Size Doesn't Matter: A Beginner's Guide to Maximizing Small Garden Spaces for BIG Harvests - Softcover

Summers, Erica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1962854558 ISBN 13: 9781962854559

Publisher: Rusty Ogre Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

Do you want bountiful harvests but don’t know where to start? Do you worry you don’t have enough space to garden?

This guide will teach you how to select the best garden type for your space and select harmonious companion plants that thrive together! Learn about composting, seed starting, soil amendments, grow zones, crop rotation, deterring pests, attracting pollinators, and much more!

This photo-filled black-and-white guide includes comprehensive, easy, step-by-step instructions on setting up your containers, patio orchard, raised-bed, or in-ground garden. It offers a wealth of advice from an experienced small-space gardener that could save you hundreds through trial and error.

SIZE DOESN'T MATTER!

Sustainable, fresh food is attainable. This book makes it simple for inexperienced gardeners to grow juicy fruit and crisp vegetables at home! You can have huge garden hauls and grow organic goodies regardless of how little space you have!

Size Doesn't Matter covers topics such as:

• Compact gardening
• Setting up your first raised bed
• Companion planting to maximize growth in a small garden space
• Growing in containers
• The beauty of hanging planters
• Attracting beneficial pollinator insects
• Making creative planters
• Edible goodies to grow based on your watering style
• Harvesting seeds
• Problematic pests and how to deter them
• Grow zones & last frost
• Fencing
• Crops that enjoy over-watering or under-watering
• Setting up your first composter
• Tips and tricks for bountiful garden hauls
• Soil amendments
• Vermicomposting
• and much more!

Whether you only have an apartment patio in the partial shade or a full yard right in the sun, Size Doesn't Matter will show you step-by-step how to start small and companion plant delicious fruits and vegetables perfect for your individual grow zone. Save yourself thousands of dollars in wasted seeds, years of poor yields, and even pest and viral damage to your beloved crops with easy instructions from a seasoned gardener who personally gives well over 100+ pounds of food away to friends and neighbors every summer from a garden the size of a driveway.

Full of photo illustrations and clear instructions, with Size Doesn't Matter, now you can build an organic supermarket right in your very own back yard.

Published by Rusty Ogre Publishing.

About this title

About the Author

Erica Summers is an award-winning author and filmmaker, an artist, a film industry grip, and a cancer survivor. Born in Wyoming, she spent most of her adult life in central Florida and southern Louisiana. She now lives by the beach in southern Connecticut. When she isn't writing or reading, she is tending her vegetable garden, solving escape room puzzles, singing karaoke, or kayak fishing.She has published a wide variety of award-winning horror and fantasy genre fiction and children's books. She also writes contemporary romance under the pen name Odessa Alba and hilarious cozy mysteries under the pen name Trixie Fairdale.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rusty Ogre Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1962854558
• ISBN 13: 9781962854559
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282
• Editor: Publishing Rusty Ogre