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Forti, John, author.
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Heirloom varieties (Plants)
Vegetables -- Seeds,
Fruit-culture -- Seeds.
Herbs -- Seeds.
Vegetable gardening.
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The heirloom gardene...
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The heirloom gardener : traditional plants & skills for the modern world / John Forti ; [illustrations by Mary Azarian ; endpapers by Patricia Wakida].
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Forti, John, author.
Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2021.
Subjects
Heirloom varieties (Plants)
Vegetables -- Seeds,
Fruit-culture -- Seeds.
Herbs -- Seeds.
Vegetable gardening.
ISBN:
9781604699937 (hardback)
1604699930
Description:
263 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents:
Angelica -- Apple cart -- Artisanal skills -- Bee balm -- Biodiversity -- Botanizing and herbaria -- Chestnut -- Cordials -- Dandelion -- Distillation -- Dooryard gardens -- Edible flowers -- Elder -- Elm -- Ethnobotany -- Fiddleheads -- Floriculture -- Foraging -- Garden craft -- Gruit -- Heirlooms -- Herbalism -- Indigenous plants -- Jack-o-lanterns -- Johnny-jump-ups -- Kelp -- Kitchen craft -- Kitchen gardens -- Language of flowers -- Lawn -- Maple syrup -- May Day -- Milkweed -- Nasturtium -- Old ways -- Organic growing practices -- Perennial crops -- Queen Anne's lace -- Quince -- Raised beds -- Rhubarb -- Rosemary -- Sage -- Seasonality -- Sorrel -- Tea -- Thanksgiving grace -- Tonics -- Valerian -- Victory gardens -- Wattle -- Wreaths -- Wuttahimneash -- Xeriscaping -- Yards -- Yarrow -- Zinnia -- Zucchini.
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Forti celebrates gardening as a craft, and shares the plants, lore, and traditional practices that link us with our environment and each other. Arranged alphabetically from angelica to zucchini, the brief chapters are a trove of garden history to different elements of the craftsmanship behind building an heirloom garden-- and a happy homestead. -- adapted from back cover and Introduction.
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