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Zusatztext “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! podcaster! and contributing editor to Country Gardens “A must-have handbook for edible gardeners! Bellamy shows us that small can be beautiful and productive.” —Willi Galloway! award-winning writer! radio commentator! and author of Grow! Eat! Cook: A Food Lover’s Guide to Vegetable Gardening “With Andrea’s expert guidance! see how easy it is to tend vegetables! fruit! and herbs right outside your back door.” —Dee Nash! author of The 20–30 Something Garden Guide “Bellamy provides an A–Z (apples to zucchini) guide to edibles and many ancillary sources of information! all accompanied by delightful illustrations and scrumptious color photographs to create a one-stop guide to vegetable gardens sure to encourage and please many aspiring and veteran gardeners.” — Booklist “A comprehensive guide to starting out when space in your garden is limited.” — Gardens Illustrated “This hardworking and enthusiastic guide teaches gardeners how to take advantage of the space they have to create the food garden of their dreams.” — Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland “This guide to urban vegetable growing provides insight into how to make the most of any space! no matter how small. Answering all the questions you’ve ever had about urban vegetable growing. . . . Small-Space Vegetable Gardens is a great beginners guide for anyone who doesn’t think urban living means you have to miss out on home-grown produce.” — Landlove Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Maximize fresh harvests in minimal space. Grow your own delicious food in any space—no matter how small. Andrea Bellamy, of the award-winning blog Heavy Petal , shares a wealth of knowledge from years of gardening small. Learn how to plan and build your garden—on balconies, in raised beds, up walls, across parking strips, and more—as well as how to sow, grow, and harvest an abundance of fresh fruits and vegetables all season long. With a comprehensive A to Z of edibles, including the best small-space varieties, and scores of photos that show creative and surprising solutions to limited growing space, this guide is filled with the hardworking information every small-space gardener craves. Vorwort You can grow vegetables anywhere, including balconies, porches, walls, or wherever you find room. InSmall-Space Vegetable Gardens Andrea Bellamy explains how to grow a bounty of delicious edibles in a minimal amount of space. Preface All around us, a movement is taking place. People are rigging up window boxes for growing herbs, making room on the fire escape for a pot of tomatoes, renovating neglected flowerbeds to make way for raspberries and rhubarb, and convincing landlords to turn over a few square feet of lawn for food production. Families are joining waitlists for community garden plots, signing up for canning workshops, and getting to know their loc...
