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The Edible Front Yard: The Mow-Less, Grow-More Plan For A Beautiful, Bountiful Garden (2011)

by Ivette Soler(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1604691999 (ISBN13: 9781604691993)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Timber Press

review 1: I'm in the planning stages of turning my front lawn into a mixed edible/ornamental garden - so this book was written for me. That said I did not find it a very useful resource The first two sections list (alphabetically) edibles you might want to include in your yard. While there is certainly something for every zone or aesthetic the manner in which the plants are presented is neither easy-to-reference or complete (another review mentioned the lack of hardiness zones, which would have been an important addition to the info listed at the top of each description). And since this book is about gardening, and making an attractive edible garden at that I was really disappointed by the amateur photos.The rest of the book is broken down into how to make your garden happen, but it... more is not organised in an easy-to-follow manner and feels like it jumps from B to C and then back to A. And again, the photos are just not helpful additions - often useless details or bad angles of full gardens.Overall, while I did pull a few tidbits from this book I will not be returning to it as a reference and would not recommend it to someone looking to create an edible front garden.
review 2: Though I HAVE read more than my fair share of urban food forest type books, I really liked this one. Perhaps because most of the other books take a landscape design approach or a permaculture approach and this one is really, mostly, a flip book of lots of really neat plants.All that you can put in your front yard.I like that, unlike other books, this one has a pretty extensive selection and isn't just limited to what the author liked/had experience with.I like that many MANY different types of zones are considered and that it isn't JUST about what looks pretty enough to be up front. But that isn't ignored.There are a few extra short chapters in the back that get into more than just the specific plants (which was kind of fun).Overall, a really quick read, but easy to go back to specific dog eared pages about specific plants and to really get excited about other plants that can be grown too. Front or back yard. less

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