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URBAN HOMEMAKER'S WITH SMALL SPACES
Mary's
Homestead has always wanted to help the urban homesteaders. There is an increasing number of people that want to do gardening
because of the high grocery prices. We have decided to help the urban homesteders. You can garden in small spaces such as
patios, rooftops,and window boxes. People are now digging up there front lawns to grow a garden because of the economy.
Jerrie and John have a big garden but we also, grow about 40-50 plants in containers and we bring them in the house
for the winter. We use a halogen and grow lights in the winter for the containers and we have some fresh produce and herbs
all winter. We have experience to help you and we will be glad to do that.

THE BOUNTIFUL CONTAINER
BY
ROSE MARIE NICHOLS MCGEE & MAGGIE STUCKEY
Create container gardens of vegetables, herbs, fruits &
edible flowers.
This is the bible for small-space gardeners who want to grow what they eat.
Discover a world far beyond the expected cherry tomatoes in a flowerpot. A world with no weeds, no soilborn
diseases, and no overplanting, where you can fine-tune sun and shade and bring perennials indoors for the winter.
With few exceptions, everything edible that's grown in the traditional garden can be successfully raised in a container.
Which means that even if you have just one pot on the balcony or patio, delicious fresh produce can be yours for the harvesting.
This book will give you what vegetables, fruits and herbs you can grow in a container.
This book gives you 21 varieties of beans, many ways with herbs, and even has many ways to grow fruits, and edible flowers.
432 pp. paperback

CHART FOR
SMALL SPACE GARDENERS
For those who must grow their vegetables in small spaces this chart gives the approximate
number of plants a square foot of container space will accommodate. Containers should be at least 8 inches deep for medium
sized and small vegetables but a foot to 18 inches deep for vegetables such as tomatoes, eggplants or corn. In the case of
corn a 4-foot-square space is desirable to provide good cross pollination.
Measurements
do not have to be exact and circular containers work as well as square or rectangular ones.
VEGETABLE
NO./PLANTS/PER-SQ.FOOT
BEANS
3-4
BEETS
25
BROCCOLI 3
CABBAGE
2
CHARD, SWISS 9
CORN
2
CUCUMBER 1
EGGPLANT 1
LEEKS
64
LETTUCE(LEAF) 4
MUSKMELON 1
ONIONS
16(COOKING ONIONS)
ONIONS
100(GREEN BUNCHING)
PARSLEY
16
PEAS
25
PEPPERS
4
POTAOES 1
SWEET POTATOES 1
RADISHES
144
SPINACH
4
SUMMER SQUASH 1 (BUSH)
WINTER SQUASH
1 (BUSH)
TOMATOES
1 (REGULAR)
TOMATOES
2 (DWARF)
TOMATOES
2 (HUSK)ground-cherry
FRESH FOOD FROM SMALL SPACES
BY R. J. RUPPENTHAL
THE SQUARE INCH GARDENER'S
GUIDE TO YEAR-ROUND GROWING, FERMENTING, AND SPROUTING
CITY APARTMENT? SUBURBAN TOWNHOUSE?
YOU CAN GROW
YOUR OWN FOOD !
FRESH FOOD FROM SMALL SPACES is a practical, comprehensive, and downright fun guide to growing
food in small space wtihout relying on complicated and energy intensive systems like indoor lighting and hydroponics. Readers
will learn how to transform their balconies and windowsills into productive vegetables gardens, their countertops into sprout
and muchroom farms, and their pations into a haven for honeybees and chickens. Amazingly, almost no space is too small
or too dark to raise food.
R. J. Tuppenthal, an attorney and professor at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose,
California, worked on an organic vegetable farm in his youth, but his expertise in urban and indoor gardening has been hard-won
through years of trial-and-error experience. In the small city homes where he has lived, Ruppenthal and his family have been
able to eat homegrown food 365 days per year.
MARY'S HOMESTEAD IS NOW OFFERING THE 2010
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WE NOW HAVE THE SMALL
SPACE SEED KIT ON THE HEIRLOOM SEED PAGE.
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