The document provides an overview of the contents and organization of a book about urban gardening. It summarizes the 10 chapters that will be covered, including preparing urban soil, suitable plants for urban gardens, places to garden like rooftops and containers, vertical gardening techniques, and growing food in urban spaces. It also provides brief biographies of the authors and their qualifications for writing about urban gardening.

1. Authors
Presentation
Of the first
Ten Chapters

2. About This Book
Author’s goal: To provide an A-Z guide for the urban gardener. Topics include
preparing urban soil conditions, how to plant, where you can plant, and the many
types of plantings suitable for urban gardens. And, of course urban edibles are
especially covered.
You will also learn some techniques from reducing air and water pollution, how
gardens may reduce crime, increase property values, and contribute to healthier,
improved neighborhoods.
From rooftops, balconies, patios, along walls and stairways, or growing indoors, the
authors cover many urban gardening techniques and trends to help get you started
right away!

3. Paul Simon
Education: University of Kentucky with degree in
Landscape Architecture from the
College of Agriculture, Food and
Environment
Employment: White + Burke
Real Estate Investment Advisors
The National Gardening Association
Portfolio: parkarchitecture.com

4. Charlie is a nationally recognized garden writer, speaker, radio, and television
personality. He has worked for more than 20 years bringing expert gardening
information to home gardeners through radio, television, talks, on-line, and the
printed page. He's authored four books including Urban Gardening for Dummies,
hosts In the Garden on WCAX-TV and the Vermont Garden Journal on VPR.
Well known as:
• Public speaker
• TV show host
• Radio show host
• Book author and free lance
• web and print writer
• Garden coach
charlienardozzi.com

5. Part I: Urban Gardening 101
An overview of urban gardening, from preparing healthy soil conditions, how to plant, where
you can plant and the many types of plantings suitable for urban gardens, especially edibles!
Part II: Gardening Basics
Here is where we really dig-into the book! From analyzing soil types, understanding soil pH,
drainage, poor and contaminated soil conditions.
Part III: Places and Ways to Garden
So where can you garden in the city? This part of the book provides many answers to this
question from the ground up! From changing a parking space into a mini-garden or how to
make an elevated rooftop garden with a view.
Part IV: Growing Plants in the City
Whether you’re gardening in a container on an apartment balcony or in the ground in a
community garden or your own backyard, you’ll need to know the basics of growing all your
favorites plants.
Part V: Growing to Perfection
Once all your gardens are planted and you’re happy with your choices, now the on-going
maintenance begins. In this section we’ll describe the best ways to weed your gardens and the
advantages of using various mulches to keep weeds at bay and retain soil moisture.
Part VI: Parts of Tens
From the top ten essential garden tools to ten kid-friendly ways to garden in the city, this
section provides an assortment of helpful and creative urban gardening solutions.
How the Book is organized

6. Chapter 1: Gardening in the City

7. Chapter 1: Gardening in the City
Vacant Lots
Lafayette Greens, Detroit Urban Garden designed by Kenneth Weikal Landscape Architecture
Promotes: Urban Agriculture, Community Gardening, Public Gathering, and Productive Urban Landscape
Finding Places to Garden in the City

8. Chapter 1: Gardening in the City
Grow it on the Roof Grow it in a Pot
Finding Places to Garden in the City

9. Chapter 1: Gardening in the City
Grow Creatively Creative Containers
Finding Places to Garden in the City

10. Chapter 1: Gardening in the City
Finding Places to Garden in the City – Front Yard Gardens
Grow Food, Not Lawns

11. Chapter 1: Gardening in the City
The National Gardening Association
Grow it Inside On the Balcony
Finding Places to Garden in the City
Paul Simon

12. Why Garden the City? - Chapter 2

13. Chapter 2: Reaping the Benefits of Urban Gardening
• Discover the value of growing food in the city
• Understanding how well-designed landscapes help reduce pollution
• Find out how urban gardens can help reduce energy use
• How gardens contribute to healthier, more valuable neighborhoods

14. Reduce Air & Water Pollution
Chapter 2: Reaping the Benefits of Urban Gardening

15. Reduce Noise
Chapter 2: Reaping the Benefits of Urban Gardening

16. Lower Winds
Chapter 2: Reaping the Benefits of Urban Gardening

17. Increase Urban Wildlife
Chapter 2: Reaping the Benefits of Urban Gardening

18. More Food Production
Chapter 2: Reaping the Benefits of Urban Gardening

19. Neighborhood Health
Chapter 2: Reaping the Benefits of Urban Gardening

20. Improving the Neighborhood
Chapter 2: Reaping the Benefits of Urban Gardening

21. Chapter 3: The Urban Microclimate
The Urban Heat Island Effect

22. Chapter 3: The Urban Microclimate
Summer Solar Path

23. Chapter 3: The Urban Microclimate
Winter Solar Path

24. Chapter 3: The Urban Microclimate
The Windy City: Working with Seasonal Urban Winds

25. Chapter 3: The Urban Microclimate
The Windy City: Knowing your Hardiness Zone

26. Growing to Help Reduce Energy Use
Chapter 3: The Urban Microclimate

27. Chapter 4: Getting to know your soil
Understanding
Soil Types
Figuring out
what you have
The Squeeze Test
The Ribbon Test
The Jar Test
Clay Soil
Sandy Soil
Silty Soil
Ribbon Test Jar Test

