Niki Jabbour's Veggie Garden Remix

2019 American Horticultural Society Book Award Winner

2019 GardenComm Media Awards Gold Medal Winner



Best-selling author Niki Jabbour invites you to shake up your vegetable garden with an intriguing array of 224 plants from around the world. With her lively "Like this? Then try this!" approach, Jabbour encourages you to start with what you know and expand your repertoire to try related plants, many of which are delicacies in other cultures. Jabbour presents detailed growing information for each plant, along with fun facts and plant history. Be prepared to have your mind expanded and catch Jabbour's contagious enthusiasm for experimentation and fun in the garden. Avid vegetable gardeners will love the challenge to shake up their routine with 224 intriguing plants. Many are favorites from cultures around the globe. All offer exciting flavors and textures and novel colors and shapes.
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.  Introduction



Like tomatoes?

   Try ground cherries, Cape gooseberries, tomatillos

   Bonus: Unusual tomato varieties

Like cucumbers?

   Try cucamelons, West Indian burr gherkins, cucumber melons

   Bonus: Unusual cucumber varieties

Like summer squash?

   Try bottle gourds, snake gourds, luffa gourds

   Bonus: Unusual summer squash varieties

Like snap beans?

   Try yard-long beans, hyacinth beans, edamame, chickpeas, daylily buds

   Bonus: Unusual snap bean varieties

Like arugula?

   Try mizuna, mustard, Italian dandelions, turnip greens

Like lettuce?

   Try celtuce, minutina, Tokyo bekana, mache

Like asparagus?

   Try hosta shoots, asparagus peas

Like cabbage?

   Try Chinese cabbage, yu choy sum, komatsuna

   Bonus: Unusual cabbage varieties

Like broccoli?

   Try 'Spigariello liscia', 'Piracicaba', Romanesco, gai lan, sea kale, huauzontle

Like potatoes?

   Try Jerusalem artichokes, groundnuts, Chinese artichokes, daylily tubers, dahlia tubers

   Bonus: Unusual potato varieties

Like spring radishes?

   Try daikons, black Spanish radishes

   Bonus: Unusual radish varieties

Like bulb onions?

   Try Japanese bunching onions, Egyptian walking onions

   Bonus: Unusual bulb onion varieties

Like parsnips?

   Try Hamburg parsley

Want more options?

   Grow these unusual varieties of peppers, winter squash, peas, eggplants, kale, carrots, beets, and turnips

   Nine global herbs you need to know



Acknowledgments

Photography credits

Index Award-winning author Niki Jabbour introduces you to more than 200 curious varieties of veggies from around the world that will expand your garden in exciting and delicious ways. Start with familiar favorites like broccoli, tomatoes, or cucumbers, then let your imagination go wild with choices like cucamelons, Cape gooseberries, and 'Piracicaba" broccoli. Make your vegetable garden a treasure trove of flavors!
"Read this book, have a notepad ready, and prepare for a new, international gardening experience. It's how we grow." - Country Gardens 



"You'll find acres of inspiration for your spring potager fantasies in this guide." - Modern Farmer



"A wonderful surprise of a book. Jabbour shakes up gardeners' assumptions on how our "conventional" vegetables should look or taste-from tomatoes to potatoes, onions to summer squash." - Booklist



"Loaded with lush photos throughout, this attractive book will appeal