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Apartment Gardening: Plants, Projects, And Recipes For Growing Food In Your Urban Home (2011)

by Amy Pennington(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1570616884 (ISBN13: 9781570616884)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Sasquatch Books

review 1: This book is a good introduction, but I felt it would have been a better fit if I lived in the Pacific Northwest. I learned a lot about feeding and watering plants. I also had no idea what would be good for container gardening, and this book certainly helped me narrow down what I'm interested in planting. I liked that there was an arc to the book from seed to recipe. In the end, though, I felt simultaneously overwhelmed and undereducated. I'll definitely need to do more research before starting my own container garden.
review 2: Less than half of this 174 page book is actually tips for growing plants in an apartment. Most of this book is comprised of recipes, instructions on how to make homemade beauty products and how to make huge and complicated planters (a f... moreiling cabinet laid on its side won't fit in my apartment or on my tiny balcony). This book wouldn't be useful at all for someone who isn't a beginner at gardening because the chapters that don't feature recipes or DIY instructions are gardening basics like what a plant needs to survive, how often to water, etc. There were a few things in this book I found useful. According to the author the best vegetables to grow in a pot are arugula, cucumber, lettuce, snap peas, strawberries, zucchini. She also gives some ideas for containers you can use for planting like coffee cans, plastic milk crates, gutters, wine boxes and burlap bags. But I probably could've found this information on the internet for free, so I don't recommend this book for aspiring apartment gardeners. less

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