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    Apartment gardening : plants, projects, and recipes for growing food in your urban home / Amy Pennington.

    • Title:Apartment gardening : plants, projects, and recipes for growing food in your urban home / Amy Pennington.
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    • Variant Title:Plants, projects, and recipes for growing food in your urban home
    • Author/Creator:Pennington, Amy, 1974-
    • Published/Created:Seattle, WA : Sasquatch Books, ©2011.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Urban gardening.
      Container gardening.
    • Edition:1st ed.
    • Description:x, 181 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
    • Summary:No yard? No problem. With more than 80 percent of the American population living in urban areas, Urban Pantry author Amy Pennington details how to start your own garden in the heart of the city. Whether you're a veteran gardener or a novice getting your hands dirty for the first time, this book provides hands-on advice to start using urban space in a sustainable, efficient, and inexpensive manner. Learn how to creatively grow squash on windowsills, flowers in planter boxes, and cucumbers on trellises: every inch of your home offers an opportunity for something planted, pickled, or preserved. Be a part of the rapidly growing do-it-yourself movement! Pennington's friendly voice paired with Kate Bingham-Burt's illustrations make greener living an accessible reality. - Publisher.
    • Notes:Includes index.
    • ISBN:9781570616884 (pbk.)
      1570616884 (pbk.)
    • Contents:Before you begin: the basics
      Getting grounded: pots, containers, soil & supplies
      What to grow, for real
      Seeds, seed starting & propagation
      Feeding & watering plants
      Recipes from the garden
      Do-it-yourself garden
      Garden lite.
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