This book introduces the methods, ingredients and delights of urban home gardening for beginners as well as avid gardeners who are interested in growing healthy, organic and tasty food for everyday living. Appealing to everyone from those with garden, balcony and rooftop spaces to those who grow vegetables in containers, this expanded edition builds on the success of the first edition and includes over 270 full colour photographs and updated material that shows the reader how to nurture and harvest food plants such as avocados, chayote, dill, dragon fruit and pak choi. Arthur van Langenberg also offers hands-on recipes for transforming home-grown natural ingredients into tasty dishes and sauces such as Macanese sweet potato pudding, fig syrup and green tomato chutney.


About the Author:

Arthur van Langenberg was born and brought up in a Hong Kong that was still very green and agriculture was flourishing. His love of nature, fueled by reading widely, led to humble efforts at growing plants with a few pots and wooden packing crates on a verandah. Now, he spends most of his spare time tending his precious plants in a small plot and coaxing life out of any crack in the wall capable of supporting a handful of soil. Kitchen gardening is his special interest. This book is a distillation of his 40 years’ experience of growing food plants in a typical urban setting.