How to Grow Edibles in Containers: Good Produce from Small Spaces
From the author of the internationally successful How to Grow Microgreens, this companion volume is all about growing edible plants when you only have limited space. Fionna grows a huge range of crops throughout the year on her apartment balcony and, as with her previous book, she writes candidly about the successes (and failures), those plants that crop well or not, and she introduces some more unusual varieties such as water chestnut, ginger and tatsoi. With over 45 edible plants described, there is something for all tastes and seasons. Fionna again includes delicious recipes with suggestions on how to use the produce you grow so that you can enjoy salads and cooked vegetables from your garden all year round. There is a chapter on encouraging children to grow their own favourite container edibles (children enjoy vegetables so much more when they have grown them themselves), troubleshooting any issues with your container plants and easy instructions on watering and plant nutrition.
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How to Grow Edibles in Containers: Good Produce from Small Spaces
From the author of the internationally successful How to Grow Microgreens, this companion volume is all about growing edible plants when you only have limited space. Fionna grows a huge range of crops throughout the year on her apartment balcony and, as with her previous book, she writes candidly about the successes (and failures), those plants that crop well or not, and she introduces some more unusual varieties such as water chestnut, ginger and tatsoi. With over 45 edible plants described, there is something for all tastes and seasons. Fionna again includes delicious recipes with suggestions on how to use the produce you grow so that you can enjoy salads and cooked vegetables from your garden all year round. There is a chapter on encouraging children to grow their own favourite container edibles (children enjoy vegetables so much more when they have grown them themselves), troubleshooting any issues with your container plants and easy instructions on watering and plant nutrition.
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How to Grow Edibles in Containers: Good Produce from Small Spaces

How to Grow Edibles in Containers: Good Produce from Small Spaces

by Fionna Hill
How to Grow Edibles in Containers: Good Produce from Small Spaces

How to Grow Edibles in Containers: Good Produce from Small Spaces

by Fionna Hill

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From the author of the internationally successful How to Grow Microgreens, this companion volume is all about growing edible plants when you only have limited space. Fionna grows a huge range of crops throughout the year on her apartment balcony and, as with her previous book, she writes candidly about the successes (and failures), those plants that crop well or not, and she introduces some more unusual varieties such as water chestnut, ginger and tatsoi. With over 45 edible plants described, there is something for all tastes and seasons. Fionna again includes delicious recipes with suggestions on how to use the produce you grow so that you can enjoy salads and cooked vegetables from your garden all year round. There is a chapter on encouraging children to grow their own favourite container edibles (children enjoy vegetables so much more when they have grown them themselves), troubleshooting any issues with your container plants and easy instructions on watering and plant nutrition.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780824853822
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, The
Publication date: 03/31/2015
Pages: 108
Product dimensions: 7.90(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

1 Growing edibles in containers 13

Containers 14

Nutrition for plants 18

Seeds and seedlings 19

Watering 23

Tools 24

Troubleshooting 25

2 Crops 27

Local and seasonal - the keys to success 27

Individual crops 30

Alpinia nutans 31

Basil 31

Bay 34

Beans 34

Beetroot 38

Capsicum 39

Carrots 42

Chervil 43

Coriander 44

Com salacl 45

Cress 46

Cucumber 47

Curry leaf 48

Eggplant 50

Flowers 51

Galangal 53

Ginger 53

Lemon balm 54

Malabar spinach 55

Microgreens - countertop gardening 56

Miner's lettuce 65

Mint 65

Mizuna 66

Mustard streaks 66

New Zealand spinach 66

Okinawan spinach 67

Oregano 68

Parsley 68

Pineapples 68

Potatoes 69

Radish 70

Rocket 70

Rosemary 71

Sage 71

Salad leaves - lettuces, mixes, blends 71

Sorrel 74

Spinach 75

Tatsoi 76

Tiny me 76

Tomatoes 76

Turmeric 79

Turnips 79

Vietnamese mint 80

Water chestnut 81

Zucchini 81

3 Children growing container edibles 83

Fun and fast 83

Creating healthy habits 84

4 Recipes 89

Acknowledgements 104

Photo credits 104

Resources and references 104

Weights and measures 105

Index 106

About the author 108

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