You can grow almost anything in a container--and do it almost anywhere! Whether you're tight for space, time, money, or other resources or just want to keep things satisfyingly simple, container gardening is the perfect way not only to explore your love of plants but also to grow your knowledge.

How to start? This is where the Container Gardener's Handbook comes in. Created by The Old Farmer's Almanac, America's longtime trusted gardening resource, this third book is part of a best-selling gardening series that began with the extremely popular Vegetable Gardener's Handbook (now its sixth printing!) and was followed by the beautiful and inspirational Flower Gardener's Handbook. This newest book is a one-stop guide to container gardening success. Inside is everything that you'll need to know about growing vegetables, fruit, herbs, and ornamentals in containers to produce mouthwatering harvests and stunning displays. Filled with beautiful photos that make the book itself a joy to behold, the Container Gardener's Handbook features a simple style and language that opens up a world of fun and creativity for gardeners of all experience levels.

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Many gardeners will agree that there's nothing as rewarding as enjoying produce that they've grown themselves. Fortunately, growing crops in containers enables just about anyone to experience this joy--with no garden plot needed! Find out how to care for and harvest flavor-packed miniature tomatoes, salad greens, peppers, basil, chives, blueberries, citruses, cantaloupes, and other favorites to serve at your next meal!Looking for eye-catching displays to perk up a space? Discover sure-to-please ornamental plants for any situation, plus ideal ways to arrange them in decorative containers for the special look that you want. Let the mantra thriller, filler, spiller help you to design pots with a stunning focal point surrounded by complementary plants that fill in around it and trail over the edge!Learn about plant care, including how to identify and control diseases and pests, select the best potting mix, apply water and fertilizer--and overcome FOOF (fear of overfertilizing)!Wondering how big a container your plant needs? Don't know whether to use terra-cotta or plastic pots? Find out how to choose the proper container by size, type, purpose, and more.Some plants, like geraniums, have lots of varieties from which to choose. If you're overwhelmed by the many options available, just check out the recommended selections for 38 specially profiled plants.For added enjoyment, browse--and learn from--the insightful and entertaining anecdotes from experienced gardeners included in this helpful guide.

This third book in a best-selling Old Farmer's Almanac gardening series takes the stress out of striving for container gardening success and replaces it with fun and excitement. Whether a gardener's goal is more food, more sensational displays, better use of space, a new growing adventure, or all of the above, the Container Gardener's Handbook makes it easy for containers to be in everybody's garden--and many other spots!

Master the art of growing flowers in pots year round with inspiration from stunning full-color images and expert advice from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Year Full of Flowers.

Growing flowers in pots is a charming and accessible way to enhance any space, from large gardens to small city apartments. Get the pots right, and your garden will take on a cheerful energy of its own. They are the bubbles in the champagne, the cherries on the cake, the final flourish that brings a beautiful garden to life. And with pots, there is one iron rule: more is more.

Discover practical design tips that will enhance your containers. Use ingenious tricks when combining flower colors such as choosing a BRIDE (the star of the show), a BRIDESMAID (similar to the bride but smaller and less conspicuous), and a GATECRASHER (the color contrast, which brings the whole thing to life). Learn all about the types of forms and plant structures-THRILLER, FILLER, PILLAR, and SPILLER-and how to put them to best use. And even consider simple concepts with newfound importance, like mounting flower pots onto a wall or elevating them to the table so you see more of them, for instant impact.

Following the seasons, A Year Full of Pots shows you how to make your own evolving tapestry of color through long-lasting container combinations.

Learn all about the most beautiful, hardy and easy-to-grow succulent varieties!

The Essential Book of Succulents is the beginning gardener's best friend, covering the 250 succulent and cacti varieties most commonly found at your local nursery or home improvement center--and the ones that are easiest to grow and to keep healthy.

For each variety you'll find detailed care instructions, a cultivation calendar, and daily maintenance tips, along with:

• A simple but comprehensive care guide explaining placement and repotting so you can keep your succulents thriving year-round
• Step-by-step instructions providing easy, detailed lessons on pruning, plant division and propagation through stem and leaf cutting
• A guide to container arrangements showcasing beautiful succulent combinations and the creative use of containers, so even your first effort will look fabulous
• An extensive illustrated field guide to help you identify over 250 succulents and cacti, with info on each plant's unique characteristics and needs

Permaculture--rooted in centuries-old techniques for growing food with care for the Earth--is the key to producing a bigger harvest than you ever thought possible on your balcony, patio, driveway, deck, and anywhere in between!

With sustainability as her guiding principle, Valéry Tsimba enthusiastically instructs home gardeners of all skill levels and backgrounds in her proven container gardening methods, from start to finish.

