Living in a crowded city need not mean uprooting one's connection with
the earth. City gardens are proliferating at a healthy rate, and plants
can be enjoyed on a rooftop, balcony, terrace, or a simple window sill.
There are, of course, special difficulties to gardening in cities:
special solutions are needed to solve these problems. Urban Gardening
was written to address these issues. It will interest first-timers to
try it for themselves, too.
The book is subtitled "a Hong Kong gardener's journal". If you live
outside of Hong Kong, do not let that put you off. Urban gardening
techniques are the same all over the world. Readers may discover some
well-loved plants they were familiar with back home, or wish to grow
their own Chinese vegetables. Pak choi, white radish (lo pak), kai lan,
and many others can be grown wherever in the world you find yourself--if
you know how. This book will help.