Tomatoes garlic basil
Subtitle: the simple pleasures of growing and cooking your garden's most versatile veggies
By: Doug Oster
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Lynn's Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780981961514
Subjects: Herb gardening; Vegetable gardening; Garlic; Cooking (Tomatoes); Basil; Cooking (Garlic); Tomatoes; Cooking (Basil)
Description: A guide to growing and cooking with tomatoes, garlic, and basil, discussing soil preparation, providing planting and harvesting instructions for each vegetable, and including recipes.
Notes: Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Food, family & gardens. Tears in Italy (where I discover the connection between home-grown food and happiness) ; The joy of preparing food you've grown yourself ; Gardens are good for you ; Kids in the garden ; Gardening in the city; title: Some garden basics. A word about soil ; Compost ; Curbside treasures ; Weeds ; Four-legged pests ; For the love of old tools; title: Tomatoes. Tomato favorites ; "The best tomato you've ever tasted" ; The kid in the tomato suit ; The 'mortgage lifter' tomato (and a brief how-to about cross-breeding ; Basic tomato growing ; Tomato planting techniques ; The garden dog ; Pruning : how, when; title: and why bother? ; Harvesting, sharing and preserving ; The first and the last : extending the tomato season ; Growing tomatoes in cold climates ; A passion for seeds ; 'Compost surprise' ; Saving seeds ; Tomato pests ; Tomato diseases ; Bragging; title: Garlic. Garlic in my genes ; Garlic favorites ; Planting garlic ; "What's that smell?" ; Garlic diseases ; Garlic pests; title: Basil. For the love of basil ; Storing and preserving basil ; Stephanie's basil story ; Growing basil indoors ; Saving basil seeds.