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Melons for the Passionate Grower
Amy Goldman
Artisan
June 2002
On Sale: May 25, 2002
176 pages
ISBN: 1579652131
EAN: 9781579652135
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
This year's heirloom tomato is a melon! Acclaimed gardener Amy Goldman, known to viewers of Martha
Stewart and PBS, is a dedicated seed saver working to
preserve fast-disappearing varieties of heirloom melons. Her
book, Melons for the Passionate Grower, is a celebration of
the speckled, bumpy, oh-so-sweet world of the melon—from
Minnesota Midget and Georgia Rattlesnake to Ali Baba and
Sweet Siberian. Here she profiles more than one hundred varieties, each
showcased in a full-color photographic still life recalling
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century botanical paintings and
engravings. Goldman also offers expert advice on cultivating
and selecting your own melons, as well as the rudiments of
seed saving. From the Back Cover
In the same way that passionate gardeners rescued heirloom
tomatoes and roses from oblivion and brought back old
varieties full of character, flavor, and fragrance, so Amy
Goldman has made it her life's work to bring back the
amazing heirloom melon. Melons long and swiggly, mottled or
striped; melons in every conceivable hue; melons that taste
like cucumbers or pineapples, melons sweeter than any you've
ever tasted. And you can grow them too. Here are a hundred melons, each photographed exquisitely by
Victor Schrager, and each with a story. Also included are
directions on how to grow, propagate, and harvest them,
sources for seeds, and how to become, like Amy Goldman, a
seed saver and do something important toward preserving our
agricultural heritage.
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