{"id":1929,"date":"2017-05-16T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T07:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-23\/"},"modified":"2017-05-16T00:01:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T07:01:03","slug":"garden-tip-23","status":"publish","type":"tool","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Tip #23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a short list of good books for both the arm-chair kitchen gardener and for those who like to get their hands dirty:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The New Kitchen Garden<\/em> by Anna Pavord (Dorling Kindersley, $29.95) has lots of photos and diagrams with well organized, concise text.<\/li>\n<li><em>Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini: The Essential Reference <\/em> by Elizabeth Schneider (William Morrow, $60.00) has &#8220;500 recipes and 275 photographs&#8221; focusing on the history of vegetables and how to use them in the kitchen. It has no growing information, however.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping<\/em> by Rosalind Creasy (Sierra Club Books, $25.00) introduces the idea of planting fruits and vegetables all around the garden.<\/li>\n<li><em>Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally<\/em> by Robert Kourik (Metamorphic Press, available used online and at the Miller Library) is a classic resource thick with practical details on everything from energy-conserving landscaping and soil preparation to drip irrigation for fruit trees.<\/li>\n<li><em>How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine<\/em> by John Jeavons (Ten Speed Press, $17.95) is an old classic which has just been revised and reissued.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Cook and the Gardener: a Year of Recipes and Writings from the French Country-side<\/em> by Amanda Hesser (W.W. Norton, $32.50) is a delightful book divided into seasons with diary-like entries about living, gardening and cooking on a French farm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a short list of good books for both the arm-chair kitchen gardener and for those who like to get their hands dirty: The New Kitchen Garden by Anna Pavord (Dorling Kindersley, $29.95) has lots of photos and diagrams with well organized, concise text. Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini: The Essential Reference by Elizabeth Schneider (William Morrow, $60.00) has &#8220;500 recipes and 275 photographs&#8221; focusing on the history of vegetables and how to use them in the kitchen. It&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-23\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Garden Tip #23<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[162,59,161,52],"class_list":["post-1929","tool","type-tool","status-publish","hentry","keyword-edible-landscaping","keyword-fruit-care-and-maintenance","keyword-nuts","keyword-vegetable-gardening"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tool\/1929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tool"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tool"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}