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Harvest: Unexpected Projects Using 47 Extraordinary Garden Plants
A beautifully photographed, gift-worthy guide to growing, harvesting, and utilizing 47Ìýunexpected garden plants to make organic pantry staples, fragrances, floral arrangements, beverages, cocktails, beauty products, bridal gifts, and more.
Every garden--not just vegetable plots--can produce a bountiful harvest! ThisÌýpractical, inspirational, and seasonal guide will help make any garden moreÌýproductive and enjoyable with a variety of projects using unexpected and oftenÌýcommon garden plants, some of which may already be growing inÌýyour backyard.
Discover the surprising usefulness of petals and leaves, roots, seeds, and Ìýturn tumeric root into a natural dye and calamintha into lip balm. Make anise hyssopÌýinto a refreshingÌýiced teaÌýand turn apricots into a facial mask. CrabappleÌýbranches can be used to create stunning floral arrangements, oregano flowers toÌýinfuse vinegar, and edible chrysanthemum to liven up a salad. With theÌýremarkable, multi-purpose plants in Harvest, there is always something forÌýgardeners to harvest from one growing season to the next.
Every garden--not just vegetable plots--can produce a bountiful harvest! ThisÌýpractical, inspirational, and seasonal guide will help make any garden moreÌýproductive and enjoyable with a variety of projects using unexpected and oftenÌýcommon garden plants, some of which may already be growing inÌýyour backyard.
Discover the surprising usefulness of petals and leaves, roots, seeds, and Ìýturn tumeric root into a natural dye and calamintha into lip balm. Make anise hyssopÌýinto a refreshingÌýiced teaÌýand turn apricots into a facial mask. CrabappleÌýbranches can be used to create stunning floral arrangements, oregano flowers toÌýinfuse vinegar, and edible chrysanthemum to liven up a salad. With theÌýremarkable, multi-purpose plants in Harvest, there is always something forÌýgardeners to harvest from one growing season to the next.
224 pages, Hardcover
Published February 7, 2017
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About the author
Stefani Bittner
5Ìýbooks8ÌýfollowersStefani Bittner is the owner of Homestead Design Collective, a San Francisco Bay Area landscape design firm focused on creating beautiful gardens that provide harvest.
Her team offers a unique and sophisticated approach, using both organic farming and fine gardening skills, for people who want help creating aesthetically designed, organic edible gardens. Stefani is the co-author of The Beautiful Edible Garden (Ten Speed Press, 2013) and co-author of Harvest ( Ten Speed Press, 2017).
Homestead provides design, installation, and full-service organic maintenance, harvesting, bee keeping, floristry and composting services. Homestead recently designed and installed the new Test Gardens for Sunset Magazine. Stefani's work has been featured in San Francisco Chronicle, Sunset Magazine, C Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Better Homes & Gardens, and Gardenista.com.
Her team offers a unique and sophisticated approach, using both organic farming and fine gardening skills, for people who want help creating aesthetically designed, organic edible gardens. Stefani is the co-author of The Beautiful Edible Garden (Ten Speed Press, 2013) and co-author of Harvest ( Ten Speed Press, 2017).
Homestead provides design, installation, and full-service organic maintenance, harvesting, bee keeping, floristry and composting services. Homestead recently designed and installed the new Test Gardens for Sunset Magazine. Stefani's work has been featured in San Francisco Chronicle, Sunset Magazine, C Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Better Homes & Gardens, and Gardenista.com.
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February 7, 2017
GNab I received a free electronic copy of this garden and cook book from Netgalley, Stephani Bittner, Alethea Harampolis and TenSpeed Press in exchange for an honest review. Thank you all for sharing your work with me.
This is an exceptional book, covering the growing of, harvest of, preservation of, and recipes for some of our most classic edible flowers, vegetables and herbs from our personal gardens. The photographs are wonderful! Some things I knew of and grow, but many others I considered to be either too fragile or too complicated for my gardens. I am all revved up for spring, now. Thank you so much for sharing all these great ideas for sparkling up my yard and my dining table. I would recommend this book to anyone who is called to garden, or loves to eat.
pub date Feb 7, 2017
This is an exceptional book, covering the growing of, harvest of, preservation of, and recipes for some of our most classic edible flowers, vegetables and herbs from our personal gardens. The photographs are wonderful! Some things I knew of and grow, but many others I considered to be either too fragile or too complicated for my gardens. I am all revved up for spring, now. Thank you so much for sharing all these great ideas for sparkling up my yard and my dining table. I would recommend this book to anyone who is called to garden, or loves to eat.
pub date Feb 7, 2017
April 11, 2017
The author states, “Harvest is a practical, inspirational, and seasonal guide to living with an edible landscape. In this book, you’ll find ways to make your garden more productive and enjoyable with a variety of projects using unexpected and often well-known garden plants, some of which may already be growing in your garden.�
I Agree!
