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Home & Garden: Gift Books for Gardeners and Cooks

Home & Garden: Gift Books for Gardeners and Cooks
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 9:34 AM
Sure, it’s late for shopping and this is a scaled-back holiday for most of us, but there’s still time to give your favorite bookstore a call and ask for curbside pickup of a book to lift the spirits of your favorite gardener and cook. Here are a few recommendations that appealed to me for different reasons.
First on the list, “The Scentual Garden: Exploring the World of Botanical Fragrance,” by Ken Druse. This is a 2020 pick of the American Horticultural Society, whose judges called the book “elegant and edifying.” Druse, a personal favorite garden writer and photographer, found himself dissatisfied when words like “fragrant” or “sweet” were used to describe plants in catalogs, so he set out to remedy this. He covers such topics as how scent makes us feel, how to sample scents, how plants communicate with each other through smell, how botanical fragrance is captured for perfume and how to design for sensory gardens, for aromatherapy and for spaces in your garden. It’ll make you long to inhale the scent of a sprig of lily of the valley or heirloom rose but, fortunately, Druse did not succumb to the temptation of any scratch-n-sniff patches.

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5 Short-Season Tomatoes

5 Short-Season Tomatoes
Gardeners burdened with less than 90 frost-free days, take note: These productive cultivars offer up the fruit and flavor you crave.
Story and photos by Nan Fischer

Photo by Nan Fischer
As the founder of the Taos Seed Exchange in New Mexico, I receive a lot of interesting seed donations for our annual seed swap. One year, tomato seeds came in from High Ground Gardens in Crestone, Colorado, a few hours’ drive north of my organic nursery in the Rocky Mountains.
Owner Bryon Pike breeds short-season and cold tolerant tomatoes outdoors at elevations between 7,000 and 8,500 feet. I was excited to receive his donation, because I too live and garden in a short-season part of the Rockies. From Pike’s seeds, I grew and sold a handful of ‘Super Tomato’ starts with the understanding that the buyers would return fresh seed for the seed exchange. One plant went to a woman who had just moved to the Rockies from Florida. That year, we had an unusually late frost on June 23 that killed all of her tomatoes except the ‘Super Tomato.’ It was untouched — not even tip burn. Super, indeed!

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