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    The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff
    The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff
    The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff
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    The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff

    By Dee Nash

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    The 20-30 Something Garden Guide gives that busy, mostly urban, demographic a fun, non-intimidating introduction to the basics of gardening. Garden expert Dee Nash divides her book into four types and sizes of gardens, starting with “Farming Your Patio, Balcony or Deck” and giving incremental goals for the first year, and the second and third. With colorful illustrations/images, step-by-step projects and essential tips.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSt. Lynn's Press
    Release dateFeb 15, 2014
    ISBN9781943366248
    The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff

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      I'm trying my hand at gardening for the first time this year, and I've been feeling rather intimidated because I have no idea what I'm doing. This book helped me feel like I have a handle on the basics, and it was really encouraging and full of good reasons to garden.

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    The 20-30 Something Garden Guide - Dee Nash

    Garden 1

    Small Space Gardening with Containers

    Chapter One

    Sunshine, Soil and New Beginnings

    I’ll be showing you how to lay out a container garden, select the right containers for your needs and get started growing some veggies. You’ll learn about potting soil, water and seeds and how to decipher a seed packet.

    AHH, SPRING. She whispers her siren song on the waft of warm breezes. Tree sap flows, birdsong erupts, and the whole world rejoices in each new leaf. We feel an overwhelming urge to plunge our hands into soil and feel the sun upon our skin. The garden center is crowded with people full of excitement and anticipation. It’s intoxicating. We find ourselves piling way too many plants in our baskets. But then comes the tug of panic – so much to choose from, such a small space in which to garden, so little time to devote to it.

    Take a deep breath and just be

    You don’t need a back or front yard to garden. You can garden anywhere. Begin with your balcony or patio. I’ve gardened wherever I’ve lived; it didn’t matter if it was a mobile home, an apartment or a house with a real backyard. I guarantee that when you bite into that first sun-ripened tomato or sauté your first homegrown poblano pepper, you will be filled with pride and joy. On top of that, your friends will be amazed. Trust me.

    Although this chapter is about your first year of gardening, go ahead and skip ahead through the following chapters as you need to, or as the mood strikes you. You may have an outbreak of insects or disease before I can teach you about that, or perhaps you want to grow fruit, and this chapter doesn’t talk much about fruit. There’s no right way to progress with a garden, or with this book. Things come up. I have some favorite garden books that I enjoy reading cover to cover just for the pleasure of it. Maybe you’ll want to do that, too, before you ever open your first bag of potting mix.

    First things

    START

    SMALL

    When I was a little girl, my family often ate at a local cafeteria where I always chose more food than I could eat. My dad teased me, saying my eyes were bigger than my stomach. Going too large in a garden is like overfilling your plate. Only plan for the number of pots you can easily water. Before you buy six packages of lettuce seed, remember that you don’t need to grow everything you eat. Give yourself permission to buy the rest from local farmers, a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), or the organic section of the grocery store. Although there is something special about pulling an onion straight from the dirt or snipping herbs just before dinner, nothing is more soul sapping than a too-large garden gone bad midsummer. Depending upon your watering system and space limitations, you can replicate all eight containers in this chapter’s plan, or narrow it down to three for the first year. You can even start with one. It’s your garden. No garden police will check on your

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