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Window-Box Allotment

A Beginner's Guide to Container Gardening

By Penelope Bennett

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| Paperback | 9780091882563

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A charming introduction to container gardening.

The author has cultivated a tiny but functional vegetable garden on the roof terrace of her Chelsea home. Making use of every inch of available space, her windowsills and floors are crammed with pots while her window boxes are filled with fruitContinue

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Highly recommend this for urban gardeners!

We volunteered on an allotment last year for 6 months, but had to give it up. I was about to freecycle all my veg seeds, when I read this book - cover to cover in a night! I'm *so* glad I did, as it's filled with ideas for gardening on a v. small scale (ie. my balcony), written in a passionate, enth ... (continue)

We volunteered on an allotment last year for 6 months, but had to give it up. I was about to freecycle all my veg seeds, when I read this book - cover to cover in a night! I'm *so* glad I did, as it's filled with ideas for gardening on a v. small scale (ie. my balcony), written in a passionate, enthusiastic and funny style, in a month-by-month diary-ish format.
Initially I was put off by the lack of pics, but it means it's a compact novel size book, in fact much easier to refer to just stuck in a pocket or bag.
It's also documents Penelope's experience with composting, wormerys, ant farms, growing mushrooms, volunteering, bean sprouting *and* cooking her produce...
I love this book!

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