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From plot to plate, find out how to grow your own ingredients, cook your own food, and eat your own delicious meals! G Follow these easy instructions and you’ll have juicy R GROW IT tomatoes that make tasty roasted towers, plump O pumpkins for perfect pies, luscious strawberries for W mouth-watering meringues, and many more tempting treats. And you don’t need a garden: I T the plants in Grow It Cook It can all be grown in pots. Simple gardening projects and delicious recipes C CCCCOOOOOOOOKKKK IIIITTTT Learn how food grows, then O turn it into snacks, lunches, and dinners that O are fresh, flavorful, and good for you, too. K I T (cid:80)(cid:114)(cid:105)(cid:110)(cid:116)(cid:101)(cid:100)(cid:32)(cid:105)(cid:110)(cid:32)(cid:83)(cid:108)(cid:111)(cid:118)(cid:97)(cid:107)(cid:105)(cid:97) ISBN 978-0-7566-3367-7 (cid:36)(cid:49)(cid:53)(cid:46)(cid:57)(cid:57)(cid:32)(cid:85)(cid:83)(cid:65) 51599 Discover more at (cid:36)(cid:49)(cid:55)(cid:46)(cid:57)(cid:57)(cid:32)(cid:67)(cid:97)(cid:110)(cid:97)(cid:100)(cid:97) www.dk.com 9 780756 633677 Index medicines 48 minerals 42, 50 biodegradable 6, 40, 60 mulch 15, 29, 32, 68, 72 companion planting 5, 19, nitrogen-rich fertilizer 48 45, 57 nutrients 5, 14, 15 compost 5, 6, 14, 15, 44, 68 citrus compost 72 photosynthesis 11 compost container 14, 15 pollination 12-13 20, 24, compost with peat 68 28, 73 potting compost 44, 53 propagating 56 seed compost 20, 52 protein 33 crock 7, 36 pruning 69 fall 14, 36, 57, 68 raised bed 7 leaves 14, 15 seed box organizer 77 garden bugs 5, 14, 15 spring 28, 40, 44, 48, 52, aphids 5, 19, 32, 57 57, 60, 68, 72, 73 bees 10 stone markers 8 birds 5, 65, 68 summer 28, 40, 41, 52, 64, ladybugs 5 70, 72, 74 slugs 5, 32, 52, 65 snails 5, 52 vegetable peelings 14 germination 10, 20, 28, 40, vitamins 42, 46, 50, 73 44, 48, 49, 57, 76 weeds 15, 36, 40 ice-pop stick labels 9 winter 36, 41, 43, 72 wooden crate 53 leaf mold 15 GROW IT COOK IT Contents LONDON, NEW YORK, MELBOURNE, MUNICH, and DELHI Senior designer Sonia Whillock-Moore 4-5 Know it: Green-thumbed gardener Senior editor Deborah Lock Designers Sadie Thomas, Rachael Smith, 6-7 Know it: Pots and plots Gemma Fletcher US editor Margaret Parrish 8-9 Know it: Labels and markers Photography Will Heap Food stylist Annie Nichols 10-11 Know it: From seed to seedling RHS consultant Simon Maughan Food consultant Jill Bloomfield 12-13 Know it: From flower to fruit Category publisher Mary Ling 14-15 Know it: Recycle and renew Production editor Clare McLean Production controller Claire Pearson 16-17 Cook it: Kitchen know-how Jacket designers Sonia Moore, Sadie Thomas Jacket editor Mariza O’Keeffe 18-19 Grow it: Tomato Jacket copywriter Adam Powley 20-21 Grow it: Eggplant First published in the United States in 2008 by DK Publishing 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014 22-23 Cook it: Tomato and eggplant towers Foreword copyright © 2008 Jill Bloomfield Copyright © 2008 Dorling Kindersley Limited 24-25 Grow it: Zucchini 08 09 10 11 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 GD103 – 02/08 26-27 Cook it: Zucchini frittata All rights reserved under Pan-Americani and International Copyright 28-29 Grow it: Pumpkin Conventions. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, 30-31 Cook it: Mini pumpkin pies mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. Published in Great Britain by Dorling Kindersley Limited. 32-33 Grow it: Beans A catalog record for this book is available from 34-35 Cook it: Giant beanstalk stir-fry the Library of Congress ISBN 978-0-7566-3367-7 36-37 Grow it: Potato Color reproduction by MDP, UK Printed and bound by TBB, Slovakia 38-39 Cook it: Mashed potato fishcakes Discover more at 40-41 Grow it: Onions and leeks www.dk.com Foreword Growing your own fruits and vegetables is easy and fun. Imagine growing a pumpkin of 42-43 Cook it: Onion and leek soup your very own or a bunch of bright orange 44-45 Grow it: Carrots carrots. With tending 46-47 Cook it: Carrot and orange muffins and patience, a seed you sow will become a 48-49 Grow it: Spinach and beets tiny green seedling 50-51 Cook it: Green leaf tarts poking out of the dirt. By watering and feeding 52-53 Grow it: Lettuce your plant, it will become strong and bear blossoms and leaves. The plant will bud tiny 54-55 Cook it: Rainbow salad fruits or vegetables that will grow bigger and 56-57 Grow it: Mint bigger before your eyes. Imagine how fun 58-59 Cook it: Chocolate and mint mousse harvesting your fruits and vegetables will be! You might have lots of juicy tomatoes, sweet 60-61 Grow it: Sunflower strawberries, or shiny eggplants. 62-63 Cook it: Sunflower pot loaves You can share your harvest with others by 64-65 Grow it: Strawberries cooking these yummy recipes. Eating blueberry cheesecake in summer and pumpkin pies in 66-67 Cook it: Strawberry meringue fall reminds us that the freshest, healthiest, and 68-69 Grow it: Blueberries tastiest food is grown right in your own garden! 70-71 Cook it: Blueberry cheesecake So, get ready to plan your plot to grow the amazing ingredients you 72-73 Grow it: Lemon need to cook up a feast 74-75 Cook it: Lemonade ice-pops for family and friends. 