About Us

We are Eric Walker and Lynn Walker. We have several diverse interests, which are reflected in the several quite different web sites we try to maintain (it's forever a juggling act, with most of those sites behindhand at any given moment). You can see the whole menu at our main site, Owlcroft (which also includes links to personal sites for each of us).

Of the lot, one is especially closely related to this one, in that if we grow vegetables, it follows that we have to cook some of them, and there is no better method of cooking than an induction cooktop--so we run The Induction Site, which is all about what induction is, why it is so superior to everything else, and who makes the equipment.

That's us!

If it amuses you, try to guess which is the one of us who--

• was nauseated by a forcibly administered onion-juice/whiskey "cough syrup" as a child?
• hates the strings on celery?
• wants to grow pears?
• is 5'1" crown to toe? (So you'll have one question you can't miss.)

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	Web growingtaste.com

• Background Information about the purposes and design of this site
  • Site Front Page
  • an Apologia: why one should cultivate one's garden   » First-time visitors: please, start here! «
  • Introduction
    • Our Climate--
      • Our Location (USDA Zone Map)
      • Daily Weather Table - Note! 300K file
      • Our Freeze Risks
      • Our Garden Design
    • Deep-Bed Gardening (forthcoming)
    • Vegetarian and Organic Considerations (forthcoming)
  
  
  
• Recommended Crops for a home garden, by variety
  • Vegetable Varieties
  • Herb and Spice Varieties
  • Fruit and Berry Varieties
  
  
  
• Gardening information and aids
  • Tools and Equipment
    • Garden Tools (forthcoming)
    • Seed-Starting (forthcoming)
    • Colored Plastic Mulches
  • A Garden Calendar
  • Suppliers for Recommended Varieties
  • Estimated Seed Life in Storage
  
  
  
• Miscellaneous Information of interest to the home gardener
  • Links:
    • Vegetable-Gardening Links
    • On-Line Vegetable Seed & Plant Sellers
  • About Oxalic Acid in Vegetables
  • About Induction Cooking [now at a site of its own: The Induction Site]
  • So Who Are We?
  
  
  
• Books on "Vegetables" and vegetable gardening, both new and used
  In reality, we have six bookshops, one for each of the six national divisions of Amazon books; the links farther below are to the U.S.-based shop, but you can visit any of the six:
  

  ·  U.S. ·  Canada ·  U.K. ·  Germany  (only books in English listed) ·  France  (only books in English listed) ·  Japan  (only books in English listed)

  
  In our U.S.A. Bookshop:
  • About Our Bookshop - including many specific book recommendations
  • "Vegetables" Books Available New Today:
    • "Vegetables" Books By Title:
      (vegetables book titles beginning with the word "vegetables" are broken out separately in the alphabetical title lists below)
      A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | non-letters
    • The "Vegetables"-Books "Master List" (a very large file!)
  • Search For Any New Book at Amazon
  • Search For Any Used Book at Abebooks

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Since you're growing your own vegetables and fruits, shouldn't you be cooking them in the best way possible? Visit The Induction Site to find out what that best way is!

This site is one of The Owlcroft Company family of web sites. Please click on the link (or the owl) to see a menu of our other diverse user-friendly, helpful sites.

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