A Small Edible Garden

Finally, a Dutch book about what permaculture aims for: working with nature, even on a small scale, in your own garden. This exceptionally informative book was nominated for the Jan Wolkers Award 2016!
The slogan is: vegetable garden and ornamental garden in one... Enjoying delicious fruit, vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers from your 'own soil' is possible even with a SMALL garden or balcony. This book offers plenty of inspiration for the design, construction, and maintenance of a small edible garden with perennial plants. And all this without much work and maintenance. The many practical tips, achievable examples, and designs will help you on your way!

Fragrant, colourful & tasteful gardens
'A small edible garden' offers a fresh perspective on garden design and provides 10 detailed designs with accompanying plant lists.

• Creating an edible ornamental garden on the balcony, in containers, and in the open ground
• With perennial plants (sun plants, shade plants, tall, short, permanent, pot)
• Inspiring tips for garden layout and garden design
• Optimal use of sunlight and rainwater
• Perennial, hardy, self-seeding plants, meaning low maintenance
• Sowing, cuttings, propagation, division
• Tools, hard materials, supports for climbing plants
• Attracting and repelling animals and insects, composting
• Tips for harvesting, storing, and processing
• With a separate plant list as a selection guide: more than 200 types of edible perennial plants (with information on soil type, growth habit, and culinary use, among other things)