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There is a world of gourmet garden salads with many delights to be discovered and here you will find some suggestions to explore it further. Many of these books have an electronic edition.

The Martha Stewart Gardening Collection – Martha’s Spring Garden

Author: Martha Stewart

This double DVD collection from Martha Stewart covers it all, from designing gardens to making delicious gourmet garden recipes to an additional segment on some gorgeous garden tours. There’s over six hours of engaging and helpful tips, techniques, and suggestions on garden design and enjoying the fruit of your hard labour. Both beginning and seasons gardeners will appreciate this DVD for it many beneficial and entertaining segments.

Moosewood Restaurant Kitchen Garden: Creative Gardening for the Adventurous Cook

Author: David Hirsch

There’s over 300 pages of comprehensive gardening and culinary information within book, with many illustrations to help keep your interest throughout. A seasoned speaker, author, and chef from the Moosewood Restaurant in Ithica, NY, Hirsch provides invaluable insight as a culinary expert on what to plant, how to prepare the foods you grow, and how to care for gardens for best results. Of course, the book includes a number of recipes that feature the herbs, edible flowers, and vegetables covered in earlier sections.

Rosalind Creasy’s Recipes from the Garden: 200 Exciting Recipes from the Author of the Complete Book of Edible Landscaping

Author: Rosalind Creasy

Creasy has written a number of books of edible herbs, flowers, and edible landscaping, and this 200-page treasure trove of healthy recipes is worthy of the same accolades the others have received. Instead of concentrating on the horticultural aspects of these other gardening guides, this inspirational cookbook provides the type of gourmet garden fare even those without a green thumb can enjoy in the kitchen.

Salad as a Meal: Healthy Main-Dish Salads for Every Season

Author: Patricia Wells

Yes, a salad can make a hearty, healthy meal all by itself any time of year, if you include the right ingredients. Seasoned culinary veteran Patricia Wells offers simple yet satisfying main course salads that add gourmet ingredients for an extra special touch. The emphasis includes many exotic ingredients, and also covers a wide range of meats, sauces, and breads that make great accompaniments to the salad creations in this huge 368-page book of bountiful ideas.

The Complete Kitchen Garden: An Inspired Collection of Garden Designs and 100 Seasonal Recipes

Author: Ellen Ecker Ogden

Here’s a delightful read that serves double duty in introducing many practical and specific garden types and designs, while still offering 100 recipes for feasting on the home-grown produce you can create with this guide. Ms. Ogden is a Vermont native with a wealth of food-related writing experience, and co-owns a popular seed company called The Cook’s Garden. You’ll learn plenty of information here to dress up your backyard and your kitchen recipes by the honest advice and simple, flavorful recipes you’ll find here.

The Salad Garden (Garden Bookshelf)

Author: Joy Larkcom

Larkcom’s book is a complete guide to planting and harvesting salad plants and vegetables, and also includes tips on how to prepare and cook the many possibilities she covers. In particular, fans have raved about the extensive coverage of some little-known techniques in this book, and the author’s experience with the subject matter shines through in the pages within.

The Vegetable Gardener’s Container Bible: How to Grow a Bounty of Food in Pots, Tubs, and Other Containers

Author: Edward C. Smith

This delightful book features container gardening to show how anyone can cultivate and harvest home-grown vegetables even if they don’t have a large plot to place a large garden. Smith provides layouts and formulas for growing greens and other produce on porches and other small areas with easy-to-understand guidelines for getting great results from containers. The 264-page book is richly illustrated, and the section on creating self-watering containers is particularly interesting.

Apartment Gardening: Plants, Projects, and Recipes for Growing Food in Your Urban Home

Author: Amy Pennington

Most people think a basic requirement for growing garden vegetables and edible plants is to have a house with lots of outdoor space to cultivate and tend. Not so, according to this 192-page book written by urban native Amy Pennington, who builds backyard gardens for city dwellers through her company GoGo Green Garden. Here, you’ll experience the wonder of growing blackberries, squash, and herbs in the most unlikely places, as well as those with much more space and land to do so. The book includes recipes to enjoy the bounty of your portable harvest as well.

P. Allen Smith’s Seasonal Recipes from the Garden

Author: P. Allen Smith

Here’s another all-encompassing book on garden recipes that include vegetables with main dishes, soups, sandwiches, breads, and even desserts. The book is also conveniently divided between the seasons, to offer suggestions for any time of year. Smith’s library of garden-themed books is extensive, and this one is a great addition to any fan’s collection. His credits as garden designer include a syndicated television show and a familiar brand-name authority for gourmet gardens and cooking.

Greens Glorious Greens: More than 140 Ways to Prepare All Those Great-Tasting, Super-Healthy, Beautiful Leafy Greens

Author: Johnna Albi and Catherine Walthers

Garden greens, and lots of them, are the premise of this great 280-page book about including exotic greens in your gourmet garden and in your diet. Here you’ll find over 140 recipes on everything from bok choy to kale to mesclun, dandelion, and other interesting salad greens. Gardeners will also get some tips on how to raise healthy plants right, to ensure a delicious finish to your home gardening adventure.

 

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