Groundbreaking Food Gardens

Groundbreaking Food Gardens: 73 Plans That Will Change the Way You Grow Your Garden - by Niki Jabbour

This book features garden designs from horticulturists, community gardeners, bloggers and writers, television and radio hosts, and other gardeners. Written by Nova Scotia’s own Niki Jabbour.

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.

About the Author

NIKI JABBOUR is the award-winning author of four books.  She also writes for magazines like Fine Gardening, Horticulture, and Birds & Blooms.  Niki is an in-demand speaker, offering seminars and keynotes at events, shows, societies, and greenhouses across North America such as the Northwest Flower & Garden Show, The Dow Gardens, and Canada Blooms.  Since 2006, Niki has hosted and executive produced her popular radio show, The Weekend Gardener which airs on News 95.7 FM in Halifax as well as online.  For her broadcasting work, Niki won the 2015 Gold Award from GardenComm as ‘Best On-Air Talent’.  When she’s not writing, speaking, or broadcasting about food gardening Niki is harvesting year-round from her twenty raised bed vegetable garden in Halifax, Nova Scotia which is filled with an eclectic mixture of popular vegetables like tomatoes, cucumbers, and beans, as well as unique heirloom varieties, and crops from around the world like cucamelons, snake gourds, and za’atar.

Author: Niki Jabbour
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Copyright © 2014
ISBN: 9781612120614
Paperback: 272 pages
Dimensions: 8" x 10"