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General information |
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BBC | Dig in: advice about growing food on windowsill, balcony and small back yard |
Martha Stewart | small-space edible garden ideas |
Modern Living | gardening in small spaces |
Mother Earth News | grow a small-space vegetable garden |
Organic Gardening About | Lasagna gardening – no till, no dig |
The Urban Farming Guys | inspirational site featuring small-space food-producing projects in Africa, Asia & Latin America |
These Light Footsteps | permaculture for urban homes and small spaces |
Urban Organic Gardener | how to make seed starter pots from toilet rolls |
US National Agriculture Library | resource list for urban agriculture |
Growing in containers |
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Alaska Grow Buckets | great, free guide to setting up an automatic watering container gardening system |
Balcony Container Gardening | great site with tons of information about growing crops in containers on your balcony |
Better Homes & Gardens | growing vegetables in containers |
Container Gardening | a brief history of gardens in containers |
Container-Gardening-for-Food.com | blog of a UK gardener with just a patio |
Dummies.com | basic information on container gardening |
North Carolina Co-op Extension Service | container vegetable gardening |
Ohio State University | factsheet on container vegetable gardening – good overview |
Organic Gardening Magazine | article on container gardening |
Organic Gardening Magazine | article on growing fruit in pots |
Royal Horticultural Society | growing veg in containers |
The Small Garden | growing food in guttering, pallets, wine crates and more |
University of Illinois | the world of container gardening |
Urban Organic Gardener | how to build a self-watering container garden |
Wikipedia | entry for container garden |
YouTube | videos by MyContainerGardening – including automatic watering systems |
Raised beds |
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Small beds with edges, so that the soil is higher than the paths around it; they warm up and drain more quickly, provide easy access and the soil doesn’t get compacted because they’re not walked on. | |
Organic Gardening Magazine | article on raised bed gardening |
Organic Gardening Magazine | 5 different ways to raise the sides of the beds |
QuickCrop | raised bed vegetable gardening |
Wikipedia | entry for raised bed gardening |
Keyhole beds |
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Raised beds, but with a ‘notch’ for access, and often with a central container for compost and greywater, which leaches into the bed to fertilise it. | |
Appropedia | two videos explaining keyhole beds |
Inspiration Green | lots of pics of different types of keyhole beds |
Permaculture Research institute | how to build a raised bed keyhole garden |
Send a Cow | promoting keyhole gardening in Africa |
Square-foot gardening |
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Method of gardening where crops are grown in grid squares, together with different species rather than in rows of one species. Less wasted space, fewer weeds & pests. | |
Garden Organic | square foot gardening |
Square Foot Gardening Foundation | promoting square-foot gardening |
Tim’s Square Foot Gardening Page | blog of master gardener |
Wikipedia | entry for square-foot gardening |
Straw-bale gardening |
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If you have a small space and poor soil, or maybe even no soil, you can use a straw-bale as a planter, with a little soil and compost placed on top. | |
Grow & Make | how to grow a straw-bale garden |
Modern Farmer | how to build a straw-bale garden – pictoral guide |
No Dig Vegetable Garden | guide to straw-bale gardening |
Straw Bale Gardens | website of the author of the book of the same name |
YouTube | video on straw-bale gardening |
Vertical gardening |
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You can maximise yield from a small space by growing vertically – either with plants that climb, or by using a system of containers at different levels. | |
Instructables | DIY vertical planter |
Mother Earth News | vertical gardening techniques for maximum returns |
The Tiny Life | some good ideas here |
Urban Organic Gardener | how to make a hanging herb garden using recycled plastic bottles |
Urban Organic Gardener | how to start a hanging herb garden using a pallet |
Vertical Gardener | blog – no yard? no problem |