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Apartment gardening : plants, projects, and recipes for growing food in your urban home / Amy Pennington.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Seattle, Wash. : Sasquatch Books, c2011.Description: x, 181 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 1570616884 (pbk.)
  • 9781570616884 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Plants, projects, and recipes for growing food in your urban home
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Contents:
Before you begin: the basics -- Getting grounded: pots, containers, soil & supplies -- What to grow, for real -- Seeds, seed starting & propagation -- Feeding & watering plants -- Recipes from the garden -- Do-it-yourself garden -- Garden lite.
Summary: No yard? No problem. With more than 80 percent of the American population living in urban areas, Urban Pantry author Amy Pennington details how to start your own garden in the heart of the city. Whether you're a veteran gardener or a novice getting your hands dirty for the first time, this book provides hands-on advice to start using urban space in a sustainable, efficient, and inexpensive manner. Learn how to creatively grow squash on windowsills, flowers in planter boxes, and cucumbers on trellises: every inch of your home offers an opportunity for something planted, pickled, or preserved. Be a part of the rapidly growing do-it-yourself movement! Pennington's friendly voice paired with Kate Bingham-Burt's illustrations make greener living an accessible reality. - Publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 635.0917 P414 Available 33111006978502
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Forget the 100-mile eat-local diet; try the 300-square-foot-diet -- grow squash on the windowsill, flowers in the planter box, or corn in a parking strip. Apartment Gardening details how to start a garden in the heart of the city. From building a window box to planting seeds in jars on the counter, every space is plantable, and this book reveals that the DIY future is now by providing hands-on, accessible advice. Amy Pennington's friendly voice paired with Kate Bingham-Burt's crafty illustrations make greener living an accessible reality, even if readers have only a few hundred square feet and two windowsills. Save money by planting the same things available at the grocery store, and create an eccentric garden right in the heart of any living space.

Includes index.

Before you begin: the basics -- Getting grounded: pots, containers, soil & supplies -- What to grow, for real -- Seeds, seed starting & propagation -- Feeding & watering plants -- Recipes from the garden -- Do-it-yourself garden -- Garden lite.

No yard? No problem. With more than 80 percent of the American population living in urban areas, Urban Pantry author Amy Pennington details how to start your own garden in the heart of the city. Whether you're a veteran gardener or a novice getting your hands dirty for the first time, this book provides hands-on advice to start using urban space in a sustainable, efficient, and inexpensive manner. Learn how to creatively grow squash on windowsills, flowers in planter boxes, and cucumbers on trellises: every inch of your home offers an opportunity for something planted, pickled, or preserved. Be a part of the rapidly growing do-it-yourself movement! Pennington's friendly voice paired with Kate Bingham-Burt's illustrations make greener living an accessible reality. - Publisher.

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