The container victory garden : a beginner's guide to growing your own groceries / Maggie Stuckey ; art by Janice Minjin Yang and Lee Johnston.
Material type: TextPublisher: [New York] : Harper Celebrate, an imprint of HarperCollins Focus LLC, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: xiv, 255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780785255765
- 0785255761
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | New | 635.986 S932 | Checked out | 06/20/2024 | 33111011315500 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 gardensThis is the promise of container gardening: a fresh bounty of vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers you can enjoy in every season.
Introduction: Welcome, everyone -- Victory gardens then and now -- Planning your glorious garden -- Gear up! -- Designing, planting, nurturing -- The good stuff: vegetables -- The good stuff: herbs -- The good stuff: edible flowers -- Epilogue: A ribbon through time.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes index.
Even if all you have is a balcony, patio, or front stoop, you can grow and cultivate a fresh bounty of vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers to enjoy in every season. Stuckey pairs the spirit of the Victory Gardens of the 1940s to today's container gardens. Whether you're a new or experienced gardener, Stuckey provides everything you need to know for your own container Victory Garden. -- adapted from back cover