Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces |  | Author: Gayla Trail
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1 Original
Pages: 208
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0307452018
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.0484
EAN: 9780307452016
Publication Date: February 2, 2010
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Recipe from Grow Great Grub: Root Vegetable Fries 
Ingredients:
1 large carrot
1 large potato
1 large sweet potato
1 large beet
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary
Salt and pepper Roasted potatoes are good and all, but a roasted root vegetable medley is just as easy to make and a little bit fancy, too. Substitute any root vegetable, including starchy potatoes, turnip, parsnip, celery root, or rutabaga. While the veggies are roasting, toss a garlic bulb or two into the pan at about the 30-minute mark--the result: easy, creamy garlic! Yum. 1. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Cut the vegetables into 1/2"-wide spears and toss in a roasting pan with olive oil and herbs to coat. Keep the peels on; that’s where the vitamins are. 2. Roast for approximately 40 minutes, turning regularly until all sides have turned a golden brown and the fries are cooked straight through. Serves 2–4
Product Description
Your patio, balcony, rooftop, front stoop, boulevard, windowsill, planter box, or fire escape is a potential fresh food garden waiting to happen. In Grow Great Grub, Gayla Trail, the founder of the leading online gardening community (YouGrowGirl.com), shows you how to grow your own delicious, affordable, organic edibles virtually anywhere.
Grow Great Grub packs in tips and essential information about:
- Choosing a location and making the most of your soil (even if it’s less than perfect)
- Building a raised bed, compost bin, and self-watering container using recycled materials
- Keeping pests and diseases away from your plants—the toxin-free way
- Growing bountiful crops in pots and selecting the best heirloom varieties
- Cultivating hundreds of plants, from blueberries to Thai basil, to the best tomatoes you’ll ever taste
- Canning, and preserving to make the most of your garden’s generosity
- Green-friendly, cost-saving, growing, and building projects that are smart and stylish
- And much more!
Whether you’re looking to eat on a budget or simply experience the pleasure of picking tonight’s meal from right outside your door, this is the must-have book for small-space gardeners—no backyard required.
GAYLA TRAIL is the creator of the acclaimed top gardening website yougrowgirl.com. Her work as a writer and photographer has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Newsweek, Budget Living, and ReadyMade. A resident of Toronto who has grown a garden on her rooftop for more than 10 years, she is the author of You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening.
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Another Great Book By Gayle Trail - Makes Gardening Easier and More Fun! February 7, 2010
Bold Consumer (USA)
51 out of 51 found this review helpful
I bought "Grow Great Grub" because I got so much out of "You Grow Girl". I really didn't see how the author could come up with that much excellent material again, but she did.
You probably should stop reading and just buy the book. The quality is excellent. Photographs are beautiful. The book is easy to read and doesn't waste time. Well done!
Pictures of what vegetables are supposed to look like always help. I'm always turning to my neighbor and asking, "Did I plant that or is it a weed?" Usually the neighbor says it's a weed, but I'm never sure.
The text covers harvesting, drying, preserving, and storing, only one of which I want to do, harvesting, but the other topics are beautifully covered for those who are ready. I'm pushing my luck just to grow and harvest a plant from seed. Maybe next year I'll preserve and store.
She lists plants that grow well in depleted soil, shady or very hot spots and makes coverage interesting on topics of nutrients, fertilizers, containers, pests, building self-watering planter boxes cheaper than buying, a great idea.
I learned about heat-loving spinach I was already growing, but had no idea what it needed! Lists of recommended varieties of vegetables and those that work well in containers are especially helpful.
Now I know when to harvest vegetables, something that always baffled me, including when to dig up onions, when to stop watering, and hang them to cure, and when my radishes were ready to harvest, unfortunately I didn't learn that in time for the current crop, how radishes can be used as a pest repellent for squash, that carrots are slow to germinate but ready to eat at any size, and when potatoes are ready to harvest. I had been about to pull mine out to check. I'm glad I didn't. I had no idea some gardeners say squash plants produce too much squash! I can't wait to have that problem. She covers spacing and staking squash plants, preferred pot size for these space hogs, when to pluck them for best taste, and how to help pollinate, "to make sure the job gets done."
Sections cover special needs of tomatoes, potatoes, blueberries, cucumbers, squash, and radishes, etc.
