Liberate your food plants from the vegetable garden! Landscape your living space so it offers food for the eyes, heart, and stomach.
With lots of good information, Edible Landscaping: Foodscaping and Permaculture for Urban Gardeners is a how-to gardening manual written by a hard-boiled former horticulturist. Rosefiend Cordell takes the budding gardener on a step-by-step process to transform their sad yard into a merry garden full of ornamental flowers linking arms with tomatoes, herbs, and edible flowers, as well as good fruit and nut trees.
This gardening book features practical gardening methods that help you create a design to build the outdoor living space you want. This book is crammed full of information on foodscaping and permaculture, and how these techniques can help you to build the soil, prepare a garden design, and choose the plants you want. Create a mixed border that cuddles herbs, edible flowers, vegetables, ornamental plants, and fruits together in harmony. It doesn't matter if you have a brown thumb or a green thumb. Whether you live in the city, the suburbs, or way out in the sticks, this handy-dandy manual will teach you how to make the best use of the space you have while opening your eyes to a great old way of gardening that's beautiful, tasty, and deeply satisfying.