Small-Space Vegetable Gardens
Growing Great Edibles in Containers, Raised Beds, and Small Plots
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Even tiny gardens can yield a bounty of organic vegetables, fruits, herbs and, more—with this complete guide to gardening small.
Growing your own organic food is fun, healthy, cost-effective, and easier than it looks—no matter how little room you have for gardening. In Small-Space Vegetable Gardens, author and urban gardener Andrea Bellamy explains the basics of growing your own edibles in a minimal amount of space.
Creator of the urban gardening blog Heavy Petal, Andrea shares the knowledge she's gained from years of gardening small. You'll learn how to find and assess a space, how to plan and build a garden, and how to sow, grow, and harvest the 60 best edible plants.
This enthusiastic guide will help you take advantage of the space you have—whether it's a balcony, a patio, a plot in a community garden, or even a small yard—to create the food garden of your dreams.
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This handy volume dispels the notion that raised-bed gardens and container gardening are for amateurs. To the contrary, Bellamy (Sugar Snaps and Strawberries) makes the case that small-scale gardening offers the opportunity to experience the fullness of horticultural possibility in defined and proportionate spaces. Through charts, illustrations, and to-do lists, she demonstrates that container gardens are just the right size to be manageable and to explore the entire cycle of gardening, from seed to harvest. Beginning with the rudimentary aspects of the nature of soil, the usefulness of mulch, and the making of compost, she explains the unique conditions for starting seeds and, later, for plant maintenance, including guidelines about watering. From there, post-harvest, the section on saving and storing seeds and propagating can encourage the gardener to keep the garden going perpetually. Finally, at season's end, when all is harvested and seeds stored, the section on winter protection and cleaning tools brings the process full circle. Bellamy has written an inspiring and practical guide to sprouting life in the nooks and corners of unused land.
