The Vertical Veg Guide to Container Gardening: How to Grow an Abundance of Herbs, Vegetables and Fruit in Small Spaces

Ridsdill Smith, Mark

ISBN 10: 1645021505 / ISBN 13: 9781645021506

Editore: Chelsea Green Publishing UK, 2022

Condition Notes: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. Codice articolo 1756666

Riassunto:

Don’t be confined by the space you have. Grow all the food you want with this vertical container gardening guide from the creator of “Vertical Veg!”

If you long to grow your own tomatoes, zucchini, or strawberries, but thought you didn’t have enough space, Mark Ridsdill Smith, aka the “Vertical Veg Man,” will show you how to make the most of walls, balconies, patios, arches, and windowsills. With over 10 years of gardening teaching experience and over 200k people in his online community of growers, Mark is the guide you want to help you grow bountiful, edible crops in all kinds of containers in small spaces.

Inside this comprehensive container gardening book, you’ll find:

• Mark’s “Eight Steps to Success”
• How to make the most of your space
• How to draw up a planning calendar so you can grow throughout the year
• Planting projects for beginners
• Compost recipes and wormery guide for the more experienced gardener
• Troubleshoots for specific challenges of growing in small spaces
• How growing food at home can contribute to wellbeing and the local community

With quick, proven results from his own tests, failures, and successes, 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.

Informazioni sull'autore: Mark Ridsdill Smith founded Vertical Veg in 2009 after discovering how much food he could grow on the balcony of his flat. His website and Facebook page inspire and support people to grow food in small urban spaces, and Mark has run workshops across the UK, including for Garden Organic and Capital Growth.

Mark has shared his growing experience on BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time, Alan Titchmarsh’s Love Your Garden on ITV and BBC1’s Countryfile. He has also written a series of 15 articles for the Guardian’s ‘Live Better’ campaign and a feature for Which? Gardening.

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Titolo: The Vertical Veg Guide to Container ...
Casa editrice: Chelsea Green Publishing UK
Data di pubblicazione: 2022
Legatura: paperback
Condizione: Near Fine