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Container Gardening Complete

Creative Projects for Growing Vegetables and Flowers in Small Spaces
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Container Gardening Complete by Jessica Walliser is an essential guide for urban, indoor, and vegetable gardeners. It offers a thorough visual approach to growing vegetables, fruits, and flowers in containers, perfect for spaces like balconies, steps, and small gardens. The book provides foolproof, easy-to-follow methods with step-by-step instructions and photographs, making container gardening accessible and successful. Readers will learn about drainage, irrigation, plant combinations, and the best plants suited for container growing.
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This book is ideal for beginner to intermediate gardeners who want to start or improve their container gardening projects, especially those with limited outdoor space or who grow plants indoors or on balconies.

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Everything you need to know to garden successfully in a small space, including easy-to-follow, step-by-step directions, photographs, and information on more than 125 plants.

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The ideal book for urban gardeners, indoor gardeners, and vegetable gardeners, Container Gardening Complete is 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, Container Gardening Complete has everything you need to know to be successful.

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 upcycled containers from things you have around your home.

You'll 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 non-edibles for container gardening.

This is the best, most complete book on the market for container gardening.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781591866824

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 19 December 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Cool Springs Press

Illustration: 400 color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Jessica Walliser co-hosts The Organic Gardeners, an award-winning program on KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a former contributing editor for Organic Gardening magazine and a regular contributor to Fine Gardening, Urban Farm, and Hobby Farms magazines. Walliser also serves on the editorial advisory board of The American Horticultural Society. Her two weekly gardening columns for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review have been enjoyed by readers for over nine years. Jessica's fourth book, Attracting Beneficial Bugs to the Garden: A Natural Approach to Pest Control, was awarded the American Horticultural Society's 2014 Book Award. It was also named one of the Top 12 Gardening Books by Martha Stewart Living magazine in March of 2015. She is also the author of the Amazon best-seller Good Bug, Bad Bug: Who's Who, What They Do, and How to Manage Them Organically and blogs weekly for both SavvyGardening.com and HobbyFarms.com.

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