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Fill your kitchen with homegrown produce! With containers, even the smallest outside space can become a garden bursting with delicious organic fruits, vegetables, and fragrant herbs. Use them to cook, to make beauty preparations, and to decorate. Along with fabulous photographs that show how wonderful this mini garden can look, get all the basics on plant selection and care, plus choosing and preparing containers. Bonus: a plant directory with over 140 varieties and mouthwatering recipes!

Atha tells gardeners how to grow herbs, vegetables, and fruit in small spaces. He explains how to design gardens for containers, patios, roofs, balconies, doorways, steps, and window boxes. He gives information on container gardening basics--choosing containers (pots, troughs, wall pots, hanging baskets), tools, preparing the site, and choosing and buying plants. He also gives data on planting, compost, fertilizing, watering, pruning, using growbags, staking, propagation, pests and diseases, harvesting, and storing. A plant directory of 140 herbs, vegetables, and fruit gives data on their sizes, growing conditions, and uses. This useful guide, with color illustrations on every page, includes herb, vegetable, and fruit recipes. George Cohen
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