Window-Box Allotment: A Beginner's Guide to Container Gardening - Softcover

Bennett, Penelope

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091882567 ISBN 13: 9780091882563

Publisher: Ebury Press, 2004

Synopsis

A guide to month-by-month container gardening for those wishing to maximize all available gardening space. The author has managed to cultivate a fully functional vegetable garden on the roof terrace of her London home. She also includes innovative ideas such as creating a wormery and a compost bin.

About this title

About the Author

Penelope Bennett has no formal training as a gardener. This is her first book on gardening, though she has previously published An Endangered Happiness, a novella and collection of short stories which was nominated for the David Higham Prize for Fiction.

From the Inside Flap

ntroduction to container gardening.

The author has cultivated a tiny but functional vegetable garden on the roof terrace of her Chelsea home. Making use of every inch of available space, her windowsills and floors are crammed with pots while her window boxes are filled with fruit, salads, vegetables and flowers. In this delightful book Penelope Bennett shares a year in the life of her extraordinary garden while giving practical advice on how to plant and maintain your own container garden -- no matter how small.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091882567
• ISBN 13: 9780091882563
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224