• Use the principles of permaculture to increase your garden's productivity, biodiversity, and beauty by starting small and going slow.
• Get set up: Pick the best planters and tools for your space and learn how to adapt to natural conditions like wind and sun exposure.
• Increase your harvest naturally with companion planting, small-space composting, chemical-free fertilizers, and staggered harvests.
• Learn which plants are best suited to container gardens, from leafy greens and pollinator-friendly flowers to strawberries and even melons!

Containers make gardening more accessible for everyone. Whether you live in an apartment, have a disability or chronic illness, have never gardened before, or are an experienced gardener new to permaculture, Container Gardening--The Permaculture Way brings sustainable gardening within reach.

This inspirational guide demonstrates how a glorious outdoor space is possible, even with only a small patio and a few pots. Featuring detailed photos and text by Parkinson who has been named a rising gardening star by Architectural Digest, this new book is the key to success with container gardening.

Parkinson shows how to create a veritable paradise in pots with aspirational season-by-season ideas that are easy to replicate in any situation. The emphasis is on creating a small haven for birds, butterflies, and other wildlife--from flowers for pollinators to small fruiting shrubs that provide winter sustenance for birds. Even an upturned pot can create a welcoming space for a mosquito-eating frog.

The book is filled with planting and propagating advice, tips on improving soil, seasonal tasks, and suggested planting ideas that include both flowering and edible plants for a vibrant backyard oasis. This is container gardening at its most romantic and stylish.

Do you live in the city and yearn for the space and time to grow your own food and live more connected with nature and the seasons? Rebel Gardening shows that anyone can grow a garden of delicious organic fruit and vegetables, wildlife-friendly wildflowers and abundant herbs in absolutely any urban space with a bit of know-how.

Organic gardening expert Alessandro Vitale wants you to embrace the living soil and establish your own city eden where creatures and plants can coexist, in harmony with our modern lives. He shares his low-cost and organic approach with all the essential guidance you will need, including his top 50 plants for beginner gardeners, with a plethora of information on how to plant and look after them and how to make the most of all your produce. Learn how to make vegan honey with dandelions, establish a micro-orchard, or brew a natural antibiotic from garlic.

Alessandro shares a plan for any type of space and how to tend it through the year. Learn about companion gardening, saving seeds, DIY raised beds and everything to allow your garden to flourish. The healing and planet-protecting power of gardening is within your grasp!

We're taking the Recipe Book series outside! In the Container Garden Recipe Book, Lana Williams of the Oakland-based Tender Gardener offers readers dozens of step-by-step recipes for lush outdoor planters, from classic terra-cotta pots to window boxes, urns, bowls, and more. There are recipes specifically designed to adorn your porch or patio (a rustic birdcage-cum-hanging basket, a stately Japanese maple planted in a painted terra-cotta urn) and others that are perfect for backyard entertaining (an elegant tabletop trough of succulents, a concrete water garden that's sure to be a conversation starter). And with Lana as their guide, readers' yards will never be bare thanks to creative designs for all seasons, from urns bursting with spring bulbs to a summer trough brimming with fresh herbs and an heirloom pumpkin converted into the perfect home for fall blooms.

And recreating these stunning designs couldn't be simpler! Each recipe includes a detailed ingredients list and step-by-step instructions, along with hundreds of photos showing where and how to place each plant. Also included is foundational information on planting techniques, care instructions, choosing the right container, as well as plant spotlights highlighting foolproof options for all climates and seasons, from spring bulbs to evergreens.

The most current, useful information on growing Bonsai. Fresh, practical, definitive, comprehensive reference guide to the finest art of horticulture: growing miniature trees. Common sense bonsai answers separating myth from fact with depth and detail. Appropriate for both bonsai hobbyists and experienced practitioners. Featuring Walter Pall Bonsai.

Contents:

