Veggie Remix: Bring New Flavors & Colors into Your Garden! • presented by Niki Jabbour
Meet the presenter
Guest author is the author of several award-winning vegetable gardening books, including The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener, Groundbreaking Food Gardens, Veggie Garden Remix, and Growing Under Cover. Her books have twice earned the American Horticultural Society Book Award, and she has collected several Gold Awards from the Association for Garden Communicators. She speaks often, hosted a garden radio program for years, and contributes to SavvyGardening.com.
Guest author is the author of several award-winning vegetable gardening books, including The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener, Groundbreaking Food Gardens, Veggie Garden Remix, and Growing Under Cover. Her books have twice earned the American Horticultural Society Book Award, and she has collected several Gold Awards from the Association for Garden Communicators. She speaks often, hosted a garden radio program for years, and contributes to SavvyGardening.com.
Below are the slide deck and written resources from this past webinar.
OVERVIEW: Our guest, a popular garden author, makes the case for shaking up your vegetable plot with unusual crops from many cultures: cucamelons, Armenian cucumbers (botanically a melon), ground cherries, snake gourds, orach, tatsoi and others. Her enthusiasm for experimenting and enjoying the garden is contagious.
Webinar Resources
Veggie Remix webinar slides (PDF)
Download a recap of the Veggie Remix webinar. View…
Varieties in the Presentation
Links to several varieties mentioned during the talk.- Cucamelons
- Armenian cucumber (Metki type, botanically a melon): Striped Armenian
- Cucumber varieties: Itachi, Quirk, Suyo Long, Sashimi, Lemon
- Salad and cooking greens: Tokyo Bekana, Mizuna, Mache, Purslane, Red Giant, Carlton, Magenta Spreen, Vegetable Amaranth, Koji, Ruby Red Orach
- Salanova Lettuce
- Ground cherry: Goldie
- Tomatillo varieties: Pancho, Toma Verde, De Milpa
- Tomato varieties: Galahad, Green Bee, Captain Lucky, Japanese Black Trifle, Mochi, Blush
- Watermelon-type radish: Red Meat
- Other radishes: Alpine, Green Luobo Improved, KN-Bravo
- Summer squash varieties: Zephyr, Eight Ball, One Ball, Lemon Sun, Pantheon
- Chard varieties: Peppermint, Heart of Gold
