Over the past year or two, many of you know that I have become very fascinated with gardening. I have loved the thought of growing my own food for years, and while I have toyed with a few things here and there, I have decided it was time to do more than a little garden this year and go all out. It is time to expand beyond our fruit trees, potted bushes, and my tiny bed of tomato plants. Since the growing season is here in my growing zone, I have been doing all the research I can to get started. Luckily, I had a new book arrive last week to help me be more prepared creating my home garden – Field Guide to Urban Gardening: How to Grow Plants, No Matter Where You Live: Raised Beds – Vertical Gardening – Indoor Edibles – Balconies and Rooftops – Hydroponics. After going through this book for the past week, I couldn’t wait to share it with you guys!
Field Guide to Urban Gardening: What Is It
Want to start gardening in your own apartment, condo, or home, but aren’t sure where to start? If so, we think you will love Field Guide to Urban Gardening: How to Grow Plants, No Matter Where You Live: Raised Beds – Vertical Gardening – Indoor Edibles – Balconies and Rooftops – Hydroponics. Here is what the publisher has to say about this new gardening book:
In Field Guide to Urban Gardening, author Kevin Espiritu of Epic Gardening shares the basics of growing plants, offers tips on how to choose the right urban gardening method, and troubleshoots the most common problems you’ll encounter.
If you think it’s impossible to grow your own food because you don’t have a large yard or you live in the city…think again. There is a plethora of urban gardening options to create beautiful, productive edible gardens no matter where you live. The key to succeeding as an urban gardener is to choose the method(s) that make sense for your unique living situation and then give your plants what they need to thrive. Kevin helps you do just that.
But he doesn’t stop there. He also provides in-depth garden plans, from upcycled DIY projects and intensive hydroponic systems to beautiful and functional raised beds. Urban gardening is a real, growing, and important movement in today’s world. This fact-packed book is your roadmap to get growing today.
Urban gardening techniques featured include:
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Container Gardening
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Raised Beds
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Indoor Edibles
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Balconies and Rooftops
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Hydroponics
Field Guide to Urban Gardening: Our Thoughts
As someone who loves gardening but doesn’t have a whole lot of usable gardening room, I was pretty excited to start digging into Field Guide to Urban Gardening: How to Grow Plants, No Matter Where You Live: Raised Beds – Vertical Gardening – Indoor Edibles – Balconies and Rooftops – Hydroponics. From the moment you open the book and started skimming, I have to admit; I was blown away. It is rare you see a garden book that is filled with gorgeous, usable, step by step pictures on just about everything involving gardening. This may very well be the most down to Earth gardening book, going over building your own raised boxed garden to taking advantage of every little space you have inside and out. They even go through things to help save you money. While the entire book is beautiful and detailed, the most interesting to me was the hydroponics section, which went into more detail than I have seen just about anywhere (including books on the subject). I feel much more comfortable experimenting with this growing method now after reading this book. If you are seriously considering building your own urban garden in your home, condo, or even apartment, I highly recommend getting a copy of Field Guide to Urban Gardening: How to Grow Plants, No Matter Where You Live: Raised Beds – Vertical Gardening – Indoor Edibles – Balconies and Rooftops – Hydroponics.
Field Guide to Urban Gardening: Where To Purchase
Would you like to purchase this awesome book for yourself or someone you know? You can find Field Guide to Urban Gardening: How to Grow Plants, No Matter Where You Live: Raised Beds – Vertical Gardening – Indoor Edibles – Balconies and Rooftops – Hydroponics on Amazon.com for under $20. Who knew gardening could be so easy?
About Susan Bewley
Susan Bewley is a professional writer who has been writing content online & in print format for over 10 years. As well, she is an alumni of the University of Louisville with a Masters Degree in Special Education. When not working as an online business consultant or ghost writing, she can be found writing on Budget Earth, on her own novel, or working with various entities in the pet industry.