Foreword, by Walter Pall 7

Acknowledgements 9

Introduction: From the Plant's Point of View 11

Soil and Substrate Questions

Out of Sight Is Not Out of Mind 17

Organic and Inorganic Materials 20

Physical Properties 26

Chemical Properties 32

Biological Properties 35

Understanding Fertilizers

Essential Elements 38

Organic and Inorganic Fertilizers 40

Fertilize Flawlessly 43

Feeding 101 47

Fast or Slow 49

Liquid or Granular 52

Spring or Fall 54

By the Numbers 55

Fertilizers Are Supplements 62

Can't Always Blame Fertilizers 64

Understanding Biostimulants and Other Such Chemicals 635

Growing Superb Roots

The Perfect Tree 73

Growing Superb Roots 73

Sink Your Roots 75

How Roots Respond 81

Root Pruning 86

The Root Collar 90

Getting Back to Roots 92

Keeping Branches Happy

Branch Parts 97

Keeping Branches Happy 97

Switching Systems 101

Branch Responses 104

The Form of Trees 106

Branching Out 112

Pruning and Manipulating Stems

What Is Pruning? 117

Responses to Branch Pruning 117

Before Making the Cut 119

That Was a Kind Cut 123

Prune Like a Pro 127

Wiring, Major Bending and Minor

Tree Surgery 135

Tools of the Trade 139

Treat My Cuts 139

Keeping Foliage Happy

Solar Power 144

How Foliage Responds 146

Budding Bonsai 151

Leave Our Leaves 152

They Shrunk My Leaves 157

Leaves a' Blazing 158

Responding to Potting

Plants Grow in a Tightly Connected Systems 162

Why and When to Repot 162

Before Potting or Transplanting 166

During Potting 167

After Potting 170

Water, Light, and Temperature

Water Wisely 175

Lighten Up 182

This Cold, Cold Pot 185

Extreme Heat 188

Bonsai Challenges

Content with Our Natural Beauty 192

Why We Are So Small 192

How We Adapt 194

Looking Good 197

Pestering Pathogens 200

Good and Bad 202

Crawling Critters 203

Time to Recover 204

Walter Pall Gallery 209

Index 335

About the Author: Larry Morton, BS Ornamental Horticulture, is the former owner of Landscape Consultants, Inc, and Preferred Trees Nursery. He provides seasoned, proven, professional advice on how you can care for your miniature trees.

Whether your yard is big or small, raised beds are the perfect fit. They allow you to create a controlled growing environment, filled with fertile soil, where plants thrive. Raised beds help gardeners overcome rocky or less-than-ideal soils, there's little to no weeding involved, and they can be as large or as petite as you'd like. You can even use an elevated or mobile raised bed if the only sunny space you have to grow is on a patio, deck, or driveway. In The First-Time Gardener: Raised Bed Gardening, you'll learn how to select the best raised bed for your space, what to fill it with, and tips for staking and trellising plants to save space and improve yields.

Additional advice found inside includes:

• DIY plans for building quick-and-simple beds
• Info on the best soil mixes for filling raised beds
• How to mulch, water, and fertilize your new garden
• Illustrated planting plans to help you determine how many plants fit in each bed
• Step-by-step project plans for unique raised bed trellising systems
• The best beginner-friendly crops to get you started
• How to maximize production from a small raised bed garden
• Tips to get growing in a way that won't leave you feeling overwhelmed halfway through the season

This book is part of The First-Time Gardener's Guides series from Cool Springs Press, which also includes The First-Time Gardener: Growing Plants and Flowers and The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables. Each book in The First-Time Gardener's Guides series is aimed at beginner gardeners and offers clear, fact-based information that's presented in a friendly and accessible way, including step-by-step instructions and full-color illustrations throughout.

Fleshy, spiny, hairy, flowering--and coming in every imaginable shape, color and size--this plant family has captured the affection of plant enthusiasts all over the world. This book provides a beautiful overview of the diversity that succulents have to offer, presenting a wide variety of popular plants to help you create striking, aesthetically pleasing compositions.

This succulent guide includes information about:

• What each variety needs and where it thrives
• Plant characteristics, with ratings on ease of growth and maintenance requirements
• Ideas for group plantings and illustrated tips on indoor planting
• Striking identification photos, rich in color and contrast

Would you like to have fresh vegetables and herbs always available? You like ornamental plants, but don't you know how to start?

If so, this is the book for you!

Even if you're not an expert, this easy guidebook will show you how to plan and implement the container garden you wish!

You can pick your tomatoes from the patio or admire the plants that decorate your home!

In this book, you will learn:

• Right pots for every ornamental and vegetable plant
• The right plants for every season, month by month
• Recycled pots
• Vertical planting system
• Fruit and vegetables in pots

If you don't know how to, take this guidebook and build your container gardening. With its many benefits, container gardening is finding an increasing number of takers these days.

Since all plants will be planted in containers, you can build them according to any room available in your home!

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Harvest tomatoes on a patio, produce a pumpkin in a planter, and grow broccoli on a balcony Best-selling author Ed Smith shows you everything you need to know to successfully create and care for an edible container garden, from choosing the right plants and selecting appropriate containers through controlling pests without chemicals and harvesting fresh vegetables. You'll discover that container gardening is an easy and fun way to enjoy summer's bounty in even the smallest of growing spaces.

