Beginner's Guide to Successful Container Gardening: Grow Your Own Food in Small Places! 25+ Proven DIY Methods for Composting, Companion Planting, Seed ... Easy and Effective Gardening Series)

by Sophie McKay

Growing your own organic vegetables and fruits in containers, pots, and grow bags is easier than you think!All you need is this book, the right conditions, and some patience! You can grow your food indoors, on balconies, windowsills, rooftops or patios – just about anywhere.

Your guide on this road will be Sophie McKay, an avid gardener and an emerging author in gardening, permaculture, and sustainability. She'll share her best tips and tricks to ensure your gardening journey is a success.

In Beginner's Guide to Successful Container Gardening, you will

How to handle the limitations of your space and use your available areas efficiently.Easy-to-follow methods of designing your vegetable garden by observing your site and creating a space that holistically caters to your annuals, biennials, and perennials. Container types you can use to grow plants, including ways to recycle everyday objects to help you become a genuine zero-waste individual.The magic ingredients that guarantee you can create your own soil by utilizing your kitchen waste and urban resources.Easy and smart methods for creating a compost tea, a nettle tea and a worm farm for the most fertile soil.Simple yet efficient techniques to water your little garden, including saving rainwater and using smart irrigation systems for containers.DIY techniques of building a cold frame, creating self-watering pots, bokashi composting, making leaf mold and other projects.Proven succession planting techniques to ensure that there is always something ready to harvest, regardless of the season.A host of companion plant ideas for your veggies so they can flourish together cooperatively.A how-to guide for using nontoxic methods to control critters, pests, and diseases.Methods and tips for harvesting your seeds for the next planting cycle.Ways to preserve your harvest including the canning, drying, freezing, and dehydrating methods. Sophie also shares some of her favorite recipes!Get started today and empower every aspect of your life. If you follow the guidelines, you are sure to save money, grow healthy, organic food for your family and generate long-term success.

Armed with the right tools, you'll feel confident as your garden grows.If thousands of others can do it, so can YOU!

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

170 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 22, 2023

Reviews

[Sarah Nealy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy to read and great tips and ideas for starting your own container garden. I will be going back to this book often as I plant and tend to my balcony garden!

[Emily Grace · Rating 5 out of 5]

Talk about a "One Stop Shop" of information! I was well pleased when reading this Beginner's Guide as it truly is an incredibly helpful step-by-step for the first time gardener like myself. Ms. McKay was direct and to the point on the how-to's of making the most out of small spaces, even giving the most beneficial sides of a building (North, South, East or West) for different plants. I was grateful that each chapter was specific to answering any question a beginner would have including charts, pictures and tables. SO DELIGHTED! But Ms. McKay doesn't just leave you hanging with just starting your garden, no, she also includes when to harvest and how to preserve using different methods. As someone who was eager to start a garden this year, I was also nervous because it can be daunting. This Guide came along just in time to make me less nervous and even more excited now that this knowledge is at my fingertips. I look forward to sharing pictures of my progress as well as the fruits of my labour with friends and family, especially the recipes included! Yum! Reading this book was like speaking with a friend as it included some of her own experiences which gave me a smile. She did not, however, overly indulge and went right back to sharing her wisdom. Just the kind of friend I appreciate! This is a book you will be thankful to have at hand to start your garden anywhere.

[Jacqueline Bates · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book with lots of information. Follows on from the author’s book on permaculture. How to grow with nature in small and not so small spaces. I will be using a lot of the information in my garden this year. I have learnt so much from this book, looking forward to trying these methods in the spring.

[Kathleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

So helpful!

I love that the information offered in this guide is so clear, simple, and concise. I have several gardening books, but I think this will be the one I refer to most this growing season because I can very quickly look up the answers I need without having to sift through page after page. I'm going to read her permaculture book next!

[Georgina Van · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book for anyone looking for good info and instructions on container gardening. I have been gardening for 40 years and learned a few new ideas I can put to use in my garden. I especially liked the illustrations about container sizes and volume, I always have a problem with that! This was an easy read and so very useful.

[Wout Faber · Rating 5 out of 5]

As someone with very little knowledge about growing my own foods and even struggling to keep my plants alive sometimes, this was a super helpful guide!

Sophie takes you step by step and made me feel confident that I can actually do this myself. Not only that, I am actually excited to start growing and even bought my first seeds today!

Thank you Sophie for this wonderful guide.

[Bonnie Wilhelm · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent guide to gardening. She covers everything! Climate, soil, fertilizer, pests, right time to pick and even some recipes at the end. A lot of information in this book even for experienced gardeners. I highly recommend this book to anyone planning to plant a garden this year.

[LPK B · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well written book with tons of practical advice. I made several DIY ideas, but my favorite is the self-watering container solution. It will be perfect for the coming soon hot days.

[Pamela · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this book to be very informative and helpful.

[Barbara Hill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good , in depth book.

[Karen Adair · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book with lots of good information. I recommend it.