Melons for the Passionate Grower

Title: Melons for the Passionate Grower
Author: Amy Goldman
ISBN: 9781579652135
Publisher: Artisan
Published: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 0
Number of Pages: 176
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
C: 1697833
Section: Photography | Photoessays & Documentaries
Publisher Description: This year's heirloom tomato is a melon!

Acclaimed gardener Amy Goldman, known to viewers of Martha Stewart and PBS, is a dedicated seed saver working to preserve fast-disappearing varieties of heirloom melons. Her book, "Melons for the Passionate Grower, " is a celebration of the speckled, bumpy, oh-so-sweet world of the melon--from Minnesota Midget and Georgia Rattlesnake to Ali Baba and Sweet Siberian.

Here she profiles more than one hundred varieties, each showcased in a full-color photographic still life recalling eighteenth- and nineteenth-century botanical paintings and engravings. Goldman also offers expert advice on cultivating and selecting your own melons, as well as the rudiments of seed saving.