The Postage Stamp Vegetable Garden: Grow Tons of Organic Vegetables in Tiny Spaces and Containers

I don't usually buy gardening books because they overwhelm me with requirements and rules right off the bat. Plus, I have a very small patch of full-sun ground and a bigger patch of most-sun and no book seems willing to help me deal with the differences. On a whim, I bought this book and it has become my absolute favorite. Its friendly tone taught me how to use all my space and what to plant, where, and when. Before I knew it, I was laying mulch and buying fish meal fertilizer and off we go! I just cut my season's first leaves of lettuce and am excited for more harvests.The book has excellent quick information: are cucumbers 'hot' or 'cold' plants? How to do I trim my tomato plants? It's all in there and easy to find. How to build a support structure given my materials and abilities? You got it - several different suggestions. I think this book is great for someone getting started. Give it a try - the results will taste like victory.

I like the background material, the concept development and the planting advice. All of this is really solid and gives a good background to intensive gardening. After buying and soaking up this book, I then found references elsewhere to a form of gardening that builds on this information by divided up areas into grids and proscribed what could be in each grid. That is perhaps the only downside to this book is that it does not define easily replicated planting patterns.

We just started container and raised gardening. This was a great introductory tool to help us grow a good amount of veggies and fruits, as well as start our own seedlings. I would recommend this if you are interested in square foot gardening or having a higher yield of produce in a smaller amount of space (i.e. not paying too close attention to the spacing requirements written on the garden tags).

Great information on nutrients needed to add and how to get the most from a smaller garden area.

Giving this one as a gift, I love mine so much. I am 20 years a backyard gardener - but what I have learned from this book tells me I was a novice! Such wonderful information; how to plant, rotate crops, what crops like each other & what does not, and how much to plant in small spaces!! Inspired idea from the author!

I read this book cover to cover, you can’t beat the ideas of getting it all done

My wife is the gardener and requested this book and she loves it.

This is a great resource. I actually flipped through the whole thing, reading snippets from all different parts, the day I got it. You have to love a gardening book that helps you realize you can stash a garden bed (or two) wherever you might have a bit of space AND that is interesting enough you stay up late to finish looking through the whole thing! Go...garden...even a little!

This book has some very good ideas.

Very cheaply made. Newsprint pages and no photos. Not much info I didn't already know. Was quite disappointed. I probably won't refer to it very often.

This little book is great - everything I hoped it would be.

a book for ongoing reference, suits the use it was purchased for,excelent.

Love this book, can't wait to get started