Inside this lovely hard back book filled with beautiful pictures are a list 47 projects. They talk about food safety, organic gardening and beneficial insects. I liked that the book is divided into seasons. I was amazed not only at the fact that you could eat these flowers but they also made tasty teas, beauty products and other health-full use-able items.
Each ingredient has a description of the plant, it’s history and how to care for it in order to get a good harvest. The book’s first vegetable is Rhubarb; the recipe is for a small-batch, quick-pickled rhubarb. They also list lilac the recipe is for Lilac Flower Cream, Bachelor’s buttons is after that the recipe is for Blooming Butter and another interesting plant is a Salad Burnet made from Early-Season Herb Salad.
I was amazed at how flowers can be more than something beautiful looking in your house; there are recipes for teas, spices to enhance the flavor of food, to edible vegetable plants to plants that are used for all natural face cream.
There is a list of project Ingredient alternatives. I found this helpful. I also liked the list of terms and techniques for me to refer to in the back. Along with a list of resources and an index for easy reference.
I haven’t started a garden yet but this looks like it could be for beginner gardeners (like me) to the more experienced ones. The plants and recipes inside these pages can put a beautiful sparkle in your yard, beauty on your table and boost of flavor in your mouth. It’s a win win on many levels.
Disclosure of Material Connection: II checked this book out of the public library. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising�
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I Agree!
Inside this lovely hard back book filled with beautiful pictures are a list 47 projects. They talk about food safety, organic gardening and beneficial insects. I liked that the book is divided into seasons. I was amazed not only at the fact that you could eat these flowers but they also made tasty teas, beauty products and other health-full use-able items.
Each ingredient has a description of the plant, it’s history and how to care for it in order to get a good harvest. The book’s first vegetable is Rhubarb; the recipe is for a small-batch, quick-pickled rhubarb. They also list lilac the recipe is for Lilac Flower Cream, Bachelor’s buttons is after that the recipe is for Blooming Butter and another interesting plant is a Salad Burnet made from Early-Season Herb Salad.
I was amazed at how flowers can be more than something beautiful looking in your house; there are recipes for teas, spices to enhance the flavor of food, to edible vegetable plants to plants that are used for all natural face cream.
There is a list of project Ingredient alternatives. I found this helpful. I also liked the list of terms and techniques for me to refer to in the back. Along with a list of resources and an index for easy reference.
I haven’t started a garden yet but this looks like it could be for beginner gardeners (like me) to the more experienced ones. The plants and recipes inside these pages can put a beautiful sparkle in your yard, beauty on your table and boost of flavor in your mouth. It’s a win win on many levels.
Disclosure of Material Connection: II checked this book out of the public library. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising�
Nora St. Laurent
COO of TBCN Where Book Fun Begins!
The Book Club Network blog
Book Fun Magazine
SVP of Promotion
February 19, 2018
This is definitely a book by hipsters, for hipsters but that can be overlooked due to the lovely photographs and useful information found within. I probably won't use any of the specific ideas but it was overall creatively stimulating and the resources in the back are very good.
December 3, 2022
Fairly useless unless you live in Zones 8-10. Very heavy on "duh" uses like teas, bouquets/decorations, and infusions (but little guidance on use or possible contraindications). There are many better books available.
February 24, 2017
[Note: This book was provided free of charge by Blogging For Books/10 Speed Press.]
This is a really enjoyable book to read. Do you like beautiful, colorful photos of a range of garden plants, some of which are deeply obscure, as well as recipes of quirky products made of those garden plants that show themselves to be immensely useful in a variety of ways? Odds are you will like this book. Do you like organic gardening [1] and enjoy reading books about how to best enjoy the diversity of God's creation on one's own property? Can you read a book and not be offended by frequent references to flowers in one's butter, herbal teas, and large amounts of hipster alcoholic beverages? If so, you will definitely enjoy this book. There is little question that the authors are hipsters of a particular kind, yet as they turn their evident social snobbery into items that one cannot buy simply because they are too odd to be mass marketed, they turn that snobbery into an area that I can appreciate as a deeply odd person myself. In reading this book I found myself wondering, what would that taste like, and willing to try. In my book, that is a success.