*Winner of the GardenComm 2023 Laurel Media Awards Gold Award in the Book Publisher/Producer General Readership Category*

Celebrity gardener and Danish floral designer Claus Dalby shares his signature container gardening style in this gorgeously illustrated book. His distinctive use of a single plant species in each pot, with dozens of planted pots collected together, creates elegant and eye-catching garden displays. Partnered with an abundance of textures and often a monochromatic color palette, Claus's container gardens change with the seasons. By combining flower and foliage colors with beautiful pottery and layered displays, the results are nothing short of extraordinary.

In Containers in the Garden, the English-language version of his top-selling Danish gardening book, Claus shares his best-kept secrets so that you, too, can create the container garden of your dreams. Season by season and color by color, you'll learn how to plant, organize, tend, and share your potted plantings. Whether your display is on the front steps or the back patio, the simple yet bold design methods found here create unique garden features that are a joy to behold.

The breathtaking photography found within, coupled with Claus's descriptive and personal text, features:

• Early season container plantings of tulips, primroses, narcissus, and other spring-flowering beauties
• Lush summer pots, overflowing with dahlias, roses, hydrangea, and foxgloves
• Colorful and textural foliage-only containers to add structure and interest to the collection
• Unusual container plants such as spikemosses, wintergreen, oxalises, and even edible plants
• Tropical beauties bring a summer explosion, including cannas, Brugmansia, and hibiscus
• Autumnal fireworks of bronze, gold, and rust round out the seasonal display

Lookin' to get an early start on your garden? To be more self-sufficient? To save money? Are you ready to start seeds indoors? Then click 'read more' below!

So, you want to grow your garden from the start of the seed...

Perhaps, you have experience starting seeds outdoors but want to discover what it takes to start them indoors!

Or you are a complete beginner to gardening and want to learn from the start of the seed!

Starting seeds is one of the most important skills to have in becoming more self-sufficient.

And let's face it, who doesn't want to start their gardens earlier?

This book will allow you to become 100% self-reliant in growing plants from seeds this season and all the years to come and have the most fun doing it!

In The Gardener's Guide to Starting Seeds Indoors for Self-Sufficient Backyard Homesteaders, you will discover:

How fun it is to start seeds!

How to create your own magic soil

How to easily grow your plants from seeds all on your own successfully

All the most common mistakes made before you and how you can avoid them all

How you can be an even more self-sufficient backyard homesteader

The beauty of photosynthesis

How to become an even better gardener

How to start your garden early

How proud you will be of yourself and your creations

The most rewarding satisfaction you will ever have for your garden

Everything you need to know about starting seeds indoors in just one day!

If you are concerned with the cost of starting seeds indoors, rest assured you can successfully start seeds indoors with any sized budget!

If it's the amount of space you are concerned with to start seeds indoors, then this book is for you!

Starting seeds indoors seems like an intimidating task but after reading this fun and easy book you will have all the confidence and knowledge needed to successfully start and save your seeds for years to come!

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Did you know you could grow vegetables, fruits, and herbs in containers? Well, now you can take your houseplants to the next level by growing home-grown produce and seasoning that will taste delicious in all of your favorite dishes.

How to Grow Your Own Food identifies 50 common, easy-to-grow edible plants from herbs to vegetables, along with detailed care instructions and beautiful illustrations of each plant. You'll find everything you need to know about building your container garden including:
-How to choose the right size container for each plant
-How to water (and feed ) your plants for optimal growth
-When to harvest your crops for the best flavor
-And much more

It's time to turn your decorative plants into ones that will keep you happy and healthy No matter how much or how little space you have in your apartment, you can enjoy everything--from basil to onions to strawberries--with this practical guide to container gardening.

• Features plants that everyone can grow throughout the southeast, with suggestions for overwintering tender plants indoors or replacing them annually.


• Covers key plant-care basics, including options on container selection, potting mediums, seasonal care, pest and disease control, and more.


• Identifies plants that support butterflies, hummingbirds, and pollinators.


• Offers comprehensive lists to help readers select the best plant options for their sites and objectives.


• Gives advice for readers on tight budgets and on how to create attractive containers from found materials.

Sustainability educator and author Anna, aka 'The Urban Nanna', has created a practical guide to empower readers - singles, families, retirees and everyone in between - to start living sustainably. In essence, permaculture (which is one of the best known ways of living sustainably) is a systems-based, sustainable way of living that builds a permanent culture of community connection, earth stewardship, and care of all living things. This comprehensive yet highly accessible book focuses on how renters and those with limited space can adopt these eco-conscious ideals and changes into their lifestyle - from organic waste management and foraging to 'scraptastic' cooking and a section about preserving personal energy and wellbeing.

By equipping readers with the adaptable tools needed to develop the craft of living an authentic, sustainable existence in every space, Everyday Permaculture offers solutions to help ease the personal stressors and struggles of the everyday renter, while combating climate change and the cost of living.