Urban Gardening For Dummies ) Author: The National Gardening Association | Language: English | ISBN:
1118340353 | Format: PDF
Urban Gardening For Dummies ) Description
From the Back Cover
Learn to:
- Make the most of limited space with vertical growing tips, rooftop gardens, and more
- Add beauty and color to your landscape with annuals, perennials, and bulbs
- Grow the freshest, healthiest produce possible
The easy way to succeed at urban gardening
A townhouse yard, a balcony, a south-facing window — even a small inner-city apartment can be a suitable location to grow some yummy edibles, develop a colorful flower garden, or create an outdoor room. Urban Gardening For Dummies helps you make the most of what you have through the use of proven small-space gardening techniques that allow gardeners to maximize their use of urban spaces.
- Urban Gardening 101 — get an overview of urban gardening, including soil preparation, planting, choosing urban-friendly plants (including edibles), and plant placement
- Dig in — discover everything you need to know about soil, from analyzing soil types and understanding soil pH to how you can build good soil with manure, organic fertilizers, and compost
- Get a green thumb — find the lowdown on the urban microclimate, local weather patterns, and how you can actually influence weather conditions at micro-levels to benefit the health of your urban garden
- Oh, the places you'll grow — get creative with container gardening and find funky and functional ways to garden on building rooftops, balconies, and with vertical growing strategies
Open the book and find:
- The many benefits of urban gardening
- Tips on planting annual plants and veggies, trees and shrubs, and perennial flowers
- The 4-1-1 on community gardening and urban farming
- How to create an outdoor room
- The scoop on using fertilizers
- Techniques for container and vertical gardening
- Composting tips and soil growing
- Tricks for keeping weeds and pests at bay
About the Author
Paul Simon is a nationally recognized landscape architect, public artist, horticulturist, master gardener, and urban designer. Charlie Nardozzi is a nationally recognized garden writer, speaker, and radio and television personality.
- Series: For Dummies (Home & Garden)
- Paperback: 360 pages
- Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (January 29, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1118340353
- ISBN-13: 978-1118340356
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
WOW! I am blown away by this book. I am an aspiring vegetable gardener with a totally barren and dry desert yard, and I've been stuck because I don't know where to start. Well this book pretty much goes over anything you would EVER need to know! Here are topics covered:
Why should you urban garden? (reduce pollution, improve the neighborhood
Fertilizing
Planting how-tos
Raised beds
Container gardening
Rooftop gradens
Vertical gardening (trellis, arbor, pergola, teepee)
Green walls (ooo! I'd love to try this!)
Community gardening - including growing stuff on unused public land!
Growing food
Growing flowers, roses and bulbs
Growing trees
Lawns and ground covers
Weeding
Watering
Pest control
My favorite section: 10 ways to garden with kids!
One of the most intriguing sections is creating an outdoor room! We have a big, tiered back yard with a metal arbor but it is barren and scraggly and there are 4 dead trees. I would love to use this section to set up a lovely space with watering systems and a green play area for our son! This talks about creating focal elements, contrast, surprises, and using water features and wind chimes. It also talks about repurposing garage sale finds and garbage like cans, cardboard, used coffee filters, milk jugs, and toilet paper tubes into truly useful items for the garden! Free stuff and less garbage - yes!
My absolute favorite idea in the book was one of the last ones - a "sunflower house" for your child! You grow a ring of sunflowers, tie them together at the top, and you have a little playhouse! How cute, and so easy!!! This is in a section of their top 10 kid gardening ideas which I love!
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