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

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Timber Press, Feb 4, 2016 - Gardening - 216 pages

“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, and podcaster

Small-Space Vegetable Gardens explains the basics of growing a bounty of edibles in a minimal amount of space. Andrea Bellamy shares all the knowledge she’s gained from years of gardening small. You’ll learn how to find and assess a space, how to plan and build a garden, and how to sow, grow, and harvest the 60 best edible plants. This hardworking and enthusiastic guide will help you take advantage of the space you have—whether it’s a balcony, a patio, a plot in a community garden, or even a small yard—to create the food garden of your dreams.
 

 

Contents

Preface
7
Finding Space
9
Assessing Your Space
17
Design in a Small Area
29
Planning for Planting
39
Building Your Garden
55
Optimizing Your Soil
69
Sowing and Growing
83
Harvesting and Preparing for Next Year
137
Edibles from A to Z
147
Acknowledgements
202
Bibliography
203
Metric Conversions
204
Photography Credits
205
Index
206
About the Author
214

Keeping Plants Healthy
95
Making the Most of Limited Space
127

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About the author (2016)

Andrea Bellamy is the creator of Heavy Petal, a blog devoted to urban organic gardening. She has a certificate in garden design from the University of British Columbia and studied permaculture methods for food production at an urban microfarm. She has been gardening since childhood and has grown food on rooftops, balconies, boulevards, and patios, and in community garden beds, window boxes, traffic circles, frontyards, and backyards. She is the Grow Food columnist for Edible Vancouver magazine, and her writing has appeared in a number of online and print publications. She lives in Vancouver, Canada, with her husband and daughter.

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