Drawing on a century's worth of family secrets for lush, exotic edibles, all grown in containers indoors, this book covers 47 varieties of fruiting plants - from chocolate to cherries, from papaya to passion fruit, from grapefruit to guava. It includes guidelines for caring for …
A guide to growing edible tropical plants in containers indoors, offering advice on selecting, caring for, and pruning forty-seven plants, including the Australian finger lime, tangerine, star fruit, and avocado, with recipes and photographs.
Imagine & nbsp;a cup of coffee brewed from beans grown right in your own kitchen. Or juice from an orange harvested from the living room. A salad sprinkled with olives plucked from a tree in the dining room. It's now possible in any climate, with Growing Tasty Tropical Plants in…
Laurelynn Martin and Byron Martin share decades of experience and family secrets in this practical guide to selecting, caring for, and pruning 47 tropical plants that bring beautiful foliage, lovely fragrances, and most -- appealing of all -- luscious fruits to every climate. --…
The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes--and thousands more--to the American plate. "In the nineteenth century American meals were about subsisten…
The true adventures of David Fairchild, a turn-of-the-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes ? and thousands more?to the American plate. "Fascinating." ?The New York Times Book Review "Fast-paced adventur…
The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes--and thousands more--to the American plate. "In the nineteenth century American meals were about subsisten…
CRC handbook of tropical food crops
The future of our food depends on seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat, Vavilov had traveled o…