Bountiful Container: How to Create Container Gardens of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Edible Flowers
Clear and easy directions: Vegetables for every season: 21 varieties of beans, including favas and haricots verts; peppers from sweet orange Valencias to fiery Thai Dragons (a scorcher at 60,000 Scoville units); dwarf eggplants; fingerling potatoes; 17 terrific tomatoes; lettuces; and Asian greens like bok choy, mizuna, and Chinese kale. Herbs, including basils green and purple, exotic lemongrass, soothing chamomile, saffron crocus, and the essential culinary herbs such as parsley, rosemary,...
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With few exceptions-such as corn and pumpkins-everything edible that's grown in a traditional garden can be raised in a container. And with only one exception-watering-container gardening is a whole lot easier. Beginning with the down-to-earth basics of soil, sun and water, fertilizer, seeds and propagation, The Bountiful Container is an extraordinarily complete, plant-by-plant guide.Written by two seasoned container gardeners and writers, The Bountiful Container covers Vegetables-not just tomatoes (17 varieties) and peppers (19 varieties), butharicots verts, fava beans, Thumbelina carrots, Chioggia beets, and sugarsnap peas. Herbs, from basil to thyme, and including bay leaves, fennel, and saffron crocus. Edible Flowers, such as begonias, calendula, pansies, violets, and roses. And perhaps most surprising, Fruits, including apples, peaches, Meyer lemons, blueberries, currants, and figs-yes, even in the colder parts of the country. (Another benefit of container gardening: You can bring the less hardy perennials in over the winter.) There are theme gardens (an Italian cook's garden, a Four Seasons garden), lists of sources, and dozens of sidebars on everything from how to be a human honeybee to seeds that are All America Selections. Publishers Weekly McGee (Basic Herb Cookery) and veteran gardening writer Stuckey (Gardening from the Ground Up) share their expertise and experience in the art of container gardening. Armed with this manual, frustrated apartment dwellers can indulge their passion for growing edible things. If there is an available balcony, porch, front or back steps, according to the authors, growing produce in containers can be easy and rewarding. With some limitations, it is even possible to grow foods in a window box or on an indoor windowsill. This compendium of practical advice includes detailed information on the types of containers to use, equipment needed, the right soil, when to plant which seeds and how best to deal with problems such as too much or too little sunlight. They also explain more sophisticated techniques like succession planting, whereby ongoing seasonal planting takes place in the same container. This can yield a harvest of peas in early summer, tomatoes in late summer to early fall and kale that will grow into winter. Included are mouth-watering recipes for harvested container crops. Written for the beginner as well as for those with a background in gardening, McGee and Stuckey's directions are comprehensive, clearly written and frequently inspiring. Illus. (May) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
PrefaceixIntroduction: From Our Gardens to YoursxiPart 1You and Your GardenChapter 1Managing Your Space3Chapter 2Planning for Good Taste11Chapter 3Making Your Garden Beautiful19Part 2Down-to-Earth BasicsChapter 4Hardware: Containers, Trellises, Tools, and Storage31Chapter 5Software: Soil, Seeds, and Plants49Chapter 6Keeping a Healthy Garden65Part 3Plants for the Bountiful ContainerChapter 7Vegetables79Beans81Beets90Carrots93Cucumbers95Eggplant101Leafy Greens103Lettuce and Other Salad Greens109Onion Family: Scallions, Leeks, and Green Garlic120Peas125Peppers136Potatoes142Radishes147Spinach and Spinach Substitutes149Squash153Tomatoes159Chapter 8Herbs169Basil172Bay175Borage179Chamomile182Chervil185Chives191Cilantro195Dill197Fennel200Feverfew202Lavender205Lemongrass213Lemon Verbena216Marjoram221Mint223Monarda229Oregano235Parsley238Rosemary242Saffron Crocus246Sage252Salad Burnet260Scented Geraniums262Stevia266Sweet Woodruff268Tarragon271Thyme278Chapter 9Fruits285Apples292Blueberries305Citrus309Currants and Gooseberries313Figs321Grapes327Peaches and Nectarines336Strawberries342Chapter 10Edible Flowers349Begonias352Calendulas360Chrysanthemums364Daylilies367Dianthus370Marigolds374Nasturtiums376Pansies, Violas, and Violets382Roses390Sunflowers401Tulips405AppendixU.S.D.A. Hardiness Zone Map414Mail-Order Sources416Index423
\ Publishers WeeklyMcGee (Basic Herb Cookery) and veteran gardening writer Stuckey (Gardening from the Ground Up) share their expertise and experience in the art of container gardening. Armed with this manual, frustrated apartment dwellers can indulge their passion for growing edible things. If there is an available balcony, porch, front or back steps, according to the authors, growing produce in containers can be easy and rewarding. With some limitations, it is even possible to grow foods in a window box or on an indoor windowsill. This compendium of practical advice includes detailed information on the types of containers to use, equipment needed, the right soil, when to plant which seeds and how best to deal with problems such as too much or too little sunlight. They also explain more sophisticated techniques like succession planting, whereby ongoing seasonal planting takes place in the same container. This can yield a harvest of peas in early summer, tomatoes in late summer to early fall and kale that will grow into winter. Included are mouth-watering recipes for harvested container crops. Written for the beginner as well as for those with a background in gardening, McGee and Stuckey's directions are comprehensive, clearly written and frequently inspiring. Illus. (May) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.\ \
