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How to Garden When You Rent (2022)Published Jan 1, 2022Pottage organizes projects by how long you expect to stay. If you’re there for a few months, you can skip straight to ideas for a short lease. The balcony and yard examples give you a way to think about what’s worth planting when you may want to take the garden with you.0 - 2
Vertical Veg Guide to Container Gardening (2022)Published Jan 1, 2022Before you buy pots, follow Ridsdill Smith’s suggestion to spend time watching where the sun falls and where the wind catches. That makes this a useful food-growing guide for anyone trying to work with the conditions on a doorstep or balcony. It also gives you somewhere to turn when a crop goes…0 - 3
Grow Containers (2021)Published Jan 1, 2021If knowing what to buy is the part that stops you, Stebbings narrows your choices to plants that suit containers. The book covers suntraps as well as shaded corners. Take it along when you’re choosing a plant for one particular spot and want to know how to keep it going.0 - 4
Container gardening complete (2017)Published Jan 1, 2017When pots swing from soggy to dry, start with Walliser’s material on drainage and watering. She gives you several ways to think about what’s happening at the roots before you blame yourself or buy another plant. The projects can be scaled to the space you have, with ideas for reusing containers.0 - 5
Shade (2022)Published Jan 1, 2022A window box with very little sun calls for a different shopping list. Grant’s plant directory makes room for interesting foliage and seasonal flowers, so you can look for something that fits the light you actually get. Use the book to plan around the shade on a balcony or in a small courtyard.0 - 6
Small-space vegetable gardens (2014)★ 6.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2014Bellamy is worth picking up when you’ve gained a little more space and need to decide what to do with it. Her guide covers containers, raised beds, and small in-ground plots, then gives you crop profiles to compare. It’s a useful next step for someone moving from a couple of balcony pots to part of…0 - 7
The Money-Saving Gardener Containers (2026)Published Feb 10, 2026Lautenbach’s starting point is what you already own. Read her suggestions for repurposing pots and propagating plants before you decide what you need to bring home from a nursery. The emphasis on saving water and potting materials makes this a good companion when the cost of replacing plants has…0 - 8
McGee & Stuckey's Bountiful Container (2002)Published Jan 1, 2002Keep this on hand when vegetables and herbs have started to feel familiar and you’re ready to look up fruits or edible flowers for a pot. The book’s range is its appeal. You can use it as a reference for one crop at a time, especially if you plan your containers around what you like to cook.0 - 9
Pots (2022)Published Jan 1, 2022Rycroft helps you plan what a container will look like through the year. If you’re staring at a pot that has lost its one good display of flowers, use her plant directory to think about foliage and shape as well as the next thing to bloom. This is a compact guide for people who have a window box or…0 - 10
Containers in the Garden (2022)Published Jan 1, 2022Dalby often uses one kind of plant in each pot and gets his variety by putting pots together. You can borrow that idea with a few containers and rearrange the group as things come into bloom. The photographs show displays on a generous scale, so start by borrowing a color combination or a spring…0
