Great gardening book.

[mommy4ever]

I have to say I love our library I can get just about anything.

Yesterday I started to read "Bountiful Container" by Rose Marie Nichols McGee and Maggie Stuckey

I am about 1/4 way through it. It is a very easy read. I have learned so much already.

My yard just isn't suitable for a vegetable bed. After seeing my dad's container garden of tomatoes, potatoes and cucumbers, I figured I needed to look into it further. This book is not about flowers, it's about veggies!

One shares that her desire to container garden began after her mother returns from Greece raving about her aunts balcony garden that is producing so much food for everyone in that apartment. The author starts looking into it for her mom, whose arthritis is limiting her ability to garden. Containers made it possible for her.

It explains about types of plants that do well in containers(SOOO many), soils(or un-soils) to use, fertilizer, what can be used as a container, how to combine for succession crops, or to make a beautiful presentation that is still useful to you in terms of produce. How to start from seed, how to transplant, about the plants - vegetables, fruit and edible flowers. Gardening with children.....And a lot more.

I am sketching plans now and finding free flower pots that people are tossing to create more container gardens next year. Even in the front yard..lol.

Just a random tip... did you know that if you want to have a particular plant 'spilling' over the edge of your container, if you do the transplant at 45º it will do it sooner and nicer than if you plant it up right? The roots will adjust and grow downwards regardless.

[peanut]

We normally container garden. But it's been so wet this year and we took our vacation during the spring/early summer, so didn't get to plant. However, DH is missing his garden. So I imagine next year we'll be back at it full force. I'm bucking for taking this year off to fix up the yard anyway. Including building new planters.

Thanks for the book suggestion.