Groundbreaking Food Gardens

Follow your zany muse and get creative with your vegetable garden. Niki Jabbour brings you 73 novel and inspiring food garden designs that include a cocktail garden featuring all the ingredients for your favorite drinks, a spicy retreat comprising 24 varieties of chile peppers, and a garden that's devoted to supplying year-round salad greens. Created by celebrated gardeners, each unique design is accompanied by both plant lists and charming anecdotes. This fully illustrated collection glitters with off-beat personality and quirkiness. From a front-yard farm to a chile lover's plot, growers of every stripe will find inventive designs for growing food in any space.
Niki Jabbour is the award-winning author of Growing Under Cover, Niki Jabbour's Veggie Garden Remix, The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener, and Groundbreaking Food Gardens. Her work is found in Fine Gardening, Garden Making, Birds & Blooms, Horticulture, and other publications, and she speaks widely on food gardening at events and shows across North America. She is the host and creator of The Weekend Gardener radio show. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and can be found online at nikijabbour.com. 
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About the Contributors


Urban Farmscape - Patti Marie Travioli
Culinary Herbs for Beginners - Susan Appleget Hurst
Pollinator-Friendly Raised Bed - Paul Zammit
Beautiful Balcony Edibles - Andrea Bellamy
Southern-Style Backyard Farm - Carolyn Binder
Edibles on a Patio - Donna Balzer
American Potager - Jennifer R. Bartley
Eggs & Everything - Jessi Bloom
Fig-Pig Patio - Steven Biggs
Critter Control - Karen Chapman
Eat Your Yard - Nan K. Chase
Partially Shaded Vegetables - Marjorie Harris
Sidebar: Windy City Harvest
Small Space Beds - The Chicago Botanic Garden
The Circle of Life - Emma Cooper
Sunburst Veggie Garden - Shawna Coronado
Sidebar: Living Walls
Formal Herb Garden - Kate Copsey
Chile Lover's Garden - Dave DeWitt
Starter Kitchen Garden - Roger Doiron
Sidebar: Lasagna Gardening
Formal Kitchen Garden - Ellen Ecker Ogden
Grocery Garden - Jenks Farmer
Backyard Orchard - Colby Eierman
Front-Yard Foraging - Sarah Elton
Canner's Garden - Daniel Gasteiger
Slow-Food Garden - Laura Henderson
Power Foods - Dan Jason
Heirloom Sampler - Marie Iannotti
Wildlife-Friendly Garden - Tammi Hartung
Hanging Gutters - Jayme Jenkins
Modern Truck Garden - Leslie Land
Vintage Victory Garden - Lamanda Joy
Asian Vegetables - Wendy Kiang-Spray
Garden Squares for Kids - Karen Liebreich and Jutta Wagner
Urban Homestead - Theresa Loe
Teaming with Microbes - Jeff Lowenfels
Urban Shade Garden - Kathy Martin
Edible Knot Garden - Karen Atkins
Vertical Vegetables - Rhonda Massingham Hart
Culinary Courtyard - Rachel Mathews
Concrete & Steel Garden - Laura Mathews
Front-Yard Suburban Farm - Chris McLaughlin
Southern Spring Garden - Dee Nash
Founding Fathers Garden - Teresa O'Connor
Terraced Hillside - Barbara Pleasant
Edible Hedge - Charlie Nardozzi
Italian Heritage Garden - Doug Oster
Community Plot - Michael Nolan
Edible Cutting Garden - Debra Prinzing
Biodynamic Farm - Mac Mead
Garlic Sampler - Liz Primeau
Rooftop Farm - Colin McCrate and Hilary Dahl
Gourmet Containers - Renee Shepherd and Beth Benjamin
Cocktail Garden - Amy Stewart and Susan Morrison
Chicago Hot-Dog Garden - Amanda Thomsen
Upcycled Edible Patio - Jean Ann Van Krevelen
Pallet Garden - Joe Lamp'l
"Good Bug" Garden - Jessica Walliser
Elizabethan Garden - Stephen Westcott-Gratton
Sidebar: An Easy Way to Expand Your Existing Garden
Forager's Garden - Ellen Zachos
Water-Wise Herbs & More - Nan Sterman
Beat the Grocery Bill - Mark Cullen
Fall & Winter Vegetables - Niki Jabbour
52 Weeks of Salad - Michelle Chapman
Edible School Garden - Benjamin Eichorn
Backyard Brewer's - Rebecca Kneen
OTTO Pizza Garden - Toby Adams and Annie Novak
Year-Round Front-Yard Garden - Rebecc