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Grow something different to eat, Matthew Biggs

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Grow something different to eat

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Matthew Biggs

Whether you're a beginner and determined to make the most of limited space with a truly unique and heirloom harvest, or a seasoned grower looking to spice up your cooking with gourmet flavors, the step-by-step instructions give you the confidence to grow some unusually tasty crops. Choose from fruiting vegetables such as orange eggplants and hyacinth beans, salad greens such as fiddlehead ferns and sushi hostas, grains such as quinoa and chia, and luscious fruits such as honeyberries and white strawberries. All plants can be started indoors and transplanted, grown outdoors in the garden, or kept as houseplants. With versatile gardening advice for growing in a variety of spaces and situations, plus cooking suggestions and preserving options, a weird and wonderful harvest is guaranteed.--Amazon.com

Fruiting vegetables : Snake gourd ; Turkish orange eggplant ; Hyacinth beans ; Chickpeas ; Asparagus peas -- Salad vegetables : Cucamelons ; Achocha ; Spilanthes ; Shiso ; Rat-tail radish ; Red orach ; Society garlic -- Leafy greens : Ostrich ferns ; Sushi hosta ; Strawberry spinach ; Garland daisy ; Callaloo ; Walking-stick kale ; Huauzontle ; Salsola -- Roots, bulbs, and shoots : Yacon ; Camas ; Dahlia yam ; Mashua ; Chinese artichoke ; Oca ; Taro ; Jicama ; Earth chestnut ; Skirret ; Elephant garlic ; Daylilies -- Grains and seeds : Amaranth ; Quinoa ; Chia ; Sesame ; Strawberry popcorn -- Herbs and spices : Fenugreek ; Wood sorrel ; Fish mint ; Water celery ; Turmeric ; Wasabi ; Japanese ginger ; Tea ; Sweetleaf ; Meadowsweet -- Fruit -- Kiwiberry ; Finger lime ; Chilean guava ; Honeyberry ; Fuchsia berry ; Cape gooseberry ; Goji berry ; Chokeberry ; Hardy passion fruit ; Oregon grape ; White alpine strawberry

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Grow something different to eat, weird and wonderful heirloom fruits and vegetables for your garden