Grow & Cook: An A-Z of What to Grow All Through the Year at Home

The content of this book originally appeared in The New Kitchen Garden, published in 2015.

’An endless selection of delicious produce you can plant, grow and then cook with.’ Raymond Blanc OBE

Now you can create your own delicious edible garden at home!

More and more people are being inspired to grow a little of what they eat at home. But while starting your own kitchen garden may seem like a daunting task at first, Grow & Cookmakes it easy.

Award-winning author and gardener, Mark Diacono, has distilled years of knowledge into this pocket-sized book. Whether you are new to gardening and only have a small window box or you are much more experienced with the space to experiment, this user-friendly handbook will inspire and help you. Mark is here to show you that there are plenty of options for everyone and lots of exciting new varieties to discover.

Each variety in the book includes a wealth of information on when to sow, growing tips, potential problems, harvesting and plenty more. There are hundreds of varieties to pick from that can be grown and then used in your kitchen.

Mark separates the growing guides into three groups:

* Vegetables
* Fruit & Nuts
* Herbs & Spices

Whatever you choose to grow should suit your lifestyle. You might prefer something tough and sturdy that doesn’t need too much love or time commitment, or you might get pleasure from the steady graft of looking after your veg patch. Whichever your circumstances, your kitchen garden should bring you joy both in the growing process and then in the kitchen.

Grow & Cook is the essential pocket guide for modern gardeners.

Mark Diacono is lucky enough to spend most of his time eating, growing, writing and talking about food.

He is an award-winning writer and photographer and has written and/or photographed thirteen books, including A Year at Otter Farm (Andre Simon Food Book of the Year 2014), A Taste of the Unexpected (Guild of Food Writers’ Food Book of the Year 2011), The New Kitchen (Garden Media Guild Book of the Year 2015), and his most recent book, Sour.

His refreshing approach to growing unusual and forgotten food along with the best of the familiar has done much to inspire a new generation of gardeners and cooks.

As well as his books, Mark has written for all the weekend papers, magazines as diverse as National Geographic, Country Life and Delicious.

Mark was involved with River Cottage in the early days, appearing in the TV series and writing three of the River Cottage Handbook series.

Twitter: @MarkDiacono
Instagram: @mark_diacono