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.Fast, Fresh Garden Edibles solves two problems for many home gardeners. It shows gardeners without gardens how to grow vegetables in the smallest of spaces, including turning a small mostly paved courtyard or patio??into a bountiful garden and how to make use of window boxes, containers, and hanging baskets to produce healthful and tasty fresh vegetables. And for those who want results without waiting all summer to start harvesting, Fast, Fresh Garden??Edibles provides planting and growing techniques that help produce vegetables quickly. In addition, the book focuses on those vegetables and vegetables varieties that are known for sl“„