Niki Jabbour's Veggie Garden Remix: 224 New Plants to Shake Up Your Garden and Add Variety, Flavor, and Fun

You can find a lot of information on the internet about unusual plants, but you must know the name of the plant. Niki gives you the names and her experience of many unusual plants and common, but unusual varieties. Sometimes you don't know the name of the rare and unusual thing you want to try. Her experience comes from having a garden in zone 5. There are also tips and tricks for extending the season of some plants as well. I have really enjoyed reading this book and expanding my garden diversity. Happy gardening!

I have had this book for 3 months and it looks like I've had it for years. I can't put it down. I have purchased one kind of seed from each category to mix things up this year. I can"t wait to get everything outside. Niki also gives good advice as of how to best care for each individual plant. It is not overwhelming, and just right to dare you to step out and try something new. Total game changer. update: the cucamelons, groundcherrries and yellow cucumbers (boothby's blonde) are doing very well, are delicious and are absolute 'crowd-pleasers", especially kids. Everyone visiting grabs as much as they can. I've had lots of seed requests. the different brassicae I've tried also did exceptionally well.

This is one of the best gardening books I have read in many years. For anyone with an interest in unusual vegetables there is no better book out there and it is a must have. I collect and read gardening books frequently but rarely these days do I start reading a book that I have a hard time putting down. Not only does the author cover so many unusual varieties (and well I might add) but what I love most is that she writes from personal experience. Her enthusiasm is contagious. Another thing that impressed me was how ornamental a lot of these underused edibles are and how they would be right at home in the flower bed or general landscaping and she suggests doing just that with many of them.

I liked to read about the interesting and unusual vegetables. I learned quite a few new things about edible plants that seem very unlikely!

Wow, what an interesting and useful book! And it's fun to read; it will make planning (and planting) my gardens fun too. Niki has useful information on each veggie, from planting to harvesting and cooking. The organization of the book (if you like that, try this), as described by other reviewers, was a brilliant idea. I first read it as a library book; then ordered it from Amazon (it arrives tomorrow) - I almost never do this. But it's also a great reference book, especially for those who - like me - enjoy growing new veggies best. Definitely a book you will want to own! Maximize your gardening fun and productivity - what could be better than that?

This entire book is about unusual veggies that are less common in the US, many of them Asian, but from other countries as well. Lots of greens, but other things as well, and the how, when, and where to grow them. This is the third book of her's I have purchased. She really does a good job no matter what she is writing about. Worth the money, and I would buy it again. Borrowed it from my library and decided to buy one for myself to use as reference.

This book is fantastic! It is packed with in-depth info about so many veggies you probably haven't grown before. I love the "like these?"/"try these" comparisons. And to top it off the book is beautiful. If you want to branch out with your vegetable garden and try new edibles, this is a wonderful resource.

Haven't been this excited by a gardening book in ages! Very original, great photos, well-written, and so wonderful to find fresh perspectives on planting veggies - and makes it easy to rethink what to grow, how to be successful at it without stressing, and why you might like to incorporate particular varieties.

Nikki Jabbour has a great style - easy to follow, passionate, personable, personal. Reading this book feels like having a good friend walk with you through her garden, where she just happens to grow lots of cool variants of most people's favourite veggies. The photographs are great, the descriptions are short & sweet; it's laid out magazine-style I thought, as opposed to like yet another "how to grow vegetables" tome. (Which are good to read too, of course.) This is a good book for people who grow and like traditional vegetables (beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes, peppers, etc.) and who want to find out more about funky alternatives for these kinds of vegetables. And that's how the book is laid out - short "chapters" that cover each vegetable family in a "if you like this, grow this-this-or-this" style. And what it does, it does really well - I like cucumbers myself, and would definitely like to try white or yellow cucumbers, or try some of the asian or indian varieties I'd never even heard of. However, actually growing these beautiful veg will involve getting seeds from sellers either online (on the net, pretty easy!) or at seed fairs (which happen each February/March where I'm from). The only thing I thought was missing was some more exotic perennial vegetables, which I would have liked to discover... I was kind of hoping for more about that when I purchased the book. But you can't have everything I suppose! A really nice addition to my gardening book collection, and I'll have fun cozying up with it some more, and getting inspiration for my modest garden for the next couple of winter months. Thanks Ms Jabbour!

One of the most exciting veggie garden books on the market! A fantastic layout, beautiful photography and incredible thought behind each sections. Well done!! I also recommend Niki's other gardening books, wonderful companions to any beginner gardner's collection.

It is informative and speaks to me. I like the various options presented to the gardener in me.

I enjoyed this book, using it as a reference for gardening in a Zone 5-6 area. I had a great garden last summer. Good companion to Niki Jabbour's other books.

Fantastic book with so many great ideas and alternatives to what we’re so used to growing. A must have for anyone wanting to grow veggies. I find myself looking through it over and over again, finding more new ideas of what to grow and how!