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Incredible Vegetables from Self-Watering Containers: Using Ed's Amazing POTS System | 
| Author: Edward C. Smith
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 21366
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1580175562
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.986
EAN: 9781580175562
ASIN: 1580175562
Publication Date: January 1, 2006
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Product Description
Shiny green cucumbers; firm, juicy tomatoes; baby lettuces handpicked one salad at a time—these are the tasty benefits of the backyard vegetable garden. But earth gardens are a lot of work. They require a plot of plantable land and a significant time commitment to sowing, watering, weeding, and tending each plant.
Is there a solution? Self-watering containers allow vegetable gardeners—from the casual weekender interested in a tomato plant or two to the very dedicated gardener with limited space—to grow richly producing plants in a controlled, low-maintenance environment.
Lifelong gardener Ed Smith became fascinated with the possibilities of self-watering containers and began testing dozens of vegetables in various containers, experimenting with nutrients, soil mixtures, plant varieties, and container positioning. Now Smith is here to tell gardeners that anyone can grow and enjoy wonderful organic vegetables, using pots with continuous- flow watering systems.
Smith shares advice on choosing appropriate containers, how to provide balanced nutrition using his secret soil formula, and what additional tools benefit the container gardener. The reader will also find advice on starting from seed versus buying plants, which vegetables thrive in containers and which might be a bit more challenging, along with space-saving tips on pairing plants in single containers. After the last green tomato has been picked and is ripening on the windowsill, Smith wraps everything up with a chapter on fall clean-up and preparing for next spring. Now there’s really no excuse for store-bought tomatoes!
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 Incredible Vegetables from Self-Watering Containers: Using Ed's Amazing POTS System October 24, 2008
Looks like it will help me in my patio gardening next year. I am new at gardening in pots so I am anxious to put this book to good use. Great on describing the steps. I have always been a ground gardener, but rules have changed in our neighborhood and so far my pot gardening has not done well. I need this book to give me the knowledge to make my pot gardens tremendously abundant.
 The proof is in the container! August 11, 2008
This is a great little book to get you started using self-watering container systems. It is well organized and provided me with sufficient information to, for the first time, successfully grow a bounty of tomatoes and lettuce and to start my little dwarf meyer lemon tree to begin blooming again. There is a great section at the end of the book for resources for purchasing some of the materials, and the section that covers the specifics about various types of plants, which do well with containers and which don't really need them, was also a great help toward getting started.
I've already loaned this book to several friends who are looking forward to trying the method. For me, I wanted a sure-fire way to get maximally healthly and productive plants with a minimum of effort. Setting up the pots takes about 45-60 minutes, and after that your plants just take off! I love going out my kitchen door and picking fresh lettuce every day for my salads, and to not have to worry about watering every day, which in the heat of San Jose summers is fantastic! Easy, fun and rewarding - what more could you ask from a gardening book?
Incredible Vegetables - Self-Watering Containers June 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was very helpful. I am just starting a 'balconey' garden.
The containers are helpful....the veggies are growing happily!
D.O.
Growing veggies in containers March 29, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Incredible Vegetables From Self-watering Containers is a book I purchased for my daughter. She lives in Show Low Az. in a wooded area and the soil is not that good. So she thought she would try growing some veggies in containers this year. I bought the book for her to give her some ideas on how to do it. She has a green thumb and was brought up on a farm so she loves to grow things. I would recomend this book to anyone wanting to grow anything in containers.
 Very Average July 19, 2007
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
This book starts out good and states that it's going to tell you how to make your own self-watering containers. However, once you get through all the initial fluff, I found the details necessary to actually follow through on the author's suggestions to be extremely limited. The author discusses how to make any pot self-watering, but uses a ready made insert. Then he does not say where to get the ready made insert from. Parts of the book read more like a pat on the back to his own successes with pictures from his own garden. That's great, but I bought the book to learn how to set up my own self-watering system which I still am at a loss after reading the book. I was very disappointed.
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