The Container Kitchen Garden

by Antony Atha

Fill your kitchen with homegrown produce! With containers, even the smallest outside space can become a garden bursting with delicious organic fruits, vegetables, and fragrant herbs. Use them to cook, to make beauty preparations, and to decorate. Along with fabulous photographs that show how wonderful this mini garden can look, get all the basics on plant selection and care, plus choosing and preparing containers. Bonus: a plant directory with over 140 varieties and mouthwatering recipes!

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

160 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2000

Reviews

[MichelleCH · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not really helpful or inspirational - this book felt thrown together and hurried. There are so many other books that are excellent and really worth buying. Some of it was really common sense; I can't imagine that you would put a large plant in a small pot. Even a beginner doesn't need that level of detail with container gardening. Really disappointing since the cover is so beautiful and it looks very promising.

[Ace · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very helpful breakdown of different herbs, vegetables, and fruits towards the end of the book. Also included several recipes that I can't wait to try. Would recommend for anyone who's just getting into gardening, or looking to start growing a couple plants at home.

[Clarke · Rating 2 out of 5]

While the book is easy to understand with nice pictures it's more Martha Stewart then I was looking for. At this point I want to make sure I can keep everything alive before I focus on the aesthetics of my garden. I also don't have to worry about space but if I did I could appreciate the points made by the author.

[Carolyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Focused more on the design of container gardens. Some useful, but mostly basic, information. The second half of the book contains a directory of common herbs, vegetables and fruits to consider for your container garden.

[Donna Jo Atwood · Rating 3 out of 5]

I just wish I didn't have such a severe case of Black Thumb, which tends to kill off even plastic plants. This book has such wonderful pictures--although the guy is clearly enamored of his pot of eggplants--the same pot showed up in at least four places throughout the book.

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful ideas for edible, decorative planters. Combined with ideas from another book on growing veggies in self watering containers I am going to redesign my patio garden. Yippee

[Kali · Rating 1 out of 5]

Focused more on how the containers looked, and how to make a beautiful garden rather than how to actually tend to the plants. Mostly all the info is common sense. I got maybe 1 good idea for my outside garden out of this book.