Product Description

The only single-volume guide to vegetables any gardener could need. Illustrated throughout with color photographs that show the different kinds of each vegetable and how they look in situ, the book documents more than 650 types of vegetable, mainly those that can be grown in North America and northern Europe, but includes popular Asian specialties. Each is accompanied by descriptions of the vegatble's history and its cultivational needs.

Though not mainly a source of gardener's tips, the book offers simple instructions to the grower, as well as fodder for anyone curious to know more about the first European sighting of potatoes (1537) or the multitudes of possible potatoes ("Duke of York"; "Epicure"; "Mona Lisa").

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #171226 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

About the Author

Roger Phillips is an award-winning photographer with a reputation spanning thirty years. He has consistently pioneered the use of colour photography for the reliable identification of natural history subjects, and has wrtten more than 20 books dedicated to this purpose.

Customer Reviews

A very attractive and useful book
This book has loads of information on the history and description of hundreds (over 650) vegetables and their varieties. The photographs are superb. The book does not concentrate on cultivation however and does not include cereals.