This exciting guide layers practical gardening fundamentals with creative solutions that encourage thinking outside the pot. Maybe this means repurposing a shipping pallet to create a colorful vertical garden of nasturtiums and lobelia.
With clear step-by-step instructions and advice on which plants suit your space, as well as how to care for them, this is an accessible book for anyone looking to start their own small garden.
Presents a gardening guide that provides techniques to plant and care for containers under all conditions and shows how containers can create boundaries, direct traffic, break up wall space, and soften edges throughout the year.
The methods described in this book are foolproof and easy to follow, with step-by-step directions and photographs, scalable projects for differing needs, and many great ideas for upscaled containers from things you have around your home.
With "Big Yields, Little Pots," you'll learn everything you need to know to turn even the smallest patio or balcony into a verdant oasis crammed with food plants. But this book isn't just about the basics of container gardening.
Would you like to grow a patio full of soup?
For the square trough, choose a pot-grown linden with a dense root system and a straight stem, ideally about 6 ft (1.8 m) high with lateral branches at the top; plant in fall or early spring. 4 Cover the drainage holes with pot shards ...
You can use single, large containers for outdoor decoration, but also consider arranging groups of pots, both small and large, on stairways, terraces, or anywhere in the garden.
Mark will show you how gardening in containers is not just a hobby, but a way of creating a significant amount of delicious, low-cost, high-nutrition food
This is not your grandmother's gardening book.