The book is organized in a sensible enough fashion. The authors take 47 extraordinary garden plants and divide them based on their growing season into three periods, early, mid, and late, which roughly correspond to whenever it becomes spring, summer, or fall in an area, regardless of the actual timing. Each of the garden plants includes at least one recipe for a project of some kind and some amazing photography. The graphical design of this book is amazing, and goes well above what would need to happen, popping with color, showing a great deal of contrast, and even throwing in attention to surrounding details like children or wood and stone or raindrops on leaves, or in one of the most simple pieces, calendula blooms in olive oil to create an essential oil for sore muscles. The garden plants themselves are mostly obscure, but the products included in this book are often ones I would be very willing at least to try out, and they include the following: a variety of herb salads made from salad burnet, amaranth, and shungiku, a poppy seed dressing, blooming butter with bachelor's buttons, elderflower-infused honey, oregano-infused vinegar, scented geranium sugar, anise hyssop iced tea, custom herb blends with thyme, quince paste, pineapple guava simple syrup, viola-infused water, mashua tuber mash, and the aforementioned calendula-infused essential oil. Does liking these items make me a hipster? Honestly, it doesn't matter, if a book can be this quirky and enthusiastic.
This book taps into the side of odd but lovely organic gardening that I most appreciate, and that is the sheer loveliness and creativity of what can be made. Is it odd to put flowers in your butter and lemongrass in your salt scrub or geranium in your sugar or make beautiful floral arrangements out of artichokes? I would consider all of these things to be odd, certainly, but they are beautiful and may very well also be enjoyable to taste or beautiful for other people to look at as well. They are certainly creative and fairly simple and straightforward. What makes them odd is that no one would think to do them until they were told by others that such and such a bloom or leaf or seed was edible and useful, or were shown pictures to see just how beautiful they looked when arranged correctly. Someone has to be the sort of brave person to experiment or to pass along obscure knowledge about plants gained over the generations, and there are more people who are willing to test out those claims and demonstrate that knowledge to be true, and to enjoy the results of what other people have spent a great deal of time looking into. If there is one aspect of the authors' approach I find most congenial it is the fact that they are totally fine with being odd and eccentric, because it springs from a love of creation and what it has to offer those who are willing to plant and harvest for themselves rather than to simply buy it from a store. There is something creditable and laudable in that do-it-yourself approach to personal projects related to food and beauty items, even where not all items are of interest personally to me.
[1] See, for example:
This is a really enjoyable book to read. Do you like beautiful, colorful photos of a range of garden plants, some of which are deeply obscure, as well as recipes of quirky products made of those garden plants that show themselves to be immensely useful in a variety of ways? Odds are you will like this book. Do you like organic gardening [1] and enjoy reading books about how to best enjoy the diversity of God's creation on one's own property? Can you read a book and not be offended by frequent references to flowers in one's butter, herbal teas, and large amounts of hipster alcoholic beverages? If so, you will definitely enjoy this book. There is little question that the authors are hipsters of a particular kind, yet as they turn their evident social snobbery into items that one cannot buy simply because they are too odd to be mass marketed, they turn that snobbery into an area that I can appreciate as a deeply odd person myself. In reading this book I found myself wondering, what would that taste like, and willing to try. In my book, that is a success.
The book is organized in a sensible enough fashion. The authors take 47 extraordinary garden plants and divide them based on their growing season into three periods, early, mid, and late, which roughly correspond to whenever it becomes spring, summer, or fall in an area, regardless of the actual timing. Each of the garden plants includes at least one recipe for a project of some kind and some amazing photography. The graphical design of this book is amazing, and goes well above what would need to happen, popping with color, showing a great deal of contrast, and even throwing in attention to surrounding details like children or wood and stone or raindrops on leaves, or in one of the most simple pieces, calendula blooms in olive oil to create an essential oil for sore muscles. The garden plants themselves are mostly obscure, but the products included in this book are often ones I would be very willing at least to try out, and they include the following: a variety of herb salads made from salad burnet, amaranth, and shungiku, a poppy seed dressing, blooming butter with bachelor's buttons, elderflower-infused honey, oregano-infused vinegar, scented geranium sugar, anise hyssop iced tea, custom herb blends with thyme, quince paste, pineapple guava simple syrup, viola-infused water, mashua tuber mash, and the aforementioned calendula-infused essential oil. Does liking these items make me a hipster? Honestly, it doesn't matter, if a book can be this quirky and enthusiastic.
