This week on America’s Home Grown Veggie Show I am interviewing author Jean Ann Van Krevelen about her new book Grocery Gardening. The book goes through most of the common fruit, vegetable and herbs that you would pick up at the supermarket and tells you how to grow, cook and preserve them. This may seem like 3 books in one, and in some ways it is.

For instance, each item such as chives, has four entry points divided into tabs: There is planting/growing; varieties;produce selection (for those who cannot grow these things)/harvest; and preserving. There is not a tab for recipes but there are lots of recipes in the book too. One extra for today’s modern household is the nutritional information.

I think this is the first book that takes the shopper’s point of view when talking about growing. Too often gardeners get carried away with growing new things and are confident about how to grow them. The standard garden book though does not tell you when to actually harvest the melon or tomato or green bean. This book does that and does it in a very clear way.

This Saturday – March 13th Jean Ann will be giving away a signed copy of her book, so please listen in to America’s Home Grown Veggie Show at 10am, on www.radiosandysprings.com. Join us on Facebook at americashomegrownveggies to hear about other books, tools and seeds that we give away to lucky listeners every week.