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Growing Unusual Vegetables: Weird and Wonderful Vegetables and How to Grow Them by Simon Hickmott
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Growing-Unus...3413128&sr=8-1
I'd dithered over buying this for a while but saw a damaged copy (turned out to be a tiny fold on the back cover!) on Amazon for just 19p, so took the plunge. It's superb! Having read it now, I would happily have paid the cover price. It's not a pretty coffee table type book, the illustrations are all black and white pencil sketches but it's a mine of information on out of the ordinary stuff. Each plant gets at least a double page spread, starting with a brief classification - Latin name, Family, Type, Hardiness, Height, Rotation - then more detail on origin & history, uses, cultivation and varieties.
There's also an all-important list of suppliers at the back, so that you should be able to get your hands on any of the veg listed!
Claire
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Growing-Unus...3413128&sr=8-1
I'd dithered over buying this for a while but saw a damaged copy (turned out to be a tiny fold on the back cover!) on Amazon for just 19p, so took the plunge. It's superb! Having read it now, I would happily have paid the cover price. It's not a pretty coffee table type book, the illustrations are all black and white pencil sketches but it's a mine of information on out of the ordinary stuff. Each plant gets at least a double page spread, starting with a brief classification - Latin name, Family, Type, Hardiness, Height, Rotation - then more detail on origin & history, uses, cultivation and varieties.
There's also an all-important list of suppliers at the back, so that you should be able to get your hands on any of the veg listed!
Claire
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