The container victory garden : a beginner's guide to growing your own groceries / Maggie Stuckey ; art by Janice Minjin Yang and Lee Johnston.
"Whether you have a postage stamp's worth of space or acres to spare, Produce on Your Porch equips you to dig into the joys of container gardening, right where you are"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780785255765
- ISBN: 0785255761
- Physical Description: xiv, 255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), photographs ; 23 cm
- Publisher: [Nashville, Tennessee] : Harper Celebrate, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: welcome, everyone -- Victory gardens then and now -- Planning your glorious garden -- Gear up! -- Desinging, planting, nuturing -- The good stuff: vegetables -- The good stuff: herbs -- The food stuff: edible flowers -- Epilogue: a ribbon through time. |
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Subject: | Container gardening. Vegetable gardening. Victory gardens. |
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The Container Victory Garden : A Beginner's Guide to Growing Your Own Groceries
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The Container Victory Garden : A Beginner's Guide to Growing Your Own Groceries
Even if all you have is a postage stamp's worth of space on a balcony, patio, or front stoop, The Container Victory Garden equips you to dig into the joys of container gardening, right where you are. Imagine this: In the morning, you pluck a few mint leaves from your backdoor herb garden and add them to your tea. A few hours later, you step out onto your patio and collect a handful of lettuce leaves for your lunch salad. Just before dinner, you harvest a few basil leaves and cherry tomatoes for a delicious caprese pasta. In her trademark warm and informative style, bestselling author and expert gardener Maggie Stuckey shares everything you need to know to succeed with container gardening: planning, gearing up, planting, nurturing, and harvesting. In The Container Victory Garden, you will find: detailed line art drawings that illustrate many gardening techniques and set-ups first-person stories of World War II Victory Gardens and their inspiration for today's gardeners beautiful full-color paintings of diverse people enjoying their container gardens This is the promise of container gardening: a fresh bounty of vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers you can enjoy in every season.