Small-Space Gardening: How to Successfully Grow Flowers and Fruits in Containers and Pots [Paperback]

Peter Loewer (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1592286364 | ISBN-13: 978-1592286362 | Publication Date: December 1, 2004 | Edition: 1st

Expanding the notion of the garden, SMALL-SPACE GARDENING will find a spot in every gardener’s library.

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"Small-Space Gardening includes everything necessary for most unusual and stunning selections of plants available to grow in containers. It will stretch your imagination."--National Garden Clubs Book Reviews

"Small Space will find a spot on every gardener's bookshelf."--Houston Lifestyles & Homes

From the Back Cover

There's no end to the advantages of gardening in containers, and gardening expert Peter Loewer's new book on the subject provides the perfect introduction.
Containers, of course, are the norm in cities and many suburbs, where space is at a premium, but gardeners with plenty of room will also appreciate the benefits of container planting. Containers dress up front walks and mailboxes, hang brightly from the limbs of trees, and energize a deck with color and life. They are a great laboratory for "experiments," and also allow a gardener to grow plants that wouldn't otherwise winter over in northerly climate zones. Older gardeners also love container gardening for its relative simplicity and ease of maintenance.
In concise chapters, Loewer explains:
Light, dormancy, temperature, and watering
Potting and soil mixes
Vertical gardens, including vines in pots
How to create your own pool and surround it with a beautiful water garden
Growing fruits like bananas, alpine strawberries, and mangos in containers
Forcing bulbs
Expanding the notion of the garden, Small-Space Gardening will find a spot in every gardener's library.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Lyons Press; 1st edition (December 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592286364
• ISBN-13: 978-1592286362
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,504,692 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Somebody has to do it!, November 6, 2008

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This review is from: Small-Space Gardening: How to Successfully Grow Flowers and Fruits in Containers and Pots (Paperback)

Thanks to a small press being sold to a larger press then that press sold to another press, here's just one of the hundreds of books every year that are lost to a deserving readership because of corporate greed. Loewer has been writing about and illustrating plants since 1973, has won dozens of awards for both activities, and this isn't the first time he--like many others--has gone by the book wayside. This is a great book and if you don't want to spend the money, go to your local library.