My notes include why not to let water splash up on lower leaves of tomato plants and how to give them certain nutrients while making leaves and stems, when to stop so they will produce fruit, and when and what to give them at that point. There are special planting needs, since they have lots of root growth, and companion plants for best use of space. Then she gave the best definition I've heard of the differences between determinate, indeterminate, semi-determinate (new to me), dwarf hybrid tomatoes, and which one is right for me.
There is a section on growing fruit in small pots. Now I think I'll grow some strawberries after all. Blueberries - hedge or containers. I think I'll do both. I learned why nothing grows around my pine tree and why blueberries might, why, what and how to prune out to increase growth and discourage fungal problems, needs of high-bush and low-bush blueberries, which one is right for me, how to get the best crops by promoting cross-pollination, when and when not to pick flowers off so the plant can put its energy into growing healthy roots, why/why not to grow fruit from seed, how to prepare citrus soil for fruit plants, when and when not to water, how much sun and heat they need, and how long it takes for them to grow fruit, I might have given up, and finally, how to plant, elevate, and hand-pollinate.
How did she make all this so interesting and easy to read? I don't know, but I'll be referring to this book often. It's a keeper!
If you've ever had any interest in growing your own food, BUY THIS BOOK NOW. February 2, 2010
Karen Walrond (Houston, Texas)
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
When you first open this book, you'll notice it's beautiful. Seriously beautiful. The photographs are vivid, and the layout is really extraordinary. But then once you get past that, you start to realize it is crammed full of all kinds of information that would be helpful to both the novice gardener and the serious food-grower.
A really, really exemplary sophomore effort by Trail. Run-do-not-walk to buy this great work.
You will love this book! February 11, 2010
Jill M. Maine (Staples, MN usa)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the first gardening book I have bought and it was worth it!
You can tell she has such a passion for gardening that you can't help but love it even more too!
Photographs are wonderful also! very creative.
Get excited about gardening... this book is all you need! March 15, 2010
Karen Beth Martin (Oxford, MS, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've always thought I had a black thumb. I've killed things that it was thought impossible to kill. I had all but given up. But, I got a bee in my bonnet to grow my own food this year and went on Etsy to buy heirloom, organic seeds. One of the sellers I bought seeds from recommended this book. I am SO glad she did! This book has completely turned me on to gardening the organic way. Not only is this book chockabock full of great tips, the photos are so beautiful that it makes me want to run out and try my hand at growing anything and everything possible. (Shiso? Never heard of it but... yes please!) Love that Gayla uses recycled containers and repurposed items (REUSE BEFORE YOU RECYCLE!!!) I've read this book through and continue to pour over it whenever I have a minute or two. In short... FIVE stars aren't enough. A hundred stars for this amazing book that has given me a new hobby, one that I never thought would be for me.
And here is the proof:
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Gorgeous! Thanks Gayla!
Great Info for the Beginner and Inspirational for All Gardeners March 28, 2010
Susan R. Morris (Malvern, OH United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great book, especially for the beginning gardener. I blog about gardening and am always getting questions about composting, how to start seeds, how to build good soil, etc. I will start recommending this book to my beginning gardener readers! Its explains easily and simply how to do so many gardening tasks from building a raised bed to composting. It's the perfect books for someone getting started because it doesn't get bogged down with too much information and isn't overwhelming. It promoted gardening as easy and fun (which it is).
Gardening is a learning process, we learn as we go. It's not necessary to know everything there is to know before setting off. This book does a fantastic job and giving a great overview with enough information and inspiration to get people interesting in growing food. Some beginners may find they need more in depth information than is presented in this book, especially about specific topics, but a book can't cover everything in such depth. There are many books for each specific area of gardening that can be read if you need more information about any particular topic, like composting, seed starting, or growing garlic.
The best part of this book is the photos. Photos are definitely something that engages people and draws them into the beauty of gardening, especially growing food. I find books like this easy to read and a joy to look through. The photos are definitely an inspiration and serve their purpose to encourage people to Grow Great Grub in their small spaces! It's an inspiration to me to keep documenting my garden through photos on my blog.
This book is not just for the beginning gardener. I found many tips that were useful for me and and the list of plants for difficult spaces is a great resource (I'll be adding this to my garden notebook). It seems that not many of us have the "ideal" garden spaces, so listing plants for these less than perfect areas is something not many books talk about. You'll most likely find yourself tagging pages or jotting down notes in your notebook as you read.
Even though I don't buy many books (always try from the library first) and I already have a pretty good gardening library, this book will most likely be added to my library soon!
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