Container Victory Garden: A Beginner's Guide to Growing Your Own Groceries

In this must-have gardening book filled with inspiration, first-person stories and full-color photos, a bestselling author and expert gardener provides all the essential information on planning, planting, nurturing and harvesting a successful container garden. Original. Illustrations.
"In her trademark warm and informative style, bestselling author and expert gardener Maggie Stuckey shares everything you need to know to succeed with container gardening: planning, gearing up, planting, nurturing, and harvesting"--
Whether you have a postage stamp's worth of space or acres to spare, Produce on Your Porch equips you to dig into the joys of container gardening, right where you are.
Even if all you have is a postage stamp's worth of space on a balcony, patio, or front stoop, The Container Victory Garden equips you to dig into the joys of container gardening, right where you are.Imagine this: In the morning, you pluck a few mint leaves from your backdoor herb garden and add them to your tea. A few hours later, you step out onto your patio and collect a handful of lettuce leaves for your lunch salad. Just before dinner, you harvest a few basil leaves and cherry tomatoes for a delicious caprese pasta.In her trademark warm and informative style, bestselling author and expert gardener Maggie Stuckey shares everything you need to know to succeed with container gardening: planning, gearing up, planting, nurturing, and harvesting.In The Container Victory Garden, you will find:detailed line art drawings that illustrate many gardening techniques and set-upsfirst-person stories of World War II Victory Gardens and their inspiration for today's gardenersbeautiful full-color paintings of diverse people enjoying their container gardensThis is the promise of container gardening: a fresh bounty of vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers you can enjoy in every season.