Beautiful American vegetable gardens / Mary Tonetti Dorra ; photographs by Steve Eltinge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dorra, Mary Tonetti.

Contributor:

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vegetable gardening--United States.

Vegetable gardening.

Organic gardening.

United States.

Organic gardening--United States.

Penn Provenance:

Malgieri, Nick (donor) (inscription) (Malgieri Collection copy)

Dorra, Mary Tonetti (autograph) (Malgieri Collection copy)

Physical Description:

192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Other Title:

American vegetable gardens

Place of Publication:

New York : Clarkson. Potter/Publishers, [©1997]

Summary:

Region by region, Mary Dorra visits 24 gardeners from Maine to California, from Minnesota to Georgia, discovering vegetable gardens that are as dazzling to the eye as they are productive for the kitchen. Whether the innovations are garden designs - with towering beanpoles or in a patchwork-quilt pattern - or selection of vegetables, each garden offers a new way to look at an old-fashioned gardening tradition. The gardeners share their expert advice about how to grow prize-winning favorites and how to design a garden that integrates vegetables with flowering trees and shrubs, perennials, annuals, and herbs. More than 250 full-color photographs illustrate the ant's-eye view of the cabbage as well as the eagle's view of the entire garden, resources direct gardeners to the best seed catalogs (including sources for American heirloom seeds), nurseries, and reference books; tips from the gardeners provide general cultivation basics; and a selection of garden plans offers ideas on design.

Contents:

New England: hardy garden traditions

The Mid-Atlantic and South: challenges and solutions

The Midwest: lessons of the prairie

The Far West: the ultimate mix

A beautiful vegetable garden guide.

Notes:

"First Edition."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-188) and index.

Local Notes:

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.

Malgieri Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Malgieri Collection copy inscribed "For my new friend Nick - Happy gardening. Mary Tonetti Dorra".

Malgieri Collection copy has [7] leaves of Mary Dorra's recipes laid in.

Other Format:

Online version: Dorra, Mary Tonetti. Beautiful American vegetable gardens.

ISBN:

0517703041 :

9780517703045

OCLC:

34886906

Online:

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