Organic Gardening for Everyone

Author: CaliKim
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
ISBN: 0760365342
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 163

Book Description
If you want to grow healthy vegetables at home, but have hesitated because it seems too hard and time consuming, Organic Gardening for Everyone is your perfect hands-on guide—an “if I can do it, you can do it” case study that addresses your concerns and gets you started. Loaded with practical advice and step-by-step guidance, Organic Gardening for Everyone takes a very personal and friendly approach to a subject that can be intimidating. It is a first-class primer on organic vegetable gardening, and an inspirational story about how anyone can balance the rigors of gardening with the demands of a modern, family-oriented lifestyle. In 2012, a California mom decided to start an organic vegetable garden. But she went about it in an unusual way: she crowdsourced it by launching a YouTube channel under the name "CaliKim" and asking for help. And then she started planting. As questions came up, she turned to her viewers and subscribers and they replied with answers and advice. As she learned, her garden grew successfully—even in the hot, harsh California climate. Her expertise also grew, and now she answers many more questions than she asks and has become a very accomplished home gardener. And CaliKim has a great story to tell: growing healthy organic vegetables for your family is not difficult, even for today’s time-challenged lifestyles. She provides complete step-by-step information on growing the most popular edibles organically, and also gives sound advice on how to take on the challenges of balancing a hectic lifestyle with successful growing—and how to involve the whole family in the process. You'll be rewarded for your effort every time you place a plate of natural, organic vegetables on the family dinner table knowing exactly what they are, what is in them, and where they came from.

The Vegetable Gardener's Container Bible

Author: Edward C. Smith
Publisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: 1603429751
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
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. You’ll discover that container gardening is an easy and fun way to enjoy summer’s bounty in even the smallest of growing spaces.

Container Gardening Made Easy

Author: Sydney Engberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62

Book Description
People who don't have space or time for traditional gardening need expert advice on choosing and using plants and containers to create their container garden, large or small. At long last, an innovative and sensible gardening guide from the most trusted name in gardening. This book is a thorough visual guide that will get you proliferating! Whether growing vegetables, fruits, or flowers on an apartment balcony, creating a small vegetable garden for personal use, or decorating steps and walkways, this hardworking book is your go-to resource.

Easy Container Gardens

Author: Pamela Crawford
Publisher: Color Garden Incorporated
ISBN: 9780971222069
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
Crawford creates a complete guide to simple container-gardening designed for anyone who has ever killed a plant. She includes illustrated instructions to create gorgeous, fool-proof container-gardens filled with blue-ribbon plant combos that require no trimming, no fertilizing, and no spraying for up to seven months.

Grow More Food

Author: Colin McCrate
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1635864100
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 705

Book Description
Just how productive can one small vegetable garden be? More productive than one might think! Colin McCrate and Brad Halm, former CSA growers and current owners of the Seattle Urban Farm Company, help readers boost their garden productivity by teaching them how to plan carefully, maximize production in every bed, get the most out of every plant, scale up systems to maximize efficiency, and expand the harvest season with succession planting, intercropping, and season extension. Along with chapters devoted to the Five Tenets of a Productive Gardener (Plan Well to Get the Most from Your Garden; Maximize Production in Each Bed; Get the Most out of Every Plant; Scale up Tools and Systems for Efficiency; and Expand and Extend the Harvest), the book contains interactive tools that home gardeners can use to assist them in determining how, when, and what to plant; evaluating crop health; and planning and storing the harvest. For today’s vegetable gardeners who want to grow as much of their own food as possible, this guide offers expert advice and strategies for cultivating a garden that supplies what they need. This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA.

Raised-Bed Vegetable Gardening Made Simple

Author: Raymond Nones
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1581571887
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Provides comprehensive advice on raised-bed vegetable gardening, including how to pick a location, when to bring transplants indoors, and how to save and store seeds.

Vegetable Container Gardening - Made Easy

Author: James Paris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781475278170
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 30

Book Description
Container gardening is not rocket science, but vegetable container gardening can produce mostly the same range of vegetables that a full garden can; with only a fraction of the work !In this book you will find easy steps to producing top quality vegetables, in containers of all shapes and sizes.This easy guide covers:* Simple and Cheap container types to use* Preparing the compost for container planting* Secrets for success when growing in containers* The perfect soil conditions* Prevent the dangers of over watering* Recycling to create plantersThe author shares a lot of the thinking behind his love of gardening, including some of his history and what led to this document on growing in containers. This work aims to compliment the range of Container gardening books on kindle, by suggesting simple, practical tips and ideas for gardening in a limited space.If you are looking for ideas for planting vegetables in containers, then scroll up the page and click on the Buy Now link

Container Garden Idea Book

Author: Editors & Contributors of Fine Gardening
Publisher: Taunton Press
ISBN: 1600853951
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 227

Book Description
Looks at container gardens, focusing on choosing the right containers, designing container plantings, specialty container plantings, and placing pots in the landscape.

McGee & Stuckey's Bountiful Container

Author: Maggie Stuckey
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 0761116230
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 449

Book Description
With few exceptions-such as corn and pumpkins-everything edible that's grown in a traditional garden can be raised in a container. And with only one exception-watering-container gardening is a whole lot easier. Beginning with the down-to-earth basics of soil, sun and water, fertilizer, seeds and propagation, The Bountiful Container is an extraordinarily complete, plant-by-plant guide. 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.

Small-Space Container Gardens

Author: Fern Richardson
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604692413
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
Small? Yes. A concrete slab populated with plastic chairs and an abandoned grill? Not anymore. Small-Space Container Gardens layers practical gardening fundamentals with creative solutions, encouraging us to think “outside the pot.” You'll learn how to tackle unique challenges, like windy conditions several stories above street level, and how to care for plants and troubleshoot problems like garden pests and diseases. From design basics to essential plant picks, Small-Space Container Gardens proves you don't need a yard to have a happy, healthy garden. For anyone who wants more green in their life, it's time to start gardening creatively in small spaces.