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Gardening in Small Spaces Crops, Tools, and Techniques for Growing - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Gardening in Small Spaces Crops, Tools, and Techniques for Growing - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Gardening in Small Spaces Crops, Tools, and Techniques for Growing Food Year Round Wendy Kiang-Spray wkspray@gmail.com www.greenishthumb.net Coming December 2016 by Timber Press: The Chinese Kitchen Garden: Techniques, Wisdom, and Recipes
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Or…Poor Space Gardening!
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Tools for the Small Space Garden
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Raised Beds
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Containers, Containers, Containers
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Repurposed Containers… Consider Chard
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Chard in my Window Boxes…
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Your Neighbor’s Window Boxes!
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Grow Up… Google “Vertical Gardening”
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Balcony Garden with Large Containers
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Choose the right crops: Noelle’s radish
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Cherry Tomatoes, Peppers, Flowers –
more bang for your buck
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Consider Multi-Season Plants
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Malabar Spinach – year round leafy green
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Try Plants that do Double Duty
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Tips and Techniques - watering and soil
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Google “Self-Watering Containers”
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Succession Planting
- Grow the same crop
continuously
- Thomas Jefferson
sowed a handful of lettuce once a week
- Peas do double duty
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Companion Planting
- “Three Sisters”
garden – corn, beans, squash
- Also, Google
“Square-Foot Gardening”
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Extending the Season (vent if over 40 degrees)
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Other tricks to extend the season…
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Frost-Sweetened Vegetables
Some vegetables, like tatsoi, taste even better after they’ve been hit with a frost!
When hit with a frost, certain vegetables turn the starches in their cells to a “botanical anti-freeze” to prevent damage. That starch is sucrose.
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Great vegetables to try in winter:
Carrots Beets Kale Chard Cabbage Brussels Sprouts Spinach Arugula Broccoli Plants in late summer/early
- fall. Harvest through the
- winter. Plants will take off
again in the spring.