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Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Limited
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Since cities were first settled, urban dwellers have created gardens on their doorsteps, cultivating beauty and gaining delight from their efforts, however small the landscape. Urban Flowers explores the many ways in you can bring colour and interest to a small city garden, whatever its location and whatever your taste. Garden designer Carolyn Dunster demonstrates hundreds of ways to make your outdoor space bloom. By using her colour-themed planting...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
These verses, which can be sung to the tune of Old MacDonald Had a Farm, show the different ways you can grow a garden even in a small space, such as a balcony, in a back lot, or on a rooftop.
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Pub
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of two single men who turned a backyard lot into a productive garden, with advice on setting up a permaculture, choosing suitable food plants, and designing an urban garden that functions as a natural ecosystem.
Author
Publisher
Yellow Pear Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Seed to Table focuses on how to feed your family with nutritious foods from your own outdoor, home and/or kitchen garden. Whether you live in a city or in the country, this book gives you tools on effective growing techniques, seed starting methods, and garden maintenance. Organic gardening for every individual style! Have fun while you create your own gardening system whether it be for a container garden or a kitchen garden. Try out big and small...
13) Tiny space gardening: growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs in small outdoor spaces (with recipes)
Author
Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This guide shows readers how to successfully grow edibles--including vegetables, herbs, and fruits--in urban spaces, such as a balcony or back patio. The book includes approximately 30 simple recipes, including starters, sides, mains, and desserts"--
Author
Publisher
Pavilion
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Food can be grown just about anywhere and lack of space should not put you off growing and enjoying the taste of your own fresh vegetables. Through inspirational photographs of real plots, this book explores all sorts of possible growing spaces, including small pots on balconies and roof gardens, window boxes, old tires and kitchen sinks, hanging baskets and growbags. Filled with practical advice, inspiration, planting and design ideas, 'My Tiny Veg...
Series
General technical report NRS-P volume 39
Publisher
USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
17) City beet
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Victoria and her neighbor, Mrs. Kosta, grow such a spectacular beet garden that they need the entire neighborhood's help to pull out a giant beet.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"How to grow a thriving orchard and reap a bountiful harvest in less than a year – in both urban and non-urban settings. Would you like to supplement your diet with healthy and delicious fruits from your backyard, but you feel like the space is too small? Do you like the idea of having an orchard right outside your window but have zero ideas of where you should start? Have your previous attempts of growing a fruit garden failed, and you want to...
Author
Publisher
ECW
Pub. Date
[2018].
Language
English
Description
"Farmers' markets and local eating might have revolutionized the way we look at food, but many of us can't identify the fruit trees in our yards or declare a berry safe to eat. Those plants, and the people who planted them, are often forgotten. ...Helena Moncrieff investigates the origins of these living heirlooms, their decline into raccoon fodder, and the urban harvest renaissance that is putting rescued fruit to good use. As she travels across...