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The easy way to succeed at urban gardening
A townhouse yard, a balcony, a fire escape, a south-facing
window--even a basement apartment can all be suitable
locations to grow enough food to save a considerable amount of
money and enjoy the freshest, healthiest produce possible.
Urban Gardening For Dummies helps you make the most of
limited space through the use of proven small-space gardening
techniques that allow gardeners to maximize yield while minimizing
space.
Covers square-foot gardening and vertical and layered
gardening
Includes guidance on working with container gardening,
succession gardening, and companion gardening
Offers guidance on pest management, irrigation and rain
barrels, and small-space composting
If you're interested in starting an urban garden that makes
maximum use of minimal space, Urban Gardening For Dummies
has you covered.
Auteur
Paul Simon is a nationally recognized landscape architect, public artist, horticulturist, master gardener, and urban designer. Charlie Nardozzi is a nationally recognized garden writer, speaker, and radio and television personality.
Résumé
The easy way to succeed at urban gardening A townhouse yard, a balcony, a fire escape, a south-facing windoweven a basement apartment can all be suitable locations to grow enough food to save a considerable amount of money and enjoy the freshest, healthiest produce possible.
Urban Gardening For Dummies helps you make the most of limited space through the use of proven small-space gardening techniques that allow gardeners to maximize yield while minimizing space.
Contenu
Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Conventions Used in This Book 2
What You're Not to Read 2
Foolish Assumptions 3
How This Book Is Organized 3
Part I: Urban Gardening 101 3
Part II: Gardening Basics 4
Part III: Places and Ways to Garden 4
Part IV: Growing Plants in the City 4
Part V: Growing to Perfection 5
Part VI: The Part of Tens 5
Icons Used in This Book 5
Where to Go from Here 6
Part I: Urban Gardening 101 7
Chapter 1: Gardening in the City 9
Knowing the Basics of Soil Prep 9
Finding the Many Places to Garden the City 10
Growing All Kinds of Plants in The City 11
Trees and shrubs 12
Edibles 12
Annual flowers 13
Perennial flowers and roses 13
Lawns and groundcovers 14
Exploring the Down and Dirty of Growing 14
Weeding and mulching 15
Watering 15
Pest patrol 15
Chapter 2: Reaping the Benefi ts of Urban Gardening 17
Enjoying Local Produce from Urban Food Gardens 18
Looking at places to grow food 18
Checking out urban food gardening projects 19
Creating Healthy Cities 22
Reducing pollution 22
Making cities more livable 25
Improving the neighborhood 26
Chapter 3: The Urban Microclimate 27
The Sunny City: Working with the Sun and Warmer Urban Temperatures 27
Taking advantage of seasonal solar angles 28
Dealing with solar glare 29
Minimizing the Heat Island Effect 29
The Windy City: Working with Seasonal Urban Wind Patterns 32
Taking Macroclimate and Microclimate Conditions into Account in Your Garden 34
Knowing your hardiness zone 34
Considering your own microclimatic conditions 35
Part II: Gardening Basics 37
Chapter 4: Getting to Know Your Soil 39
Determining Your Type of Soil 40
Understanding the different soil types 40
Figuring out what you have 41
Checking Your Soil's Drainage 42
Performing a percolation test 43
Mastering the metal rod test 43
Discovering Your Soil's pH Level 44
Finding Out What Lies Beneath the Soil 45
Doing a little digging (literally and fi guratively) 46
Protecting yourself from soil contaminants 46
Chapter 5: Feeding and Fertilizing Your Soil 51
Organics 101: Plant Matter 52
Adding a Little Something Extra to Build Soil Fertility: Animal Manure 54
Making Compost and Growing Soil 56
Composting safely in the city 56
Choosing a container 57
Building your pile 58
Troubleshooting common composting problems 59
Composting with worms 60
Giving Your Plants and Soil a Boost with Fertilizers 62
Getting to know the big three in commercial fertilizers 62
Wet versus dry fertilizers 63
Applying a side dressing of fertilizer 65
Chapter 6: Getting Your Hands Dirty: Planting How-To 67
Planting Annual Flowers and Veggies 67
Starting with a raised bed 68
Deciding whether to buy seeds or transplants 70
Making a seed-starting schedule based on frost dates 71
Growing your own seedlings 73
Picking out transplants 74
Planting your annual or vegetable garden 75
Planting Trees and Shrubs 78
Buying a tree or shrub 78
Digging the hole and planting 79
Getting your trees and shrubs off to a good start 82
Planting Perennial Flowers, Bulbs, and Roses 83
Buying and planting perennial flowers 84
Buying and planting bulbs 84
Buying and planting roses 86
Part III: Places and Ways to Garden 89 **Chapter 7: Crea...