Heirloom Vegetables: A Home Gardener's Guide to Finding and Growing Vegetables from the Past

by Sue Stickland, Kent Whealy, David Cavagnaro (Photographer)

Discusses the history of more than 350 heirloom varieties of vegetables and offers tips on how best to seed, grow, and harvest them

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Reference

191 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1998

Reviews

[Irma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gorgeous photography.

[Alexandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Delightful food photography and background on the origins of many vegetables.

[Megan · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first half of the book talks about heirlooms in general, and the second half reads like a seed catalog. There are photos, like the book description says, but they're a few collage photos -- one with several kinds of tomatoes, another with kales, etc. The plant description part itself is not photographed. So, while the first half of the book was nicely written, I didn't learn anything new from it. And the second half wasn't particularly interesting to me. That's probably just a result of its age -- I imagine that two decades ago, it wasn't nearly so easily to find gorgeously photographed heirloom seed catalogs where one could actually purchase the varieties mentioned.