This book taps into the side of odd but lovely organic gardening that I most appreciate, and that is the sheer loveliness and creativity of what can be made. Is it odd to put flowers in your butter and lemongrass in your salt scrub or geranium in your sugar or make beautiful floral arrangements out of artichokes? I would consider all of these things to be odd, certainly, but they are beautiful and may very well also be enjoyable to taste or beautiful for other people to look at as well. They are certainly creative and fairly simple and straightforward. What makes them odd is that no one would think to do them until they were told by others that such and such a bloom or leaf or seed was edible and useful, or were shown pictures to see just how beautiful they looked when arranged correctly. Someone has to be the sort of brave person to experiment or to pass along obscure knowledge about plants gained over the generations, and there are more people who are willing to test out those claims and demonstrate that knowledge to be true, and to enjoy the results of what other people have spent a great deal of time looking into. If there is one aspect of the authors' approach I find most congenial it is the fact that they are totally fine with being odd and eccentric, because it springs from a love of creation and what it has to offer those who are willing to plant and harvest for themselves rather than to simply buy it from a store. There is something creditable and laudable in that do-it-yourself approach to personal projects related to food and beauty items, even where not all items are of interest personally to me.
[1] See, for example:
October 19, 2017
Eye candy, but not particularly useful unless you have a garden full of exotic fruits and herbs.
May 5, 2017
This book is one of those books you will want to have on your coffee table for people to page through. It is filled with gorgeous photography. Not only that, but the useful information for those of you looking for uses for common plants, herbs or unusual garden plants.
I did find that some of the zoning seemed to be off on what plants grow where, but it did instruct you to refer to a updated zoning chart with an online link in the back. I was wishing for a zone map to be included, but they skipped that.
There were multiple recipes for alcoholic drinks, herbal oils, and some other recipes, but mostly, this is just a lovely book of amazing pictures, with some minor ideas of how to use the plants. Most of the plants mentioned only grow in zones 6 and up, so if you are a colder weather, northern dweller, know that some of the plants do grow here that they mentioned, but they do not mention your zone.
I did, very much enjoy this book and passed it along to a friend to look at in the final stages of her pregnancy. I am looking forward to making the lilac cream, some of the oils and lip balm mentioned in here.
This book was given to me for review by Blogging for Books. The opinions contained herein are my own.
It is available for purchase and would make an excellent gift for any gardener.
"Harvest" It comes in a lovely hardcover volume.
I did find that some of the zoning seemed to be off on what plants grow where, but it did instruct you to refer to a updated zoning chart with an online link in the back. I was wishing for a zone map to be included, but they skipped that.
There were multiple recipes for alcoholic drinks, herbal oils, and some other recipes, but mostly, this is just a lovely book of amazing pictures, with some minor ideas of how to use the plants. Most of the plants mentioned only grow in zones 6 and up, so if you are a colder weather, northern dweller, know that some of the plants do grow here that they mentioned, but they do not mention your zone.
I did, very much enjoy this book and passed it along to a friend to look at in the final stages of her pregnancy. I am looking forward to making the lilac cream, some of the oils and lip balm mentioned in here.
This book was given to me for review by Blogging for Books. The opinions contained herein are my own.
It is available for purchase and would make an excellent gift for any gardener.
"Harvest" It comes in a lovely hardcover volume.
February 13, 2017
This lovely book consists of 47 projects using a variety of plants and flowers for creating among other things, herbal teas, infused oils, and striking arrangements using unexpected plants. The projects come with clear and easy to follow instructions with further tips at the end of the book. Each project focuses on a specific plant with information about the plant and how to grow the particular variety in question, as well as the project itself. The book is arranged by seasons, inspiring readers to make the most of nature throughout the year.
The authors included high-quality photos which I found inspiring. In fact, just reading this book made me want to run out to the garden shop and buy some herbs and other plants. It also made me appreciate the fact that some plants could be put to more uses than I had assumed.
This book would no doubt be the perfect gift for a gardener or a creative person who wants to make the most of some common plants found in gardens and backyards and with plants that can be easily found at a local shop.
Thanks to Blogging for Books for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest review.
