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    Container Gardening: The Ultimate Container Gardening Guide: DIY - How to Grow Air-Cleaning House Plants, Flowers and Organic Vegetables at home
    Container Gardening: The Ultimate Container Gardening Guide: DIY - How to Grow Air-Cleaning House Plants, Flowers and Organic Vegetables at home
    Container Gardening: The Ultimate Container Gardening Guide: DIY - How to Grow Air-Cleaning House Plants, Flowers and Organic Vegetables at home
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    Container Gardening: The Ultimate Container Gardening Guide: DIY - How to Grow Air-Cleaning House Plants, Flowers and Organic Vegetables at home

    By Marie Williams

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    The Ultimate Container Gardening Guide is a very resourceful book that will provide you with plenty of information and gardening tips to introduce beginners to the practice and also improve the skills for those already embracing this noble practice. Readers of this book will benefit from information on How to Grow Air cleaning House plants including more on flowers and vegetables for indoor and outdoor purposes. The book will advice the reader on how to select and design containers that can be used for indoor planting and on how to choose and manage soil from the initial process of planting through the path of maintaining healthy and productive plants. It will show the reader the best plants to use for indoor and outdoor vegetation be it for beauty purposes or for them to be a source of vegetables to use in meals. After reading this book the reader will be able to decide the best places around the house where a plant will do well and provide fresh air for the home while at the same time improving the appearance of the home. It will focus mostly on beautification of the house both inside and outside with details on plants that when planted, either indoors or outdoors, will add to beauty while at the same time providing nourishment for the family.

    The topics to be covered in this book include:

    • Choosing the best plants for Container Gardening
    • Vegetables for in-house and outside container gardening
    • Air-Cleaning indoor plants and flowers
    • A guide to containers for gardening
    • Container gardening planters tips
    • What you need to know about soil
    • Planting and caring of container gardens
    • Watering and feeding container gardens
    • Weed, insects and pests control
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAmazing Publisher
    Release dateJan 31, 2017
    ISBN9781386137481
    Container Gardening: The Ultimate Container Gardening Guide: DIY - How to Grow Air-Cleaning House Plants, Flowers and Organic Vegetables at home

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      Container Gardening - Marie Williams

      Introduction

      Plants continue their dominance in our lives. Besides being a source of food for us and animals they also happen to be the source of elegance that completes a home. Today, a house is never considered complete until it has a number of plants not only on its outside but also in the inside. Build a house and use the best architectural designs available today, give it the best wall colors and wall papers, observe the best practices in interior and exterior designing, furnish it the best way you know how but if all that does not include a number of plants - flowers to be more specific - the house will still feel dead, empty. A few plants will always give that life than completes an elegant house. Having good knowledge and applying a few indoor and outdoor planting makes even the simplest built house look and feel much more exquisite.

      The biggest problem we have today is space. The increase in population, cost of living and cost of land has seen many people end up without room or space where they can put plants to add that beautiful touch to their houses. This has seen a need for alternate ways and means of beautifying houses therefore resulting to the emergence of artificial plants to serve this purpose. Artificial plants are good for the look of the house but they don’t come close to what real plant do. Container gardening practice has therefore emerged and will provide long lasting

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