Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #781900 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
"For urban gardeners short on growing space, here is a plethora of ideas on how to create a relaxing, productive haven, whether on a windowsill or small balcony. Addressing concerns about pollution, the authors show how to design, create, and organically care for herbs, vegetables, fruits, and ornamentals in urban environments. There are also recipes and a list of vegetables, herbs, and fruits (including growing information) suitable for city gardens."

From the Publisher
James is not a professional gardener, nor is he someone with plenty of time on his hands, but last year he grew enough herbs, fruit, vegetables, and salad greens in his garden to eat something home-grown and totally fresh almost every day. His garden isn¹t a vast vegetable plot, nor a kitchen garden. In fact, it¹s a very small but lush patch of soil in the heart of a city. Urban Eden shows that a garden can be productive as well ornamental, that it can thrive on a window sill, and that edibles need not be exiled to the vegetable patch. Every aspect of urban gardening is addressed, from choosing a design suitable for one¹s needs to dealing with wildlife. Complete with a plant directory, recipes, and a generous array of color photos, Urban Eden demonstrates just how resourceful the gardener can be.

Customer Reviews

Organic gardening in tiny spaces
If you want to grow your own food, but don't have any space, this is the book for you. Even though it's set in the UK, and I live in Australia, I found plenty of ideas that I was able to use to successfully grow food in a 2 square metre plot behind my house. There are lots of different options shown (eg rooftop, indoors, balcony, pots), with lots of colour photographs. I liked that there was a focus on design as well- not only should the area be productive, it should look attractive.

What a breath of fresh air
Living in a small space with no bed to call my own I picked up this book and read it. It was wonderful! Lots of information on gardening specifically for the urban dweller. The photographs were wonderful, as was the writing. Included information on raised beds, regular beds, container gardening, fruits and vegetables, flowers, and anything else the city dweller might want to grow. Also included really interesting information on pollution and its effects on the urban dweller's garden and information on pests and what can be done to control them. There was also a heavy influence of organic gardening and how this might be done in the city.

An excellent book all around, it's become my new favourite gardening book.

gen x ad copy
This is not a gardening book, its a Gen X ad copy, coffee table book. Save your money, buy a real garden book, I garden and found it just useless.