The Container Victory Garden: A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Your Own Groceries

Written by Maggie Stuckey

Narrated by Charity Spencer

Grow and enjoy your own fresh veggies and herbs, even if you don't have a yard. Start a thriving container garden with this accessible beginner's guide and experience the satisfaction of seeing your grocery bill shrink.

Do you want amazingly fresh veggies and herbs but are worried that you don't have enough space or the gardening experience?

Even if all you have is a tiny amount of space on a balcony, patio, or front stoop, The Container Victory Garden equips you to dig into the joys of container gardening, right where you are. In this beginner's guide you will learn how simple it can be to plan and grow your own container garden in whatever space you have available so can you start enjoying fresh vegetables and herbs in no time and begin saving money as prices at the grocery store continue to increase.

In her trademark warm and informative style, bestselling author and expert gardener Maggie Stuckey shares everything you need to know to succeed with container gardening. In The Container Victory Garden, you will find:

• A guide to planning your container garden so you know what is important, where to begin, and how to move forward.
• A walk-through of all the essential equipment and supplies you will need for container gardening success.
• A step-by-step guide on designing your container garden space, planting your seeds, and cultivating your veggies and herbs.
• A guided tour of the best vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers to plant in your container garden along with thorough guidance for planting, growing, and harvesting each kind.

 

A fresh bounty of vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers is waiting for you, and The Container Victory Garden will provide you with everything you need to know to get started. Filled with detailed line art drawings that illustrate many gardening techniques and set-ups, first-person stories of World War II Victory Gardens and their inspiration for today's gardeners, and beautiful full-color paintings of diverse people enjoying their container gardens, this book will inspire and equip you get growing (and saving) today.

Tables, illustrations, photo gallery, and the appendix are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Harper Celebrate
• Release date: Feb 21, 2023
• ISBN: 9780785255819

Maggie Stuckey

Maggie Stuckey is a gardener who cooks, a cook who gardens, and a writer happily immersed in both arenas, as the titles of her books suggest: Gardening from the Ground Up, Soup Night, Country Tea Parties, The Complete Spice Book, The Complete Herb Book, The Houseplant Encyclopedia, and five others. She divides her time between Portland, Oregon, and the tiny coastal town of Ocean Park, Washington.