Beautiful American Vegetable Gardens

by Mary Tonetti Dorra

Book Overview

Presents a range of innovative garden designs, as well as tips on seed selection, cultivation, landscape design, and using produce.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517703041
• ISBN13: 9780517703045
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.2" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

A book of gardening dreams fulfilled

Beautiful American Vegetable Gardens, by Mary Tonetti Dorra takes you into a bucolic fantasy of enthralling design and impressive maintenance. These gardens were created to feed the eye as well as the stomach. It is filled with alluring photographs by Steve Elting, who captures the romance and variety of these splendid plots along with their abundant fruit. It is also filled with practical information on cultivation and design. There is no vegetable patch that wont profit from the experience, advice and sources shared by Dorra in her clear and unpretentious style The two dozen gardens range from magnificent to manageable, and cover all the geographic areas of the United States.