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1. Container Gardening Complete: Creative Projects for Growing Vegetables and Flowers in Small Spaces
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The ideal book for urban gardeners, indoor gardeners, and vegetable gardeners,Container Gardening Completeis a thorough visual guide that will get you growing quickly! Whether you are growing vegetables, fruits, or flowers on an apartment balcony;creating a small vegetable garden for personal use; or decorating steps and walkways, this hard working book is your go-to resource.
The methods described in this book are foolproof and easy to follow, with step-by-step directions and photographs, scalable projects for differing needs, and many great ideas for upscaled containers from things you have around your home. Youll get to know the ins and outs of gardening in a small space, from the importance of drainage, irrigation, and other watering concerns to ornamental combinations of plants, and the very best vegetables, fruits, and nonedibles for container gardening.
2. Potted: Make Your Own Stylish Garden Containers
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Outdoor style often comes at a high price, but it doesnt have to. This lushly designed guide empowers you to create your own show-stopping containers made from everyday materials such as concrete, plastic, metal, terracotta, rope, driftwood, and fabric. The 23step-by-step projects are affordable, made from accessible materials, and most importantly, gorgeous. They include new spins on old favorites, like the cinderblock garden made popular by design blogs or hanging planters made from enamelware bowls, along with never-before-seen ideas like a chimney flue planter and wall planters made from paint cans.Packed with color photographs and simple instruction, Potted is for anyone who wants to turn an outdoor space into a stylish oasis.
3. The Vegetable Gardener's Container Bible: How to Grow a Bounty of Food in Pots, Tubs, and Other Containers
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The Vegetable Gardener s Container Bible How to Grow a Bounty of Food in Pots Tubs and Other ContainersDescription
Harvest tomatoes on a patio, produce a pumpkin in a planter, and grow broccoli on a balcony! Best-selling author Ed Smith shows you everything you need to know to successfully create and care for an edible container garden, from choosing the right plants and selecting appropriate containers through controlling pests without chemicals and harvesting fresh vegetables. Youll discover that container gardening is an easy and fun way to enjoy summers bounty in even the smallest of growing spaces.
4. McGee & Stuckey's Bountiful Container: Create Container Gardens of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Edible Flowers
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McGee Stuckey s Bountiful Container Create Container Gardens of Vegetables Herbs Fruits and Edible FlowersDescription
Written by two seasoned container gardeners and writers, The Bountiful Container covers Vegetables-not just tomatoes (17 varieties) and peppers (19 varieties), butharicots verts, fava beans, Thumbelina carrots, Chioggia beets, and sugarsnap peas. Herbs, from basil to thyme, and including bay leaves, fennel, and saffron crocus. Edible Flowers, such as begonias, calendula, pansies, violets, and roses. And perhaps most surprising, Fruits, including apples, peaches, Meyer lemons, blueberries, currants, and figs-yes, even in the colder parts of the country. (Another benefit of container gardening: You can bring the less hardy perennials in over the winter.) There are theme gardens (an Italian cook's garden, a Four Seasons garden), lists of sources, and dozens of sidebars on everything from how to be a human honeybee to seeds that are All America Selections.
5. Succulent Container Gardens: Design Eye-Catching Displays with 350 Easy-Care Plants
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With their colorful leaves, sculptural shapes, and simple care, succulents are beautiful yet forgiving plants for pots. If grown in containers, these dry-climate jewelswhich include but are not limited to cactican be brought indoors in winter and so can thrive anywhere in the world.In this inspiring compendium, the popular author of Designing with Succulents provides everything beginners and experienced gardeners need to know to create stunning container displays of exceptionally waterwise plants. The extensive palette includes delicate sedums, frilly echeverias, cascading senecios, edgy agaves, and fat-trunked beaucarneas, to name just a few. Easy-to-follow, expert tips explain soil mixes, overwintering, propagation, and more.
Define your individual style as you effectively combine patterns, colors, textures, and forms. Discover how top designers interpret the dramatic options, in ideas ranging from exquisite plant-and-pot combinations to extraordinary topiaries and bonsai. Expand your repertoire with plump-leaved plants that resemble pebbles, stars, and undersea creatures. Short on space? Create vertical gardens and hanging baskets, and use daisylike rosettes in wall displays.
Each of the more than 300 photographs offers an inspiring idea. A-to-Z descriptions cover 350 of the best succulents, plus companion plants. Whether your goal is a gorgeous potted garden for a sunny windowsill or outdoor living areaor simply making great giftsthis is a comprehensive primer for creating vibrant, living works of art.
6. All New Square Foot Gardening II: The Revolutionary Way to Grow More in Less Space
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Square Foot Gardening is the most practical, foolproof way to grow a home garden,whether you're growing an urban garden, or have an entirebackyard.
That explains why author and gardening innovator Mel Bartholomew has sold more than two million books teaching how to become a successful DIY square foot gardener. Mel developed his techniques back in the early 1980s and has been teaching them around the world ever since. In the process, he has made improvements and refinements, and has continually adapted his practices to keep pace with modern times.
In this new volume, Bartholomew furthers his discussion on one of the most popular gardening trends today: vertical gardening. He also explains how you can make gardening fun for kids by teaching them the square foot method. Rich with new, full-color images and updated tips for selecting materials, this highly produced, new edition will bring you up to speed withMel's industry-changing insights.
