Growing an Edible Landscape Book Review – A Must Have Resource For A Bountiful Harvest

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Published on Tuesday, 16 January 2024 13:07

Written by Janet Walker

Growing an Edible Landscape, from Quarto Publishing, brings to the pages all the dirt on transforming your outdoor space into a food garden, with charts to help determine the best fruits, vegetables, and designs for a bountiful harvest.

Authors Gary Pilarchik and Chiara D'Amore, Ph.D, explain over eight chapters the importance of less lawn and more food. As the world continues to address food shortages, understand the importance of using the resources available, as simple as a plot of land in the backyard of your home, to help address, locally, fresh vegetable shortages.

Beginning with "The Case for Less Lawn and More Food," we understand cultivating edible plants instead of lawns helps with food-sufficiency, reduces fossil fuel consumption and build communities. They also introduce "No Mow May," a global movement for allowing lawns to grow during early spring to help increase pollination and address the dwindling bee population.

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Having an overgrown lawn for a month, can exponentially increase growth of flowers and "75% of the world's food crops depend on pollinators," meaning three-fourths of the global food crops will be adversely affected by the loss of the bees and tolerating the bee population will ultimately pay off with more abundant worldwide harvests, no fruit and vegetable food shortages, and ultimately no spikes in consumer prices.

As with all projects, understanding the key elements are critical to success. In Growing and Edible Landscape, the most critical elements include creating a space that is workable, understanding the design necessary to hold the intended crops, and helping design even small spaces with raised beds to transform even a small corner into a healthy, vegetable of fruit producing garden.

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Also presented across Chapter 2, "Exploring and Transforming Your Landscape, (page 31) and Chapter 3, "Garden Designs for Edible Yards," (page 55), case studies on space and the design options which include small, medium, and large spaces.

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And even with large spaces, the authors explain the necessity of creating a garden than can be managed. Of course, water and sunlight are imperative to plant growth, and the authors provide a through explanation of the pros and cons of watering and are explained more thoroughly in Chapter 7, "Planting and Tending Your Garden," (page 155).

Chapter 5, "Common and Uncommon Edible Plants," (page 103) presents charts of many of the most common and uncommon edible plants, herbs, vegetables, and fruits which can be grown in both small and large spaces. Beginning with plant identification, the authors have included "Edible Examples," "Characteristics," and what is needed to grow a healthy edible plant such as "drought tolerant," "grows in any soil," "needs morning sun."

The authors also offer information on "Classic Garden Vegetables," including crop type, ideal sun exposure, frost tolerant, planting temperature and best method. The authors continued their in-depth explanation of an edible garden in Chapter 6, "Garden Plans and Menus" (page 133), which presents edible weeds, edible flowers, culinary herbs, and tea garden menu (page 140) which includes plating tips on Jasmine, Ginger, and lavender among others.

Across these two chapters, every common and uncommon fruit, spice, herb, and vegetable is presented with gardening and planting tips that will turn any garden space into a fragrant delicious and soothing harvest year-round.

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Growing an Edible Landscape is a resource manual that does provide all the needed information on how to turn that idea of a garden, small or large, no matter the geographical region, into a blooming bountiful, delicious cornucopia of fresh fruit and vegetables.

Title: Growing an Edible Landscape, How to Transform Your Outdoor Space into a Food Garden.

Author: Gary Pilarchik, Chiara D'Amore, Ph.D.

Language: English.

Release Date: January 2024.

Publisher: Quarto Publishing.

Front Cover Image: Chiara D'Amore (top left and top center), Shutterstock/JoannaTKaczuk (top right); and judywhite/gardenPhotos.com (bottom).

Length: 192 pages.

ISBN13: 978-0-7603-8148-9.

MSRP: $27.99 (U.S.), £19.99 (UK), $37.99 (CAN.).