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Indoor kitchen gardening for beginners
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- Book Synopsis
- Grow fresh, organic produce in your house, condo, apartment, basement, or sunny downtown office. From herbs and mushrooms to tomatoes and microgreens, a year-round garden is yours to create. In this condensed, beginner-friendly edition of Indoor Kitchen Gardening, you'll discover it takes just a few dollars and a few days for you to enjoy fresh, healthy produce grown indoors. Accent home-cooked meals with your own carrots, lettuce, herbs, and microgreens, all cultivated right inside your own home. Author Elizabeth Millard teaches you how to grow dozens of different edible plants-from sprouts and mushrooms, to tomatoes, peppers, and more-on a sunny windowsill, under grow lights, or even in a basement, where you won't have to worry about pests or climate unpredictability. In Indoor Kitchen Gardening for Beginners, you will find: An introduction to growing edible plants indoors, from defining your goals and choosing a space, containers, soil, and grow lights to overcoming potential challenges.Guidance for selecting the best crops to grow indoors with a focus on those that are quick to harvest, such as microgreens, shoots, herbs, wheatgrass, sprouts, and mushrooms.Know-how for growing leafy greens and root crops that grow well indoors-including radishes, carrots, lettuces, and arugula.Information on growing fruiting plants that take time to develop their rewarding bounty-such as tomatoes and peppers-and how to coax them to fruit in an indoor environment. Filled with DIY in-home gardening information and projects, this is your gateway to an exciting-and delicious!-new hobby where wholesome, nutritious, organic edibles are the reward.
- About The Author
- Elizabeth Millard is the author of Indoor Kitchen Gardening and Backyard Pharmacy. She and her partner, Karla Pankow, also own Bossy Acres, a 100-member community-supported agriculture farm in Minnesota that provides seasonal produce to members and area restaurants in an effort to build a strong and sustainable local food system. Millard often leads workshops on vegetable and herb gardening as well as herb preparation, fermentation, and cooking with seasonal ingredients. As editor of local sustainable food site Simple Good and Tasty, she encourages readers to connect with the state's abundance of organic growers, ranchers, food artisans, nonprofit agencies, and each other, forging a stronger food landscape. In addition to farming, teaching, and editing, she has contributed articles to Hobby Farm Home, Experience Life, and Urban Farm magazines, along with many other publications. She and Karla live in south Minneapolis.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780760397886
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- New Shoe Press, (27 February 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 144
- Weight
- 440 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 235 x 190 x 9 mm
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