Perfect beginners guide to growing potatoes. This short book explains how to plant and grow organic potatoes for food in the home garden. Recommended for backyard gardeners and container gardeners with small city-sized yards, patios, balconies, decks, and rooftops. Written by the author of the best-selling Fresh Food From Small Spaces gardening book, a former columnist for Urban Farm magazine. Topics Include: * Why Grow Potatoes? Six Great Reasons * Different Kinds of Potatoes (and Where to Get Them) * Growing in Containers, Raised Beds, and Traditional Rows * Planting and Hilling Potatoes *...

This book is a bundled package that combines four practical books. Together, they can help you grow over 30 different delicious organic vegetables in your home garden. These works are particularly helpful for beginning gardeners and anyone who has never grown these vegetables. They are appropriate for urban gardeners as well as others, since they cover both traditional gardening and container gardening for small spaces. The books are: 1. How to Grow Potatoes 2. How to Grow Tomatoes, Peppers, and Eggplant 3. How to Grow Beans and Peas 4. Fall and Winter Gardening Each of these books is...

Valuable guide for beginners on how to start a backyard mini-flock of 2-4 chickens and get fresh eggs every day. Provides all the information you need on chickens, coops, run areas, feeding and caring, and dealing with neighbors and city chicken laws. Written by the author of the best-selling Fresh Food From Small Spaces book, a former columnist for Urban Farm magazine. Topics include: Fresh Eggs Every Day How Much Space Do You Need? Building or Buying a Coop Feeders, Waterers, Nesting Boxes, and Roosts Getting Chicks or Chickens Feeding Your Chickens Tips for Cold Climates Health and Safety...

The Perfect Introduction to Kale Kale is one of the world's most nutritious foods. Eating kale will nourish your body with healthy doses of vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, and antioxidants. On top of its many benefits, kale is the perfect diet food, alkalizing your system and reducing some peoples' urges for salty snack foods. Fortunately, these leafy greens are fairly cheap in stores and simple to grow at home. Sounds great, you think. You head off to the supermarket, where you score a big bunch of organic kale for a few dollars. At home, you steam it or juice it and serve yourself some...