Urban Gardening For Dummies

The easy way to succeed at urban gardening A townhouse yard, a balcony, a fire escape, a south-facing window—even a basement apartment can all be suitable locations to grow enough food to save a considerable amount of money and enjoy the freshest, healthiest produce possible. Urban Gardening For Dummies helps you make the most of limited space through the use of proven small-space gardening techniques that allow gardeners to maximize yield while minimizing space. Covers square-foot gardening and vertical and layered gardening Includes guidance on working with container gardening, succession gardening, and companion gardening Offers guidance on pest management, irrigation and rain barrels, and small-space composting If you're interested in starting an urban garden that makes maximum use of minimal space, Urban Gardening For Dummies has you covered.

In Field Guide to Urban Gardening, author Kevin Espiritu of Epic Gardening shares the basics of growing plants, offers tips on how to choose the right urban gardening method, and troubleshoots the most common problems you’ll encounter. If you think it’s impossible to grow your own food because you don’t have a large yard or you live in the city…think again. There is a plethora of urban gardening options to create beautiful, productive edible gardens no matter where you live. The key to succeeding as an urban gardener is to choose the method(s) that make sense for your unique living situation and then give your plants what they need to thrive. Kevin helps you do just that. But he doesn’t stop there. He also provides in-depth garden plans, from upcycled DIY projects and intensive hydroponic systems to beautiful and functional raised beds. Urban gardening is a real, growing, and important movement in today’s world. This fact-packed book is your roadmap to get growing today. Urban gardening techniques featured include: Container Gardening Raised Beds Indoor Edibles Balconies and Rooftops Hydroponics

"101 creative and inspiring ideas to grow edible and decorative plants in urban environments"--

'Charming, inspiring, uplifting ... pure lovely,' - Marian Keyes 'Read Rhapsody in Green. A novelist's beautiful, useful essays about her tiny garden.' - India Knight 'Glorious...for anyone who loves fruit, vegetables, herbs and language. It makes you see them with new eyes.' - Diana Henry 'A witty account of 'extreme allotmenteering' for all obsessive gardeners' - Mail on Sunday 'An extremely entertaining and inspiring story of one woman's passionate transformation of a small, irregular shaped urban garden into a bountiful source of food.' - Woman & Home 'A gardening book like no other, this is the author's 'love letter' to her garden. She relays warm and witty stories about the trials and tribulations throughout her gardening year.' - Garden News '...this inspirational, funny book, written by someone who hankers after a homesteader's lifestyle, will make you look at even your window box in a new, more productive light.' - The Simple Things Gardening can be viewed as a largely pointless hobby, but the evangelical zeal and camaraderie it generates is unique. Charlotte Mendelson is perhaps unusually passionate about it. For despite her superficially normal existence, despite the fact that she has only six square metres of grotty urban soil and a few pots, she has a secret life. She is an extreme gardener, an obsessive, an addict. And like all addicts, she wants to spread the joy. Her garden may look like a nasty drunk old man's mini-allotment, chaotic, virtually flowerless, with weird recycling and nowhere to sit. When honoured friends are shown it, they tend to laugh. However, it is actually a tiny jungle, a minuscule farm, a wildly uneconomical experiment in intensive edible cultivation, on which she grows a taste of perhaps a hundred kinds of delicious fruits and odd vegetables. It is a source of infinite happiness and deep peace. It looks completely bonkers. Arguably, it's the most expensive, time-consuming, undecorative and self-indulgent way to grow a salad ever invented, but when tired or sad or cross it never fails to delight.

Forget the 100-mile eat-local diet; try the 300-square-foot-diet — grow squash on the windowsill, flowers in the planter box, or corn in a parking strip. Apartment Gardening details how to start a garden in the heart of the city. From building a window box to planting seeds in jars on the counter, every space is plantable, and this book reveals that the DIY future is now by providing hands-on, accessible advice. Amy Pennington's friendly voice paired with Kate Bingham-Burt's crafty illustrations make greener living an accessible reality, even if readers have only a few hundred square feet and two windowsills. Save money by planting the same things available at the grocery store, and create an eccentric garden right in the heart of any living space.