76-77 Know it: Collecting seeds 78-79 Cook it: More recipe ideas 80 Index and Acknowledgments Green-thumbed gardener Know it Whatever you decide to grow, caring for your plants is the key to becoming a “green-thumbed” gardener. Thinking about what your plants need will help you choose what tools and equipment you need to have. Remember to wear old clothes because you’ll be getting your hands dirty! You’ll also need boots or shoes that you can get dirty. Trial and error is the way many gardeners Light learn. Finding out what works and what doesn’t is part of the fun of gardening. Plants need the Sun’s warmth but also protection from wind and rain. Find suitable places for growing your plants inside and outside. You need pots and containers or a small garden patch to grow your plants in. See page 6. Grow it symbols A sunny A warm, A place or slightly sheltered, with direct shaded place sunny place sunlight 4 Soil Support Compost adds Plants need good soil that goodness to the soil. Some plants need provides grip for the roots, prevents support as they grow tall, water from draining away, and is filled since their stems have to with nutrients (goodness) for healthy support the weight of the growing. You need a hand trowel, fruit. You need poles hand fork, and a small rake for and twine. preparing the soil for the plants. A wheelbarrow is useful, too. Cover the top of your pole to protect your eyes. See page 14 for tips on how to make your own rich, crumbly compost. Water Plants need water to make their food, but some plants need less water than others. Water in the soil is drawn up by the roots and transported to the leaves through the stem. Also, spraying some plants Support your with water helps their fruit to large fruit in set. You need a watering hammocks made can and a spray bottle. from the netting of an orange bag. Protection Protect young plants from Plants need to be protected from hungry slugs some garden bugs and diseases. There and snails by are many creatures that eat the pests, putting them such as birds and ladybugs, on a tabletop. which eat aphids. Strong-scented Use eggshells around the herbs may drive away any plants as well. pests with their smell. Also try companion Use netting to planting—see pages stop birds from 19 and 45. eating the fruit. 5 Pots and plots Know it You’ll need pots and containers in all shapes and sizes, depending on what plants you decide to grow, and for keeping them healthy throughout their growing stages. Small pots Small pots for sowing seeds need to be between 2 in (5 in) and 3 in (7.5 cm) deep in size. Start a collection of yogurt Pots and more pots and dessert cups and tubs. They can all Transform your balcony or patio by growing be reused as pots. plants in an array of pots of all shapes, sizes, and colors. Empty yogurt Ice-pop sticks pots that have can be used been washed as labels Odd pots out well Biodegradable egg cartons that will rot away when put directly into soil Reuse ice cream tubs Cut off the top of a to plant seeds; use lids large plastic container as drip trays. and it becomes a pot. To prepare the small pots, ask an adult to make a couple of holes Empty in the bottom for dessert cups drainage, using a pair of scissors or something A plastic egg similar with a sharp carton can become point. Fill the pot with a mini greenhouse rich seedling potting soil ready to sow your seeds. Preparing pots Large pots Medium pots between 5 in (12 cm) and 6 in (15 cm) across are needed for transplanting seedlings that have outgrown their sowing pot but are not yet ready to be kept outside all the time. You will also need long containers about 12 in (30 cm) long and large containers between 8 in (20 cm) to 1 14 in (35 cm) across. Ask an adult to make some holes in the bottom of the container if there are none. Potatoes in tires A laundry basket, old boots, or even an old drawer are some of the unusual ideas for a plant container. Line them with a waterproof plastic sheet, punch out a few small 2 Place some crock holes, and they’re ready to use. (pieces of broken pots) or some large stones over the holes. These will prevent the soil from draining away through the holes when you are watering the plants. If you have the space, you could grow your plants in your own yard. Make a small raised bed so that you don’t step on the soil to get 3 Fill the container with to your plants. rich soil ready for a plant. Labels and markers Know it As you plant your seeds, remember to add a label. When seedlings appear, it can get very confusing to identify Some vegetables which plant is which. Your labels can be and fruits have many varieties, which means each as simple as writing on ice-pop sticks, one will be different. Look or you can have some fun making and out for the variety on the decorating your own. seed packet and include it on your label. Stone markers Mark the pots that you have used with colorful stones. What eye-catching designs will you paint? Maybe paint a stone in one color and then Paint choose another color for a flower or the first letter of your name. 8
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