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Field Guide to Urban Gardening

How to Grow Plants, No Matter Where You Live: Raised Beds β€’ Vertical Gardening β€’ Indoor Edibles β€’ Balconies and Rooftops β€’ Hydroponics
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Field Guide to Urban Gardening by Kevin Espiritu offers practical advice for growing food in limited spaces. The book covers various gardening techniques suitable for urban environments, including raised beds, container gardening, and vertical gardening. It provides insights on soil, plant selection, and pest management, making it an excellent resource for city dwellers looking to cultivate their green thumbs.
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You might enjoy this book if you are passionate about cultivating your green thumb in tight spaces or are eager to explore creative gardening solutions for urban settings. With practical advice and innovative techniques, it's perfect for anyone wanting to transform small patios, balconies, or even windowsills into lush, productive gardens. Whether you're a novice or an experienced gardener, this gardening guide offers insightful tips to make the most of your limited space.

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Field Guide to Urban Gardening helps you choose the best methods to match your unique small-space challenges and growing goals, and provides the nuts-and-bolts information you need to participate in any method you choose.

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Conquer your small-space gardening challenges! Field Guide to Urban Gardening helps you choose and get started with your best solution as it presents an overview of the variety of ingenious strategies for growing plants in small spaces.

Urban gardening is a broad but up-trending category that offers many solutions for space-challenged gardeners. As it has become a more popular (and necessary) way to garden, the options have increased. Today, they include such methods as raised bed gardening, vertical gardening, rooftop gardening, hydroponics, 'hellstrip' gardening, and indoor kitchen gardening.

Rather than tackle one or two of these categories, Field Guide to Urban Gardening gives a complete overview of small-space gardening in general, outlining the many clever strategies for growing plants in small spaces and applying a compare-and-contrast calculus to the most popular methods to help you choose which way or ways are right for you. In the process, it provides enough practical, how-to guidance that you can successfully embark on any of the many methods you choose: singly or in combination.

Filled with high-quality photos and straightforward tutorials, Field Guide to Urban Gardening is the entry point to vegetable gardening for anyone who thought they were excluded by living in an urban area with no yard or in any residence with limited gardening space.

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The book offers practical and universal gardening tips that are beneficial even for those with expansive gardens. It is particularly suited for people interested in gardening in small, unique, or urban areas, providing inspiration and guidance.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780760363966

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 May 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Cool Springs Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Kevin Espiritu is an urban gardener, plant lover, and the founder of Epic Gardening, a website dedicated to a goal of teaching 10,000,000 people around the world how to grow their own plants. He focuses on practical growing methods and demystifying all of the complex terminology and processes into simple, easy-to-follow guides. Kevin is also the author ofΒ Field Guide to Urban Gardening and Grow Bag Gardening.

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