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The authors included high-quality photos which I found inspiring. In fact, just reading this book made me want to run out to the garden shop and buy some herbs and other plants. It also made me appreciate the fact that some plants could be put to more uses than I had assumed.
This book would no doubt be the perfect gift for a gardener or a creative person who wants to make the most of some common plants found in gardens and backyards and with plants that can be easily found at a local shop.
Thanks to Blogging for Books for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest review.
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December 1, 2017
I enjoyed reading through this, the photography is excellent and I found the descriptions of the plants easy to read. A useful guide, separated into sections by time of year the plant is harvested in (early, mid, late) of edible plants that also are attractive in the garden or landscape.
Each plant has a general description, how it grows in the garden (zones it does best in, shade/sun/etc, if it tends to be tall or sprawling, etc), how to harvest it, as well as a recipe or suggestions for use of harvested parts from the plant.
There are some interesting techniques among the recipes, such as making rosewater tonic (some parallels to distillation), creating a tincture, and an oil infusion.
Each plant has a general description, how it grows in the garden (zones it does best in, shade/sun/etc, if it tends to be tall or sprawling, etc), how to harvest it, as well as a recipe or suggestions for use of harvested parts from the plant.
There are some interesting techniques among the recipes, such as making rosewater tonic (some parallels to distillation), creating a tincture, and an oil infusion.
February 19, 2021
This is both very lovely and very useful book! Inspiring and full of interesting information and projects, which practically all of them I want to try immediately (I am less interested in all things decoration and wreaths, but as for the cosmetics and culinary projects - bring them all!).
The photographs are lushful and the information gathered here will offer something new even to the experienced gardeners.
But mostly, this book has revived and renewed my interest in gardening - and when living the covid times, there is nothing as important as hope and positive plans. I feel enriched and energized to put my hands into some exciting plant and herb growing!
The photographs are lushful and the information gathered here will offer something new even to the experienced gardeners.
But mostly, this book has revived and renewed my interest in gardening - and when living the covid times, there is nothing as important as hope and positive plans. I feel enriched and energized to put my hands into some exciting plant and herb growing!
January 29, 2018
From Netgalley for review:
This is such a neat book, makes me wish I lived somewhere where foraging was a bit easier (city woes, city woes) and was actually good at gardening. The plants covered in this book are all quite familiar, no truly exotic wild things or very hard to find plants, but the recipes and uses for them are outside of the normal use for a lot of the plants. I really enjoyed how it was broken up by season and how it is not the typical tea or food recipes. Overall I really recommend this book to anyone who loves doing fun things with plants!
This is such a neat book, makes me wish I lived somewhere where foraging was a bit easier (city woes, city woes) and was actually good at gardening. The plants covered in this book are all quite familiar, no truly exotic wild things or very hard to find plants, but the recipes and uses for them are outside of the normal use for a lot of the plants. I really enjoyed how it was broken up by season and how it is not the typical tea or food recipes. Overall I really recommend this book to anyone who loves doing fun things with plants!
March 4, 2017
What really makes Harvest: Unexpected Projects Using 47 Extraordinary Garden Plants by Stefani Bittner and Alethea Harampolis such an appealing book is the photography. From the simple and vibrant cover to the full page images that make up half the book, the book conjures up its message of the bounty possible in a garden and makes me want to run out and start planting.
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June 16, 2017
I really enjoyed this book. I wrote down so much information from the book that I'm considering buying it to have it on hand. I wanted inspiration to add more edibles to my front and side yard and this book definitely gave me that. It listed several plants - some unusual, some that I didn't know where edible - gave a short blurb on growing and harvesting them and then gave a project for each plant.
August 11, 2023
Bit of an odd book. It's organized by plant instead of by use--e.g. lemongrass + salt scrub recipe--whereas I think it would have been more useful and interesting to be organized the other way round, e.g. herbal salt scrubs + list of garden plants. Also includes quite a few rare plants that are interesting to daydream about but not likely to be useful to most people. Very attractive design however, fun to flip through.
April 26, 2018
A lovely book - quality binding and great pictures - with some good ideas and recipes for using the fruits (and leaves, etc.) of labor from your garden. A nice cross-section of food, drink, decorative, and bodycare projects. Also has some clever tips and tricks woven throughout, and some unique plant suggestions (can't wait to try a finger lime!) - definitely worth checking out.