7. Container Gardening: A Reliable Beginners Guide to Growing Herbs (Urban Gardening Simplified) (Volume 2)
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Container Gardening A Reliable Beginner s Guide to Growing Herbs Urban Gardening SimplifiedDescription
Get the bounty of a beautiful herbs garden -- without a large space Grow your own herbs in a container garden, and have fun doing it! With this book, you will get all the tips you need to start a container garden in spaces of nearly any size -- and learn how to maintain the garden with very little work. This Container Gardening guide starts with the background information you need to know about gardening, as well providing advice for the best herbs to grow at home. As you continue along in the process, you will have lots of fun seeing the fruits of your labor. Beginning from helping you determine which containers are safe to use, to choosing the most suitable herbs to grow, to feeding your plants for maximum growth, this book will walk you through it all, step by step. Take the hesitation and fear out of gardening; no matter where you live. Heres what you get inside the book: Choosing the Right Container for Your Herbs Soil Considerations Type of Herbs for Growing in Containers Best Herbs to Grow for the Beginners Harvesting & Drying Herbs Watering and fertilizing Grooming Your Plants Common Diseases and Pests Overwintering Considerations Container Gardening: A Reliable Beginners Guide to Growing Herbs is your solution for growing in small spaces.8. Container Gardening: 250 Design Ideas & Step-by-Step Techniques
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For people who don't have space or time for traditional gardening and who need expert advice on choosing and using plants and containers to create their own container garden, large or small. At long last, a smart and sensible gardening guide from the most trusted name in gardening. Compiled from the pages of Fine Gardening magazine, Container Gardening will inspire readers with dramatic plant combinations as well as provide step-by-step techniques to plant and care for containers under all conditions, including regions with short growing periods. The experts at Fine Gardening will show even a beginning gardener how containers can create boundaries, direct traffic, break up wall space, and soften edges throughout the year.
9. Container Gardening For Dummies
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Container Gardening For DummiesDescription
Learn to:
- Choose, plant, and care for flowers, fruits, trees, and shrubs
- Grow vegetables and herbs just steps away from your kitchen
- Cultivate charming gardens in any climate
- Prevent insects and diseases from invading containers the eco-friendly way
The easy way to get a green thumb in container gardening!
Want to spruce up your indoor or outdoor space with annuals, perennials, vegetables, and succulents? This updated edition of Container Gardening For Dummies gives you clear, concise step-by-step instructions for cultivating delightful gardens in everything from a redwood window box to a hanging basket to an old watering can. It also includes color photos to inspire your designs.
- Getting the dirt on container gardening discover the advantages of growing plants in containers and learn how to maximize your garden conditions to help plants thrive
- Picking a pot to plant in take a look around your living space and determine the best location and type of container for your garden
- Enjoying a summer fling get the lowdown on the best single-season flowers, vegetables, and bulbs for container growing
- Putting down roots find out which perennials, trees, shrubs, fruits, and berries give year-round impact
- Designing and decorating take advantage of ideas and inspiration for creating eye-catching container gardening displays
Open the book and find:
- Things you need to know before planting
- A quick primer on climate
- What to look for in a soil mix
- How to work with perennials and annuals
- Information you need to help you choose plants
- Why and when containers need water and fertilizer
- Guidance on replanting, repotting, and pruning
- Tips for preventing insect pests and diseases
- Ways to liven up your space with trees, shrubs, and vines
10. The Edible Balcony: Growing Fresh Produce in Small Spaces
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You don't need a sprawling backyard or spacious raised beds to grow delicious fruits, vegetables, and herbs of your own. In The Edible Balcony, longtime urban gardener Alex Mitchell shows how to transform whatever space you have, from a balcony or rooftop to a fire escape or window box, into a profusion of fresh, seasonal produce.
While raising your own produce is eco-friendly in itself, you'll learn how to plant, grow, and water as sustainably as possible to ensure your edible Eden remains green and productive all year long. Plus, with a collection of innovative, step-by-step projects for designing colorful pots and plant supports with recycled containers and other household paraphernalia, you'll double your eco-friendliness, avoid hours of shopping, and be able to infuse your space with your own personal flair and style. Who knew saving time, money, and the environment could be so much fun?
A collection of practical advice, fabulous container projects, and stunning examples of how gardeners around the world are successfully transforming urban spaces into abundant fruit and vegetable plots, The Edible Balcony is your guide to creating attractive, responsible, and thoroughly rewarding small space gardensand perhaps never having to settle for grocery store produce again.
11. Simple Steps to Success: Fruit and Vegetables in Pots
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Using a combination of easily accessible information and inspiring photographs, the Simple Steps series promotes gardening as a real pleasure rather than a back-breaking chore.In Fruit and Vegetables in Pots, learn simple steps to growing and nurturing your own fruits and vegetables in containers.
12. Container Gardening: Grow Organic Vegetables and Organic Herbs with Container Gardening
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Container Gardening Grow Organic Vegetables and Organic Herbs with Container GardeningDescription
The ULTIMATE CONTAINER GARDENING GUIDE! GROW THE BEST ORGANIC VEGETABLES AND ORGANIC HERBS! Perfect for Gardening Beginners or Seasoned Veterans! By #1 Best Selling Author, Joy Louis!
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- Learn How to Plan Properly for your Container Gardening!
- Step by Step in Choosing the Correct Containers for Your Garden
- Know These Must Have Container Gardening Essentials!
- Learn about Proper Watering for the Best Harvest..
- Outline for Pests and Fertilizers!
- What You May Not Know About the Seeds!
- How to Deal With Container Gardening Problems
- The Mistake You MUST Avoid!
- 10 Awesome Container Gardening Ideas!
- Much, much more!