You don't need a lot of space or time to make growing food at home a reality! Discover How Inspiring Woman Is Growing a Huge Amounts of Food Spending 4 Hours a Week in Her City Permaculture Garden! Are you thinking about building your own small garden to grow those delicious fruits, herbs, and veggies your whole family would enjoy? Would you like to make the most out of the space you have and design it in a way even your neighbors will be impressed? Or maybe you just want to fill up that void that you have because of years spent living in big cities with non of your own land? If you answered "Yes" to at least one of these questions, please read on... I've been gardening for the last 6 years, and I would lie to you I sad that my gardening journey was always smooth and pleasurable. Because I didn't really know what I was doing, and constant experiments led to quite a few failures: Wrong size beds... growing certain veggies on the ground instead of vertically... pest and watering issues and even wrong soil choice... These are just a few of many issues I ran into - but it was all worth it, so now I can enjoy what was always my dream: "Growing my own tomatoes, pumpkin, melon, surrounded by sunflower, roses, enjoy a warm tea in my small garden with my future family." This is a dream I had for myself years ago that became a reality. And now I want to help you to make your dreams come true as well! Take a look at what's inside: - 9 Steps to a Successful Urban Garden - these are going to be lessons I have learned over the years that allowed me to save time and money while enjoying all garden benefits - What types of gardens should you choose according to your situation and desires? - Should you grow vertically or horizontally, and when to do what? (an in-depth guide to making the most out of the space you have) - Most common mistakes you must avoid as a gardening beginner (you will save time, money, and nerves if you avoid them) - What plants to choose for a start? (some of them grow almost completely by themselves!) - Step-by-step guide - everything you need to know from planting a seed to harvesting and maintaining your garden (this is a blueprint that took me 6 years to put together, use it wisely!) - How to store food and enjoy fresh fruits and veggies all year long? - Much much more... And keep in mind that with this book, my goal is not to make you a professional gardener, even though this could be an amazing start. The purpose of this book is to give you and your family all the tools you need to finally feel happy and healthy while enjoying the gift of nature! So don't wait, get this book today and Start Building Your Own Successful Mini-Garden!

This is not your grandmother's gardening book. You Grow Girl is a hip, humorous how-to for crafty gals everywhere who are discovering a passion for gardening but lack the know-how to turn their dreams of homegrown tomatoes and fresh-cut flowers into a reality. Gayla Trail, creator of YouGrowGirl.com, provides guidance for both beginning and intermediate gardeners with engaging tips, projects, and recipes -- whether you have access to a small backyard or merely to a fire escape. You Grow Girl eliminates the intimidation factor and reveals how easy and enjoyable it can be to cultivate plants and flowers even when resources and space are limited. Divided into accessible sections like Plan, Plant, and Grow, You Grow Girl takes readers through the entire gardening experience: Preparing soil Nurturing seedlings Fending off critters Reaping the bounty Readying plants for winter Preparing for the seasons ahead Gayla also includes a wealth of ingenious and creative projects, such as: Transforming your garden's harvest into lush bath and beauty products Converting household junk into canny containers Growing and bagging herbal tea Concocting homemade pest repellents ...and much, much more. Witty, wise, and as practical as it is stylish, You Grow Girl is guaranteed to show you how to get your garden on. All you need is a windowsill and a dream!

You don't need a lot of space or time to make growing food at home a reality! Discover How Inspiring Woman Is Growing a Huge Amounts of Food Spending 4 Hours a Week in Her City Permaculture Garden! Are you thinking about building your own small garden to grow those delicious fruits, herbs, and veggies your whole family would enjoy? Would you like to make the most out of the space you have and design it in a way even your neighbors will be impressed? Or maybe you just want to fill up that void that you have because of years spent living in big cities with non of your own land? If you answered "Yes" to at least one of these questions, please read on... I've been gardening for the last 6 years, and I would lie to you I sad that my gardening journey was always smooth and pleasurable. Because I didn't really know what I was doing, and constant experiments led to quite a few failures: Wrong size beds... growing certain veggies on the ground instead of vertically... pest and watering issues and even wrong soil choice... These are just a few of many issues I ran into - but it was all worth it, so now I can enjoy what was always my dream: "Growing my own tomatoes, pumpkin, melon, surrounded by sunflower, roses, enjoy a warm tea in my small garden with my future family." - This is a dream I had for myself years ago that became a reality. And now I want to help you to make your dreams come true as well! Take a look at what's inside: - 9 Steps to a Successful Urban Garden - these are going to be lessons I have learned over the years that allowed me to save time and money while enjoying all garden benefits - What types of gardens should you choose according to your situation and desires? - Should you grow vertically or horizontally, and when to do what? (an in-depth guide to making the most out of the space you have) - Most common mistakes you must avoid as a gardening beginner (you will save time, money, and nerves if you avoid them) - What plants to choose for a start? (some of them grow almost completely by themselves!) - Step-by-step guide - everything you need to know from planting a seed to harvesting and maintaining your garden (this is a blueprint that took me 6 years to put together, use it wisely!) - How to store food and enjoy fresh fruits and veggies all year long? - Much much more... And keep in mind that with this book, my goal is not to make you a professional gardener, even though this could be an amazing start. The purpose of this book is to give you and your family all the tools you need to finally feel happy and healthy while enjoying the gift of nature! So don't wait, scroll up, click on "Buy Now," and Start Building Your Own Successful Mini-Garden!