RHS Grow Your Own: Crops in Pots: With 30 step-by-step projects using vegetables, fruit and herbs

by Kay Maguire

Overview

30 step-by-step projects for growing vegetables, fruit and herbs in containers

RHS Grow Your Own Crops inPots offers everyone the chance to grow their own food, however small the outdoor space on offer. With this book and all the expert advice of urban gardener and author Kay Maguire, you can turn the tiniest space into a productive and attractive plot, using the best varieties and techniques.

Follow 30 tried-and-tested container planting projects for top tasting crop combinations such as tomato with basil, fruit salads and cut-and-come-again vegetables. Explore the crop directory to find out the best way to grow more than 60 vegetables, fruit, salads, herbs and edible flowers. 

RHS Grow Your Own Crops in Pots includes:

-             Every fruit, vegetable or herb that you can successfully grow in a container
-             The perfect pot for each crop, coupled with the best container varieties
-             Tricks for getting the tastiest and best-looking crops
-             Inspirational style for every garden, balcony, patio and terrace
-             Key techniques for tubs, planters, baskets, boxes and bags
-             Reminders of how to keep your crops in top condition
-             Identifying and solving problems if things go wrong
-             This new edition provides a month-by-month chart of what to do when growing crops in pots
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784728168
Publisher:	Octopus Books
Publication date:	04/05/2022
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	391,923
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Kew-trained author and gardener Kay Maguire is skilled in the techniques of growing crops in pots, and finds space to trial hundreds of new and trusted fruit, vegetables, salads and herbs in her tiny London garden. As former Horticultural Editor of BBC Gardeners' World magazine she is a consummate communicator to an audience of wide ability and discerning taste on the precise, sometimes tricky, growing methods that containers require. A talented cook, she knows a tasty crop when she tries it, and through her efforts she is almost self-sufficient.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Techniques & Tools 10

Planning ahead for a successful harvest 12

Choosing & buying suitable seeds or plants 16

How to establish all kinds of crops 18

How to nurture & protect your crops 22

Stress-free watering 28

Harvesting & storing crops 30

Solving common problems 32

Metre-square year-round planter 36

Fruit 70

Vegetables 74

Herbs 138

Edible Flowers 160

Glossary 170

Index 172

Acknowledgements 176