would make an excellent housewarming gift
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2016
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We have been enjoying this book, reading it in small increments and commenting to each other about what intrigued us with the more memorable designs. Even though these are short articles adapted from a variety of authors, everything harmonizes nicely. Each presentation is about 4-5 pages long and has a nice layout sketch. This is more an inspirational 'wish book' to demo what is practical, than an actual garden planner. I was surprised how many gardeners take the trouble to espalier trees as I thought that was something rather difficult, so I am heartened. Many of the gardens are small enough that you could actually create one of these every few years to add to your own diversity on your homestead. The book is inexpensive, the format makes it easy to hold and there are many interesting side notes that intrigued us to explore. We live in Zone 5 MA and plenty of the exact examples would work for us, but even if the specific recommended plants are not seasonably appropriate.to our area, that does not diminish from the value the book offers. It is inspiring to see how many 'victory gardens' everyone could plant if they replaced parts of their lawns with a nice food garden. This book would make an excellent housewarming gift, methinks.

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somegirl
Great for those who need to someone else to do the designing for them! Lots of good ideas.
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2015
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I don't have a great head for design--I know what I like when I see it, but it's hard for me to conceptualize what a layout should be to get the intended effect. With this, I can turn to a design I like and they've helpfully included the layout so I can replicate it.

Lots of great ideas, easy to read/flip through. Many different types of gardens.

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Wendy
Do able information!!
Reviewed in Canada on March 27, 2023
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This books is packed with useful information!! Lovely pictures!! Gave me many ideas on use of space as well as what to plant where!!

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Szymciae1979
Have not found it any useful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 4, 2014
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I know that the author of this book is quite recognised but I have not found anything that I will use from that book. A few kinds of gardens - each just a summary on 2 pages ...Disappointing. I Paid quite a lot for it so for me it was a of money. No inspiriting, more inspirations you will find on internet as well as veg and fruit plans. But it could be good for you ... I was looking something to give me an ideas how to plan my back yard garden to grow food. ;( not this book unfortunately.

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Cath
Like a virtual visit of some truly amazing food gardens you kinda wished were yours
Reviewed in Canada on December 15, 2017
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If you're a gardener who likes to grow food, and who likes to check out other people's gardens, then you're going to love this book. Lots of plans, feels like you get to tour your grandiose neighbour's beautifully planned out food garden. Gives all sorts of ideas of plants, layouts, combinations, and themes for gardens. For me, it's a nice way to dream and escape the winter blues while I wait for the next gardening season to come around... the book can just be dipped into and opened at random, so that I can explore a garden or several, every time I feel like I need a gardening fix.

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Packed with Ideas
Reviewed in Canada on April 5, 2014
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This is the first gardening book of it's kind. 73 different perspectives on how to produce your own food no matter where you live or how much land you have. The author has a small paragraph on each contributor, along with their web site, so you can follow up and find even more information. The illustrations are very well done and the narrative concise and to the point. I would have paid triple for this book. The quality of this publication is top notch.

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Great book
Reviewed in Canada on April 17, 2022
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Great book !

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