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Summary: A Great Production Book
Review: This book is written with commercial operations in mind--either retailers putting together container gardens or wholesalers managing production of pots and baskets. The 60 "recipes" are great ideas for professional and home gardeners, but the information is aimed at the business side of containers. Plants suggested to be used are liners, and usually not the 4" or 6" pots most gardeners use. Plant and material costs listed in the book are wholesale, as is the suggested price to sell the completed container. The pictures are great, and the planting diagrams make it a snap to design and plant beautiful and creative pots, window boxes, and hanging baskets. If you're using this just for your home, you might be happier with Contain Yourself, the author's book on pots and baskets for the home gardener. If you're looking for more ideas or want to make money with container gardens, this is the book for you.
Rating:
Summary: A Great Production Book
Review: This book is written with commercial operations in mind--either retailers putting together container gardens or wholesalers managing production of pots and baskets. The 60 "recipes" are great ideas for professional and home gardeners, but the information is aimed at the business side of containers. Plants suggested to be used are liners, and usually not the 4" or 6" pots most gardeners use. Plant and material costs listed in the book are wholesale, as is the suggested price to sell the completed container. The pictures are great, and the planting diagrams make it a snap to design and plant beautiful and creative pots, window boxes, and hanging baskets. If you're using this just for your home, you might be happier with Contain Yourself, the author's book on pots and baskets for the home gardener. If you're looking for more ideas or want to make money with container gardens, this is the book for you.
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Summary: Fuzzy fotos....
Review: While THE EURO-AMERICAN CONTAINER GARDEN COOKBOOK may sound appealing to the average cook and gardener, this book is not what you might imagine. Instead of the home gardener like me growing a few pots of vegetables and herbs on the back patio, the target audience for this book is the commercial grower who is trying to sell her wares to thousands on Mother's Day. Although the book description relies on food metaphors such as "a dash of creativity" and "ingredients" and "recipes", nary an onion or carrot makes an appearance. Instead, the reader will find pages of diagrams showing one how to construct container planters, window boxes, and hanging baskets filled with annuals. This is petunia city with a few marigolds thrown in for sport.Although the average gardener is not about to become a merchandiser overnight, there are some interesting insights. For example, did you have a clue that the lovely hanging basket you bought your mom last May probably held less than ten dollars worth of plants although you paid $35 dollars for it? Depending on where you live the cost will be more or less. You might decide you want to create your own hanging baskets or window boxes after you discover the markup. If so, you can follow the diagrams offered in this book, or you could buy a really pretty book on container gardening such as Joyce Fingerhut's award winning (American Horticultural Society Book Award) CREATING AND PLANTING GARDEN TROUGHS, or if you are interested in growing food in containers check out the BOUNTIFUL CONTAINER by McGee and Stuckey.
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