Container Gardening: Growing Vegetables, Herbs, Fruit and Flowers in Pots on Patios, Balconies and Small Spaces

A pot on a doorstep looks like a simple thing: a vessel, some compost, a hole in the bottom. Yet it has to give a plant everything the open ground would, from water and food to a little shelter for the roots, and it has to do it from a space you could carry in your arms. Well, some of them you could carry.

This book is about that vessel and what happens inside it. It starts with the container itself: how a pot differs from a border, how to read your site, and how to choose materials, size...