A review by bluejayreads
The Vegetable Gardener's Container Bible: How to Grow a Bounty of Food in Pots, Tubs, and Other Containers by Edward C. Smith

4.5

I have a bad habit of picking up reference books and then trying to read them straight through with narrative books. This is very much a reference book, and it took me a while to read through. That said, it's a fantastic reference book. It's beautifully designed and full of gorgeous pictures of plants and garden tools, and it's packed full of so much information. There's the stuff I expected, like creating a good soil mix for pots and choosing the right containers and picking varieties of plants to grow in pots, but there's also stuff I didn't expect but found incredibly useful, like what pests to watch out for with each plant (and how to deal with them), how to best transplant plants, what kind of supports may or may not be needed, and even which plants grow well in the same pot. A spectacular reference book and one I will be consulting regularly when the weather gets warm enough to plant things.