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

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Timber Press, Dec 31, 2014 - Gardening - 216 pages

“If I could recommend one book for small-space vegetable gardening, this would be it. Andrea Bellamy nailed it!” —Joe Lamp’l, Growing a Greener World

Small-Space Vegetable Gardens explains the basics of growing a bounty of edibles in a minimal amount of space. Andrea Bellamy, author of the award-winning blog Heavy Petal, shares all the knowledge she’s gained from years of gardening small: how to find and assess a space, and how to plan and build a garden. Bellamy also highlights the top sixty edible plants and offers complete information on how to sow, grow, and harvest them. This hardworking and enthusiastic guide teaches gardeners how to take advantage of the space they 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 their dreams.

 

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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
Copyright

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About the author (2014)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleSmall-Space Vegetable Gardens: Growing Great Edibles in Containers, Raised Beds, and Small Plots
AuthorAndrea Bellamy
Editionillustrated
PublisherTimber Press, 2014
ISBN1604695471, 9781604695472
Length216 pages
Subjects › 

Gardening / Container
Gardening / Urban & Community
Gardening / Vegetables
  
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