The Ornamental Vegetable Garden
Title | The Ornamental Vegetable Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Diana Anthony |
Publisher | Warwick House Publishing |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Edible landscaping |
ISBN | 9781894020558 |
Louis the XIV commissioned a landscape gardener to design the Potager de Roi at Versailles. Many of the fruit and vegetable pruning systems developed by this gardener are still in use today. This beautiful book illustrates the design and planting of the ornamental vegetable garden, where aesthetics and practicality combine to create edible gardens.
Ornamental Vegetable Gardening
Title | Ornamental Vegetable Gardening PDF eBook |
Author | Sally Gregson |
Publisher | Crowood Press (UK) |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Plants, Ornamental |
ISBN | 9781847971173 |
"Demystifies growing vegetables and explains how a vegetable garden can be as beautiful to look at as it is productive, healthy, and economic to use." -- Back cover.
Beautiful American Vegetable Gardens
Title | Beautiful American Vegetable Gardens PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Tonetti Dorra |
Publisher | Clarkson Potter |
Total Pages | 198 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN |
Today's hottest horticultural trend is vegetable gardening--and the newest crop of vegetable gardens is a treat for the eye as well as the palate. The proof is evident on every page of the first full-color celebration of the ornamental vegetable gardens of America. 250 full-color photos. Size C. 192 pp. Author tour & national publicity. 20,000 print.
Feast Your Eyes
Title | Feast Your Eyes PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Pennington |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 169 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Gardens |
ISBN | 0520235223 |
In an effort to beautify traditional vegetable gardens, landscape architects and gardeners are finding inspiration in the European vegetable gardens of the 17th century. "Feast Your Eyes" examines the historical antecedents of this modern movement. 106 illustrations. 16 photos.
Texas Organic Vegetable Gardening
Title | Texas Organic Vegetable Gardening PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Garrett |
Publisher | Taylor Trade Publishing |
Total Pages | 233 |
Release | 1998-07-25 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 1589794818 |
This book shows you how to have healthy soil and recommends environmentally safe products and even some homemade remedies to control pests and diseases in your garden. It describes more than 100 food plants and gives specific information on the growth habits, culture, harvest, and storage of each.
Ornamental Vegetable Garden
Title | Ornamental Vegetable Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Diana Anthony |
Publisher | UNSW Press |
Total Pages | 130 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN |
For those who aspire to grow a herb or vegetable garden that is not only practical but a work of beauty as well. This book offers practical and attractive guides to planning, designing, creating, constructing and planting an ornamental vegetable and herb garden, both on a large and small scale.
The Ornamental Edible Garden
Title | The Ornamental Edible Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Diana Anthony |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-02-28 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 9780824836726 |
Combine creativity, aesthetics and practicality in your very own garden with an inspired mix of fruit, vegetable, herbs and flowers. This beautifully illustrated book gives practical information on everything you need to know to design and plant an ornamental edible garden, including advice on laying pathways and edgings, building raised beds, erecting plant supports, hedging and enclosures, how to espalier, as well as plans for traditional ground layouts for any garden size or shape, and much, much more. A special section is devoted to the creation of tiny-space and ‘no-soil’ potagers, and a range of vegetables and dwarf fruit tree varieties suitable for container and smaller plantings is discussed. Essential horticultural practices such as crop rotation, greenmanures, composting and continuity of produce are presented, together with companion planting and organic management. Attractive & practical diagrams & ground plans; Inspirational photographs of fully mature & developing gardens; Advice on the use of produce, including harvesting & storing; Details on the most reliable cultivars and how, where & when to plant and best times to harvest.