28. Urban Soils
Chapter 4: Getting to know your soil

29. Chapter 4: Getting to know your soil

30. Chapter 5: Feeding and Fertilizing your soil
Using Organic
Fertilizers
Why Fertilize?
The Advantage of Organics
Types of Organic Fertilizers
Plant-Based
Fertilizers
Animal-Based
Fertilizers
Blood Meal
Bonemeal
Fish Poducts
Animal Manures
Alfalfa Meal
Corn Gluten
Cottenseed Meal
Seaweed
Soyben Meal

31. Chapter 5: Feeding and Fertilizing your soil
Composting Composting with Worms

32. Chapter 6: Getting your Hands Dirty: Planting How-To
Planting Annual Flowers and Veggies
Flower Containers Flower Combos

33. Chapter 6: Getting your Hands Dirty: Planting How-To
Raised Bed Gardening

34. Chapter 6: Getting your Hands Dirty: Planting How-To
Seed-Starting and Growing your own Seedlings

35. Chapter 7: Creating an Outdoor Room
Extend your interior use of space into an outdoor room
Garden Dining Area – HGTV Outdoor The Green Room – by Landscape Architects Network

36. Chapter 7: Creating an Outdoor Room
Accenting your garden with special gateways

37. Chapter 7: Creating an Outdoor Room
Accenting your garden with special gateways

38. Chapter 7: Creating an Outdoor Room
Accenting your garden with unique plants

39. Chapter 7: Creating an Outdoor Room
Turning Recycled Materials into Garden Art

40. Chapter 7: Creating an Outdoor Room
Turning Recycled Materials into Garden Art
Thecollegegarden.tumblr.com

41. Chapter 7: Creating an Outdoor Room
Turning Recycled Materials into Garden Art

42. Chapter 7: Creating an Outdoor Room
Repurposed Pallets

43. Chapter 7: Creating an Outdoor Room
Adventure Gardening

44. Chapter 7: Creating an Outdoor Room
Adventure Gardening

45. Chapter 7: Creating an Outdoor Room
Adventure Gardening

46. Chapter 8: Containing Your Gardening
Surveying your container options

47. Elevated Planters
Chapter 8: Containing Your Gardening

48. Rolling Beds
Chapter 8: Containing Your Gardening

49. Grow Bags
Chapter 8: Containing Your Gardening

50. Upside Down
Chapter 8: Containing Your Gardening

51. Chapter 9: A Garden with a View: The Rooftop Garden
Rooftop Garden of Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco – The New York Times

52. Chapter 9: A Garden with a View: The Rooftop Garden
What’s the difference?
Green Roof vs Roof Garden

53. Chapter 9: A Garden with a View: The Rooftop Garden
Green Roof - Extensive Hybrid System
Roof Garden - Intensive

54. Chapter 10: Going Vertical in your Garden

55. Climbing Plants
Chapter 10: Going Vertical in your Garden

56. Green walls
Chapter 10: Going Vertical in your Garden

57. Edible Vertical Gardens
Chapter 10: Going Vertical in your Garden

58. Pocket Gardens
Chapter 10: Going Vertical in your Garden

59. Straddling Plant Container
Chapter 10: Going Vertical in your Garden
Balcony Planter

60. Picture Frame Gardening
Chapter 10: Going Vertical in your Garden

61. Pergola
Chapter 10: Going Vertical in your Garden
Garden Trellis
Garden Arbor

62. Plants as Art

63. Murals

64. Murals

65. Fish Tanks

66. Green Car

67. Green Barby

68. Containers Add Height

69. All One Flower

70. Multi-colored

71. Flower and Foliage

72. Foliage Color

73. Foliage Bank

74. Succulents

75. A Slew of Succulents

76. Succulents in a Table

77. Double Flower Pot

78. Trees in the City

79. Dwarf Trees?

80. Espalier

81. Top Urban Trees: Crape
Myrtle

82. Japanese Tree Lilac

83. American Hornbeam

84. Serviceberry

85. Service Berries

86. Dwarf Alberta Spruce

87. Food in the City

88. Keyhole Bed

89. Urban Raised Beds

90. On-Line Planner

91. Design your Own Garden

92. Your Kitchen Garden

93. Square Foot Garden

94. Succession Planting

95. Polyculture

96. Edibles in Containers

97. Trellis

98. Grapes in The Air

99. Container Tomatoes

100. Self Watering Container

101. Radiator Charlie's
Mortgage Lifter

102. Top Hat blueberry

103. Brown Turkey Fig

104. Alpine Strawberries

105. Pretty in Purple Hot Peppers

106. Thumbelina carrot

107. Terrenzo tomato

108. Fairy Tale Eggplant

109. Groundcherry

110. Blackberry

111. Edible Flowers

112. Beautiful Edibles

113. Transform Yard

114. Beautiful Urban Garden

115. Additional Resources - Chittenden Co.

116. Additional Resources

117. The End