Urban Vegetables - Anna Meincke - Non-fiction - Vegetables, Fruit and Herbs in the City

Digging up life, planting vegetables, harvesting food sovereignty: right in the middle of the city!

You love city life but miss a patch of green or a space where you can grow your favorite vegetables , berries, and pots of herbs? You've got to have one, because bountiful harvests are possible in the city too! This book shows you how to get the most vegetables out of every corner: on roofs, balconies, facades, in backyards, in the middle of traffic islands, on your windowsill, and even in the basement . It also provides you with the right ideas on how to get soil onto your balcony, create a raised bed on your roof , get seeds for unusual vegetables, why strawberries love garlic, or how to keep some helpful worms. This way, you can garden according to your needs, depending on the available space, orientation, and your taste. Make your city greener, more edible, and more livable!

Did you know that potatoes grow quite well in sacks? Or herbs in bags? Or mushrooms in tubs? Anna Meincke delivers green visions and inspiration for planting everywhere: vertical gardening, raised beds, urban farms – and if you like, you can even invite fish and chickens into the urban jungle. So you can think outside the box and plant the city of the future today!

This book provides you with super helpful basics and planting instructions, a detailed sowing, planting and harvesting calendar, numerous sample plans and a modular planting kit.

• Cover your city with vegetables, fruits, herbs & mushrooms: Asian salads in front of the window, the scent of lavender in your nose, beneficial insects everywhere: plant your way through the city, break up all the gray areas and reclaim a piece of food sovereignty.
• Harvesting in the smallest space: Whether you're into loose-leaf lettuce or lemongrass, whether you have pots, troughs, beds or planting bags available, whether on a 1m2 balcony or in your community garden – here you become an urban gardener with a fat harvest guarantee.
• Change what you can – right on your doorstep: 'Kalypso' tomatoes, 'Maja' beans, 'Maruschka' carrots – there's so much to discover. And to taste. And to preserve. The more diversity grows on our balconies and in our backyards, the better. For our stomachs and the world, because it's fun and it's the right thing to do.
  

This book is produced in a climate-positive way, printed using an environmentally friendly cradle-to-cradle process, and remains unpackaged and plastic-free.

Publisher: Löwenzahn
Number of pages: 184 pages, hardcover