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Gardening in Small Spaces Crops, Tools, and Techniques for Growing Food Year Round

Wendy Kiang-Spray wkspray@gmail.com www.greenishthumb.net Coming December 2016 by Timber Press: The Chinese Kitchen Garden: Techniques, Wisdom, and Recipes from my Family Garden

Or…Poor Space Gardening!

Tools for the Small Space Garden

Raised Beds

Containers, Containers, Containers

Repurposed Containers… Consider Chard

Chard in my Window Boxes…

Your Neighbor’s Window Boxes!

Grow Up… Google “Vertical Gardening”

Balcony Garden with Large Containers

Choose the right crops: Noelle’s radish

Cherry Tomatoes, Peppers, Flowers – more bang for your buck

Consider Multi-Season Plants

Malabar Spinach – year round leafy green

Try Plants that do Double Duty

Tips and Techniques - watering and soil

Google “Self - Watering Containers”

Succession Planting • Grow the same crop continuously • Thomas Jefferson sowed a handful of lettuce once a week • Peas do double duty

Companion Planting • “Three Sisters” garden – corn, beans, squash • Also, Google “Square -Foot Gardening”

Extending the Season (vent if over 40 degrees)

Other tricks to extend the season…

Some vegetables, like tatsoi, taste Frost-Sweetened Vegetables even better after they’ve been hit with a frost! When hit with a frost, certain vegetables turn the starches in their cells to a “botanical anti - freeze” to prevent damage. That starch is sucrose.

Great vegetables to try in winter: Carrots Beets Kale Chard Cabbage Brussels Sprouts Spinach Arugula Broccoli Plants in late summer/early fall. Harvest through the winter. Plants will take off again in the spring.