Small-Space Vegetable Gardens: Growing Great Edibles in Containers, Raised Beds, and Small Plots - Softcover

Bellamy, Andrea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604695471 ISBN 13: 9781604695472

Publisher: Timber Press, 2014

Synopsis

If you want to grow your own vegetables but have only a small garden or no garden at all, this is the book for you. Andrea Bellamy provides ingenious ideas on how to get the most produce from a small space whether you have a city garden, a balcony or just a window box. Nearly 200 photographs explain each step towards a homegrown harvest that any gardener would relish!

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Review:

"Size matters! Andrea Bellamy shares creative ways to grow a wide array of vegetables, fruits, and herbs in diminutive settings, year-round." --Debra Prinzing, author, speaker, podcaster, and contributing editor to Country Gardens

"A must-have handbook for edible gardeners! Bellamy shows us that small can be beautiful and productive." --Willi Galloway, award-winning writer, radio commentator, and author of Grow, Eat, Cook: A Food Lover's Guide to Vegetable Gardening

"With Andrea's expert guidance, see how easy it is to tend vegetables, fruit, and herbs right outside your back door." --Dee Nash, author of The 20-30 Something Garden Guide

"Bellamy provides an A-Z (apples to zucchini) guide to edibles and many ancillary sources of information, all accompanied by delightful illustrations and scrumptious color photographs to create a one-stop guide to vegetable gardens sure to encourage and please many aspiring and veteran gardeners." --Booklist

"A comprehensive guide to starting out when space in your garden is limited." --Gardens Illustrated

"This hardworking and enthusiastic guide teaches gardeners how to take advantage of the space they have to create the food garden of their dreams." --Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland

"This guide to urban vegetable growing provides insight into how to make the most of any space, no matter how small. Answering all the questions you've ever had about urban vegetable growing. . . . Small-Space VegetableGardens is a great beginners guide for anyone who doesn't think urban living means you have to miss out on home-grown produce." --Landlove

From the Back Cover:

Maximize fresh harvests in minimal space.

Grow your own delicious food in any space--no matter how small. Andrea Bellamy, of the award-winning blog Heavy Petal, shares a wealth of knowledge from years of gardening small. Learn how to plan and build your garden--on balconies, in raised beds, up walls, across parking strips, and more--as well as how to sow, grow, and harvest an abundance of fresh fruits and vegetables all season long. With a comprehensive A to Z of edibles, including the best small-space varieties, and scores of photos that show creative and surprising solutions to limited growing space, this guide is filled with the hardworking information every small-space gardener craves.

About this edition

• Publisher: Timber Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1604695471
• ISBN 13: 9781604695472
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216