Design and Plan Your Vertical Allotment

Guide to setting up your own edible rooftop garden – a free, practical guide to creating your own urban growing space, published by the Rooftop Garden Project in Montreal. Includes how to make containers with water reservoirs, how to build an ingenious self watering system, and how to link water butts together. Highly recommended.

What depth of container do you need for each vegetable and herb? This invaluable guide tells you. Published by RISC of Reading, it’s based on Michael Guerra’s excellent book – see books.

Creative ideas to maximise growing space from Sri Lanka, collected by Dr Thilak T. Ranasinghe.

A guide to container gardens: a short guide with some different ideas.

More creative ideas from the Urban Organic Gardener.

What and How to grow

Garden Organic’s website is a treasure trove  for the organic gardener. It includes handy – and free to download – growing info cards, and organic growing guidelines. Members can also access other useful factsheets on disease control, composting etc.

Tips from VerticalVeg on what to grow in a small space here.

Ideas for varieties to use in small spaces from About.com

The moon’s impact on food growing has been know about for centuries. This Guide for planting by the moon tells you when it’s a good time to sow and when to harvest.

Seed and plant suppliers

The Real Seed Catalogue offer a superb selection for the home grower – and no hybrids so you can save your own seed.

Poyntzfield Herb Nursery supplies over 400 different herbs, grown organically in Scotland, hardy enough to grow almost anywhere in the UK.

Useful Products

Slug repellant tape: Slugs get a small electric shock when they try to cross copper – many gardeners reports that it really works. Put the tape round the top of containers.