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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.

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