Simple Steps to Success: Fruit and Vegetables in Pots

by DK

Overview

Using a combination of easily accessible information and inspiring photographs, the Simple Steps series promotes gardening as a real pleasure rather than a back-breaking chore.

In Fruit and Vegetables in Pots, learn simple steps to growing and nurturing your own fruits and vegetables in containers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780756689803
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	01/30/2012
Series:	Simple Steps To Success
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	1,095,650
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

DK Publishing was founded in London in 1974 and is now the world's leading illustrated reference publisher and part of Penguin Random House, formed on July 1, 2013. DK publishes highly visual, photographic nonfiction for adults and children, and produces content for consumers in more than 87 countries and 62 languages, with offices in Delhi, London, Melbourne, Munich, New York, and Toronto. DK's aim is to inform, enrich, and entertain readers of all ages, and everything DK publishes, whether print or digital, embodies the unique DK design approach. DK brings unrivaled clarity to a wide range of topics with a unique combination of words and pictures, put together to spectacular effect. It has a reputation for innovation in design for both print and digital products. DK's adult range spans travel—including the award-winning DK Eyewitness Travel Guides—history, science, nature, sport, gardening, cookery, and parenting. DK's extensive children's list showcases a fantastic store of information for children, toddlers, and babies. DK covers everything from animals and the human body, to homework help and craft activities, together with an impressive list of licensing titles, including the bestselling LEGObooks. DK acts as the parent company for Alpha Books, publisher of the Idiot's Guides series and Prima Games, video gaming publishers, as well as the award-winning travel publisher Rough Guides.

Table of Contents

Edible inspirations 8

Plant containers with a range of beautiful crops to create decorative, designs for your garden, patio, window box, or balcony.

Getting started 20

Choose fruit and vegetables to suit your taste, and select the right compost and containers to ensure they thrive.

How to sow and plant 32

Learn how to raise plants from seed and planting techniques and aftercare for a wide range of fruit and vegetables.

Recipe collections 68

Follow these easy planting recipes to create stunning combinations of herbs, fruit, and vegetables in ornamental pots.

Caring for your crops 92

Discover how to keep your plants in peak condition throughout the year, and easy ways to deter pests and prevent diseases.

Plant guide 110

Use this simple guide to some of the best fruit and vegetable varieties to plan your productive posts for all seasons.

Index 140

Suppliers 143

Acknowledgements 144