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Zusatztext "With detailed! illustrated advice on selecting and retrofitting containers! cultivation! efficient maintenance! and design plans to pull it all together! Smith's latest guide provides everything needed to grow a bounty of home-grown vegetables." Informationen zum Autor Edward C. Smith is the best-selling author of The Vegetable Gardener's Bible and The Vegetable Gardener's Container Bible. For more than 30 years he and his wife, Sylvia, have lived off the grid in Vermont, in a house they built on land they cleared by hand. Together, the grow more than 100 varieties of vegetables, fruits, and herbs in their 2,000 square feet of gardens and containers. Klappentext Harvest tomatoes on a patio, produce a pumpkin in a planter, and grow broccoli on a balcony! Bestselling author Ed Smith shows you everything you need to know to successfully create and care for an edible container garden, including: Choosing the right plants Selecting appropriate containers Controlling pests without chemicals ?Harvesting fresh vegetables You’ll discover that container gardening is an easy and fun way to enjoy summer’s bounty in even the smallest of growing spaces. With lots of photos for visual reference, Smith’s comprehensive guide will take you through every aspect of container gardening and leave you with home-grown fresh vegetables. “[A] step-by-step approach to container gardening . . . Smith’s practical, assuring, timely, and handsomely produced how-to will see brisk traffic.” —Booklist (starred review) “With detailed, illustrated advice on selecting and retrofitting containers, cultivation, efficient maintenance, and design plans to pull it all together, Smith’s latest guide provides everything needed to grow a bounty of home-grown vegetables.” —Publishers Weekly Zusammenfassung Provides information on growing vegetables in different kinds of containers. This guide explains how to choose the rights plants, select appropriate containers and tools, provide balanced nutrition, care for plants throughout the growing season, control pests without chemicals, and more. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Part One: Get Growing in Containers Introduction: A Vegetable Garden in Pots Chapter One: The Right Pot for Every Plant Chapter Two: What's in the Pot? Chapter Three: Tools and Accessories Part Two: Putting It All Together Chapter Four: Getting Started Chapter Five: Of Seeds and Six-Packs Chapter Six: Designing for Containers Chapter Seven: Caring for Your Container Gardens Chapter Eight: Managing Pests and Diseases Chapter Nine: Harvesting the Bounty Chapter Ten: When Winter Draws Near Part Three: Incredible Edibles Chapter Eleven: The Best Vegetables Chapter Twelve: Herbs for Every Pot Chapter Thirteen: The Edible Bouquet Acknowledgments Photography Credits Further Reading Suppliers Maps Index ...
