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Crops in Pots | 
 enlarge | Author: Bob Purnell
Publisher: Readers Digest
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 55703
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 9.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0762108428
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.986
EAN: 9780762108428
ASIN: 0762108428
Publication Date: April 5, 2007
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Product Description
Nothing beats the taste of home grown fruit and vegetables! Even if you only have a tiny patio, balcony or just a windowsill, you can still grow a bountiful crop. Enjoy the simple pleasure of nurturing plants and reap the rewards of your harvest with simple and delicious recipe ideas. The 40 original and beautiful projects for containers in 'Crops in Pots' are great to look at and will be a constant source of fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs throughout the summer months. With easy-to-follow planting plans, detailed plant profiles, easy-care symbols and delicious recipe suggestions, anyone can grow fruit and vegetables, regardless of how much space they have. From apples and onions to strawberries and mint, the choice is endless!
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 Inspiring and helpful September 22, 2008
As an apartment-dweller my growing space is limited. This book was very helpful in advising how to manage small spaces for big results.
 Okay book April 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book has lots to offer for different varieties of crops in pots, but limits the gardener to things like peppers, tomatoes, and herbs (often bunched together to creat a salsa garden, or something of the type). Nice imagery and some helpful tips, but I beleive there are better resources out there for beginning garderns like myself who want to master one item per pot first before mixing and matching.
Like it's subject, attractive but limited April 14, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Imagine a cluster of attractive pots filled with a lush mixture of edible and ornamental plants-- containers you can enjoy on your patio, tend without stooping and protect from deer and rabbits. For anyone who dreams of a manageable, small-scale vegetable garden, Crops in Pots is bound to be alluring. The book is divided into several parts: a "how to" section discusses how to choose and plant containers, water, fertilize and so on; three sections feature lovely photographs of potted combinations of "starters" (mostly lettuce and herbs), "main courses" (mostly vegetables) and "desserts" (mostly fruits); and an all-too-brief final section on "what to grow" discusses the cultural needs of different fruits and vegetables and suggests cultivars well-suited to containers. This attractive book may help propel you out into your yard or garden center when the prospect of digging up a large area of garden would seem too daunting. The book's drawback lies in the somewhat simplistic presentation of the suggested container projects. If you are a novice gardener,you will need to consult the final section on "what to grow" as well as additional gardening books to really understand the needs of particular edibles so that your project can successfully come to fruition. If you are an experienced gardener, you are likely to find that this book, though visually appealing, fails to break new ground.
 Not what I thought it would be April 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I got this book thinking that it would teach me how to grow my vegatables in pots because I dont have the space to plant in the ground. It was more of a fancy way to grow them with other display plants. It was not exactally what I was looking for.
Crops in Pots October 10, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is amazing...I live in an apartment and having such versitile gardening options gave me just what I needed.
The planting instructions and recipes are easy to follow and create amazing beauty.
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