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Harvest tomatoes on a patio, produce a pumpkin in a planter, and grow broccoli on a balcony! Best-selling author Ed Smith shows you everything you need to know to successfully create and care for an edible container garden, from choosing the right plants and selecting appropriate containers through controlling pests without chemicals and harvesting fresh vegetables. You'll discover that container gardening is an easy and fun way to enjoy summer's...

2) Container gardening for all seasons: Enjoy YEAR-ROUND Color with 101 Designs

Author

Wise, Barbara

Language

English

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Presents the basic principles of container gardening and provides designs and diagrams for plantings that are specific for each season of the year.

3) Container gardening for dummies

Author

Marken, Bill

Series

For dummies

Language

English

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Want to spruce up indoor or outdoor space with annuals, perennials, vegetables, and succulents? Get clear, concise step-by-step instructions for cultivating delightful gardens in everything from a redwood window box to a hanging basket to an old watering can.

4) Container gardener's handbook: pots, techniques, and projects to transform any space

Author

Tophill, Frances

Language

English

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"BBC Gardeners' World presenter Frances Tophill provides forty-one step-by-step projects for creative and sustainable container gardens. She covers a range of different planting schemes and types of container, from urns and troughs to chimney stacks and hanging baskets. Frances offers expert advice on what to grow and how to grow it, from bonsai, bulbs, and bamboo to tumbling and creeping plants and flowers"--Page 4 of cover.

5) Container theme gardens: 42 combinations, each using 5 perfectly matched plants

Author

Ondra, Nancy J

Language

English

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Ondra shows you how to choose a container and a five-plant theme, and use them to create a beautiful combination for any season, situation, or taste. She shows you how to choose the color scheme, arrangement, and container that will fit your style.--

6) Small-space container gardens: transform your balcony, porch, or patio with fruits, flowers, foliage & herbs

Author

Richardson, Fern

Publisher

Timber Press

Pub. Date

2012.

Language

English

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Small? Yes. A concrete slab populated with plastic chairs and an abandoned grill? Not anymore.
Small-Space Container Gardens layers practical gardening fundamentals with creative solutions, encouraging us to think "outside the pot." You'll learn how to tackle unique challenges, like windy conditions several stories above street level, and how to care for plants and troubleshoot problems like garden pests and diseases. From design

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7) The container victory garden: a beginner's guide to growing your own groceries

Author

Stuckey, Maggie

Language

English

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"In her trademark warm and informative style, bestselling author and expert gardener Maggie Stuckey shares everything you need to know to succeed with container gardening: planning, gearing up, planting, nurturing, and harvesting"--

8) The container kitchen garden

Author

Atha, Antony

Publisher

Collins & Brown

Pub. Date

2000.

Language

English

9) Simply containers: bright ideas for your patio, balcony, windows & walls

Publisher

Ward Lock

Pub. Date

1997.

Language

English

10) Incredible vegetables from self-watering containers

Author

Smith, Edward C

Publisher

Storey Pub

Pub. Date

[2006]

Language

English

11) The modern homestead garden: growing self-sufficiency in any size backyard

Author

Pilarchik, Gary

Language

English

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"Filled with easy-to-employ ideas and lessons for improving your food self-sufficiency no matter how much land you have, The Modern Homestead Garden focuses on planting, growing, harvesting, and preserving food"--

12) The complete container garden

Author

Joyce, David

Publisher

Reader's Digest Association

Pub. Date

1996.

Language

English

13) Containers in the garden

Author

Dalby, Claus

Language

English

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"Create a bold and beautiful container garden with design and planting guidance from Danish gardening celebrity Claus Dalby in this English-language edition of his book, Containers in the Garden. Beauty, charm, and simplicity are the hallmarks of the Scandinavian planting techniques featured in Containers in the Garden. Celebrity gardener and Danish floral designer Claus Dalby shares his signature container gardening style in this gorgeously illustrated...

14) The city and town gardener: a handbook for planting small spaces and containers

Author

Yang, Linda

Publisher

Random House

Pub. Date

[1995]

Language

English

15) The container garden

Author

Colborn, Nigel

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

[1990]

Language

English

16) The complete guide to growing vegetables, flowers, fruits, and herbs from containers: everything you need to know explained simply

Author

Shepherd, Lizz

Series

Back to Basics Growing

Language

English

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Almost 25% of city homeowners lack the yard space needed to cultivate and grow a decent sized garden (according to Seattle Lawn and Garden) meaning more and more people interested in harvesting flowers, vegetables, and herbs are turning to containers. The options provided by containers are plentiful. This book will provide every potential container gardener with the necessary steps and resources needed to grow their very own crops. From the very outset,...

17) Straw bale gardens complete: breakthrough vegetable gardening method

Author

Karsten, Joel

Pub. Date

2015.

Language

English

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