Container Gardening
A Guide to Selected Resources

Science Reference Section
Science, Technology, and Business Division
Library of Congress

Jump to: SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES

SELECTED BOOKS ON CONTAINER GARDENING

Gardening in containers: creative ideas from America’s best gardeners. Newtown, CT, Taunton Press, distributed by Publishers Group West, c2002. 170 p.
   SB418.G377 2002 <SciRR>

Guerra, Michael. The edible container garden: growing fresh food in small spaces. New York, Simon & Schuster, c2000. 159 p.
   Includes bibliograpical references.
   SB324.4.G84 2000 <SciRR>

Joyce, David. The complete container garden. Pleasantville, NY, Reader’s Digest, 2003. 216 p.
   SB418.J685 2003

McCreary, Rosemary. Container gardens: simple steps to beautiful potted plants. Alexandria, VA, Time-Life Books, 2000. 143 p
   SB418.M29 2000

McGee & Stuckey’s the bountiful container: a container garden of vegetables, herbs, fruits and edible flowers. New York, Workman Pub., c2002. 432 p.
   SB518.M32 2002

Ouellet, Kerstin P. Contain yourself: 101 fresh ideas for fantastic container gardens. Batavia, IL, Ball Pub., c2003. 299 p.
   SB418.O93 2003

Stevens, David, and Jerry Harpur. Roof gardens, balconies and terraces. New York, Rizzoli, 1997. 160 p.
   SB419.5.H37 1997

Swindells, Phillip. Container water gardens. Hauppauge, NY, Barron’s Educational Series, 2001. 64 p.
   SB423.S923 2001

Taylor’s guide to container gardening. Edited by Roger Holmes. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 453 p.
   SB418.T39 1995

Webster, Vicki. Container gardening. 6th ed. Menlo Park, CA, Sunset Pub., c2004. 128 p.
   Includes bibliographical references.
   SB413.R47 R35 2004

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SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES

Container Gardening with Children, from Food and Nutrition Service, USDA
http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Parents/gardening.html

Container Gardening for Wildlife, from the National Wildlife Federation
http://www.nwf.org/backyardwildlifehabitat/container.cfm

Container Gardens, from Texas A&M University
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/floriculture/container-garden/lesson/index.html

Container Vegetable Gardening, from Arizona Cooperative Extension
http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/mg/vegetable/container.html

Container Vegetable Gardening, from Virginia Cooperative Extension
http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/envirohort/articles/vegetables/contgrdn.html

Gardening in Raised Beds and Containers for Older Gardeners and Individuals With Physical Disabilities, by Diane Relf, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
http://www.hort.vt.edu/human/pub426020d.html

Guide to Container Gardening, from GardenGuides.com
http://www.gardenguides.com/TipsandTechniques/container.htm

Eifen tuin & auto, creative gardens from Holland
http://www.autotuin.nl/cargarden.html

No Ground? Use Containers, from Journey to Forever
http://journeytoforever.org/garden_con.html

Drought-resistant Plants for Pots, from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/design/handbooks/potted/drought.html

Vegetable Gardening in Containers, from the Agriculture Program of Texas A&M
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/container/container.htm

Compiled by Alison P. Kelly, May, 2004