Pot It, Grow It, Eat It: Home-Grown Produce from Pot to Pan

by Kathryn Hawkins

What could be more satisfying than growing your own fruit and vegetables and then eating them, freshly picked? There’s no need to have lots of land: it can be done anywhere—in windowsill containers, balconies, and small backyards. This combination growing guide and cookbook explains how anyone, anywhere can go straight from pot to pan. It offers:

 

- A how-to of cultivation: tools and materials, containers, and siting

 

- An illustrated A–Z vegetable, herb and fruit directory, with each entry listing planting, siting, maintenance and harvesting details, plus storing and freezing instructions

 

- A cookbook chapter, with 25 fresh, simple recipes for appetizers, entrees, and desserts

 

This is the perfect book for a holistic, healthy lifestyle!

 

 

Genres: Nonfiction, Gardening, Food

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Susie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Inspiring, especially for beginner container gardeners. Fabulous growing tips & recipes. UK publication so doesn’t list growing zones, but recipes have measurement conversions.

[Andrea Hickman Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

My mother gave this book to my sister for Christmas. I flipped through it briefly and decided I had to have it. So now I do. I've got plenty of edible plants growing already, but here's information on the right places for them (and explains why my spinach keeps dying - it doesn't like full sun) and when to harvest them for best effect. I'm really looking forward to trying out sweetcorn. It appears that my lettuces are going to have to be moved, but more of them came up than I was expecting, so that's going to have to happen anyway. I'm so excited to get back into my garden, and to trying out the recipes in this book and (more of the ones) in the my link text">Riverford Farm Cook Book with my own produce.

[Latasha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Turns out I really like pictures. If these books have pictures I am much more likely to tune in. This one was my favorite of the ones I have read because it discusses which plants are easiest for beginners.

[Elaine · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a lovely book, with clear instructions and novel ideas for container vegetable and fruit tree gardening.

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

about using things you grow in your garden - had some good recipes
it had to go back to the library :(