Fast, Fresh Garden Edibles: Quick Crops for Small Spaces [Paperback]

Fast, Fresh Garden Edibles shows homeowners how to use every square inch of available space to grow fresh vegetables in the shortest possible time. Guides to growing in small gardens, in containers, and in window boxes. How to select and plant the quickest growing varieties of vegetables.IntroductionFast Food?Chapter 1Where to Grow??? No Garden: Growing on Balconies, Window Boxes, Hanging Baskets????Courtyard Garden: Small Space Gardening Using Vertical Spaces??? Soil Beds????Chapter 2How to Grow??? Techniques for Sowing, Thinning, Maintaining, and Harvesting?Chapter 3What to Grow??? Guide to Quick-Growing Vegetables....Courtier helps fans of fresh veggies get their produce faster with a plant-by-plant look at how long things take to grow, and which varieties bear fruit first. ? Daily News Sunday Milford, MA 3.13.2011Jane Courtier was project editor of the Royal Horticultural Society Carol Klein's Grown Your Own Veg Journal and editor-in-chief of Royal Horticultural Society Grown Your Own Kitchen Garden (Mitchell Beazley 2009). She was?co-author of The Complete Vegetable Gardener (Reader's Digest 2006). She has contributed a number of articles to gardening magazines.

Expert advice on cutting the time from sowing to harvesting over 300 varieties of popular vegetables, fruits, and herbs

Garden space tight? No problemgrow bumper crops in containers, on windowsills, and in window boxes

Over 270 photos that will help you grow the quickest fruits and vegetables possible

Tips on improving garden soil, feeding and harvesting plantings, and identifying and dealing with garden pests

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JANE COURTIER has written many gardening books including The No-Garden Gardener, Patio and Courtyard Gardens, and Vegetable Gl(