January 8, 2018
Gorgeous photos! Simple to read and even plan your gardens by. I’m adding in some flowering varieties this year solely based on the inspiration I received from reading and flipping through this beauty. It’s a must own for me and my house as it will make a brilliant go-to guide for my gardening, cooking and medicinal project ventures year round.
Shelved as 'skimmed'
November 28, 2024Might be a good starting point for someone learning the different things you can do with garden harvests. Their use of pruned branches heavy with ripe fruit as a centerpiece seemed wasteful, and a couple of their statement about plants didn’t match my experiences (but the authors garden in a vastly different environment than I do).
February 19, 2017
There are 47 multi purpose plants and projects in Harvest. From turmeric root, anise hyssop, lavender petals, roots, leaves, fruit apricots, crab apple branches, oregano flowers and seeds to rhubarb. You will find ways to make your garden more productive.
May 5, 2017
This book is lovely - beautifully rendered - and I enjoyed reading through. Even though I grow or have grown many of the plants presented, I just didn't feel practically inspired by the projects. I borrowed the book from the library and would recommend it, but it's not one I will purchase.
September 2, 2024
This book was fine, not very useful. There are several basic tea recipes & idea for creating wreaths with plants form the garden - not sure I’ll ever pick the book up again now that I’ve finished reading it�.
May 22, 2017
Simple cookbook with lovely pictures and tasty recipes.
June 25, 2017
beautiful paper, photos, So nice. Kind of like a book to give as a gift.
July 20, 2017
Interesting. Lovely photographs and layout. It's not necessarily a practical guide, so to me that makes it a bit more pretentious than I was hoping for, but a nice coffee-table book, I suppose.
August 2, 2017
Great ideas here. I especially enjoyed learning more about lemongrass. Hope to make a salt scrub with it.
September 23, 2017
Gardening and using the fruits of your labor? This book is so inspiring! Beautiful photos and terrific projects-I wish all these plants would grow in my area so I could try them all. Loved the book.
January 16, 2018
stunning book with very innovative ideas.
August 28, 2018
This book is filled with delicious visuals and UNIQUE ideas for entertaining.
Have some extra marigolds in your pots? Put them in a spring salad. A blueberry bush producing a bumper crop? Mix several cups of berries with water and dye some cloth purple!
Okay, I don’t see myself doing either of those things anytime soon. However, I do think I’ll take to one of the suggestions for making your own dried herb blend. Now I can do something useful with my plentiful cilantro, parsley, and chives!
Also, this book mentioned persimmon. It appears to be a soft fleshed fruit that looks like a tomato/apple hybrid. It looks looks delish! I wonder if they would survive up north?
Have some extra marigolds in your pots? Put them in a spring salad. A blueberry bush producing a bumper crop? Mix several cups of berries with water and dye some cloth purple!
Okay, I don’t see myself doing either of those things anytime soon. However, I do think I’ll take to one of the suggestions for making your own dried herb blend. Now I can do something useful with my plentiful cilantro, parsley, and chives!
Also, this book mentioned persimmon. It appears to be a soft fleshed fruit that looks like a tomato/apple hybrid. It looks looks delish! I wonder if they would survive up north?
May 25, 2021
I enjoyed the range of projects - great reminder of the various projects we can do with garden plants
March 18, 2017
What a gorgeous book! I know some gardeners for whom this would be a perfect gift. It's just a little involved for me to really get all that I could out of it.
Broken in to three seasons, it has planting suggestions, care and keeping of directions, recipes, and craft ideas all illustrated with stunning full page color photographs. I was so pleased to see some ideas for my huckleberry plants, and now just need to wait for them to come into season to try the drink recipe.
While this isn't a garden comprehensive (probably? no garden is the same, after all), this is a wonderful addition to the shelf. A supplemental which covers both garden staples and unusual additions.
I received a copy of this book through Blogging for Books and have agreed to provide an honest review.
Broken in to three seasons, it has planting suggestions, care and keeping of directions, recipes, and craft ideas all illustrated with stunning full page color photographs. I was so pleased to see some ideas for my huckleberry plants, and now just need to wait for them to come into season to try the drink recipe.
While this isn't a garden comprehensive (probably? no garden is the same, after all), this is a wonderful addition to the shelf. A supplemental which covers both garden staples and unusual additions.
I received a copy of this book through Blogging for Books and have agreed to provide an honest review.
August 11, 2024
Visually, this book is stunning. Had a few ideas planted in my head for possible future projects. However, I keep coming back to the beauty in the photographs.
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