The New Heirloom Garden: 12 Theme Designs with Recipes for Cooks Who Love to Garden

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Design a beautiful and self-sufficient garden; learn the secrets of heirloom vegetables, herbs, and flowers; and enjoy 75 seasonal recipes featuring the fruits of your labor--all with one book! The best-tasting vegetables are heirlooms, the most fragrant flowers are heirlooms, and the most interesting plants are heirlooms. But heirlooms are more than just delicious ingredients or beautiful flowers--their seeds offer us a connection with the earth, and each one tells a story. In The New Heirloom Garden, author and garden lecturer Ellen Ecker Ogden guides readers toward creating their own heirloom gardens with tangible gardening tips, twelve themed garden designs, and detailed resources. The book is organized around those garden designs, with each chapter including a plant key with plant descriptions, an illustrated color design to inspire the reader, and five recipes that can be made from each vegetable grown in that garden. It's a book designed for readers to bring to their local supply store, take outside into the garden, and then bring into the kitchen. In addition to giving the novice gardener tips for starting a garden from scratch and advice to advanced gardeners, Ogden shares the whimsical history of heirlooms and the legacies of the fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers that make up a well-kept garden.

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Perfect for cooks and gardeners alike, this useful look at vintage varieties puts a fresh shine on an old subject.Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

Ellen Ecker Ogden is a garden speaker and author of five books, including The Complete Kitchen Garden. She cofounded The Cook's Garden seed catalog in 1985, introducing home gardeners to the best-tasting vegetables for cooks who love to garden. She is an award-winning food and garden writer, and a kitchen garden designer who is known for her informative and fun-loving garden talks. Her kitchen garden designs have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Better Homes and Gardens, Country Gardens, and more.