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Window-Box Allotment
by Penelope Bennett
The author shares the example of her own 16-foot by 8-foot garden--wherein she grows 31 varieties of potato, six different fruit trees, raspberries, tomatoes, peas, peppers, beans, artichokes and more--to help readers best utilize their own tiny spaces.
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Small is Bountiful: Getting More Crops from Your Pots
by Liz Dobbs
Demonstrates how to create a working fruit, vegetable and herb garden on a patio, sharing comprehensive projects that explain how to use gardening containers, window boxes and hanging baskets to grow 30 edible crops, in a volume that also outlines strategies for watering, fertilizing and pairing crops with flowers.
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Grow Vegetables in Pots
by Dorling Kindersley Limited
Offers helpful hints and advice for growing vegetables, fruit and herbs in pots and planters for those living in small spaces and without access to a large yard or patio.
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Teeny Tiny Gardening
by Emma Hardy
Includes 35 full-color projects for small-space gardening, including mini eggshell gardens, a vertical garden of herbs planted on a stepladder, bathtub flower garden and more, including ideas for children's gardens.
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Grow Your Own in Pots
by Kay Maguire
Discover the essential techniques to growing more than 60 vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers in containers. With this book you can use the best varieties and techniques to turn the tiniest space into a productive and attractive growing space. Follow 30 tried-and-tested 'recipes' to choose top-tasting combinations such as growing tomato with basil, vegetables that thrive in small spaces, and grow-your-own fruit salads. Discover the essential techniques that every container gardener needs to know, and use the crop directory to find out the best way to grow more than 60 vegetables, fruits, salads, herbs and edible flowers.
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Saving Container Plants: Overwintering Techniques for Keeping Tender Plants Alive Year after Year
by Brian McGowan
Enjoy your favorite container plants year after year! From geraniums to fuschia and beyond, many container plants can be overwintered and enjoyed again the next season. This Storey Basics guide offers simple techniques for overwintering a variety of common tender perennial plants, based on what kind of dormancy the plants go through in their native environment. You can easily overwinter most plants with few to no pest problems, simply by giving them the dormancy conditions they need. Includes a plant-by-plant guide for quick reference.
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The Encyclopedia of Container Plants: More than 500 Outstanding Choices for Gardeners
by Ray Rogers
Container gardening is ideally suited to today’s lifestyles — it provides the excitement, versatility, and variety of in-the-ground gardening to those with limited space, time, and resources. Author Ray Rogers profiles more than 500 outstanding plants in 180 genera. Along with Rogers’s engaging descriptions, the entries include each plant’s height and spread; light, moisture, temperature, and soil requirements; ease and rate of growth; principal interest and design attributes; potential problems; and best method of propagation. Rob Cardillo’s stunning photographs add a wealth of visual inspiration.
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Pots in the Garden: Expert Design and Planting Techniques
by Ray Rogers
A colorful introduction to outdoor container gardening offers helpful advice and creative suggestions that encompass an exploration of fundamental principles of good garden design, including how to use color, form and mass, texture, line and repetition, spacing and siting, focal points, water features, and a range of containers in a landscape.
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Michigan City Public Library
100 E. 4th Street
Michigan City, Indiana 46360
219-873-3044
http://mclib.org/
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