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The Abundant Mini Garden’s Guide to Vertical Vegetable Gardening: How to Use Trellises to Grow More Food in Less Space

** An Amazon Best Seller in Gardening and Horticulture, Urban Gardening, and Garden Design ** This 140-page book includes 90 images. Discover how you can harvest up to $150 worth of organic vegetables from plants grown on trellises in a tiny 4’ x 4’ garden bed! You can tuck this size bed into the smallest yard – and you only need a few minutes per week to care for it. * Discover the incredible amounts of food that you can harvest from a small vertical garden * Learn when you should NOT use a vertical garden * Produce the highest yields possible by giving your plants these five things * Double or triple your harvest from a small vertical garden bed with this one simple tip * Discover which type of trellises work best with different vegetables * Learn how to design your vertical garden for maximum yield and comfort * Discover how to properly train and prune the large vining plants on your trellises * Get detailed directions for easily creating a large $20 trellis that will last over 15 years A single large winter squash plant can easily grow 20 feet across on the ground. That’s a huge amount of space for just one plant, and you would need to do a lot of work to keep that much area weeded, fertilized, and watered. But you don’t need a lot of space or time in order to grow large vining vegetable plants if you learn how to grow them vertically on trellises. The author, Debra Graff, has 35 years of experience in growing organic food in small garden beds, and has trained new Master Gardeners about vegetable gardening. In this book, she shares many of the secrets that she has learned over the years on how to produce a tremendous amount of food from a small vertical garden.

Wildly Affordable Organic: Eat Fabulous Food, Get Healthy, and Save the Planet–All on $5 a Day or Less

Buy Green. Eat Green. Save Green.If you’ve wanted to eat like it matters but felt you couldn’t afford it, Wildly Affordable Organic is for you. It’s easy to think that “organic” is a code word for “expensive,” but it doesn’t have to be. With these ingenious cooking plans and healthy, satisfying recipes, Linda Watson reveals the incredible secret of how you can eat well every day–from blueberry pancakes for breakfast to peach pie for dessert–averaging less than two dollars a meal.Get ready for wild savings! You’ll discover how to:Ease your family into a greener lifestyle with the 20-minute starter planGo organic on just $5 a day–or go thrifty and spend even lessTake advantage of your freezer and freeze your costsFind the best deals at your local farmers’ market or grocery storeCook easy, scrumptious, seasonal dishes from scratchPacked with tips for streamlining meals, from shopping and cooking to washing dishes, this book shows how sustainable living is within everyone’s reach. Slow global warming with delicious dinners? Lose weight, save money, and save the polar bears at the same time? When you live the Wildly Affordable Organic way, it is possible! Join the movement to change the way you eat–and keep the change.