This book gives great information about how to start growing edible plants in containers. It covers how to grow plants completely indoors as well as how to start projects indoors and then move outside.

There are a bunch of very creative and cute projects detailed here. Most of the information is on how to build or adapt the containers to grow plants. Bicycle baskets, muffin tins, PVC pipes, and gutters are among the containers repurposed for growing food. I didn’t really need that information. I got the most use out of the sidebars in the book. This is where advice is given for different varieties of edible plants that grow well indoors and in small spaces.

The photographs are beautiful. The whole book is inspiring in a way that only gardening books can be in the dead of winter. I’m looking forward to finding some of the plant varieties mentioned and starting my indoor garden.

Well, this book didn't succeed in making me feel like becoming a full-on grower of my own micro-foods, but I would strongly suggest if you have that inclination and are looking for the last step of impetus, it's on these pages, and it certainly did show me how some of it could be easy – although it certainly took its time about it. We start with the basics, of the whys and wherefores, and thoughts to organic fertiliser, soil, growing and watering techniques, and of course positioning in or out of the sun. We then crack on with the projects, that will get us eating our own herbs, mini-greens, fingerling potatoes and so much more in no time. And that's where things went if not pear-shaped then perhaps strawberries-grown-in-guttering-shaped, for the second project involved drilling this and safety that and so much else I will never get the aptitude to use. Before long we're making drainage holes in aluminium gutter pieces, coffee tins and unwanted cake pans, getting specific glass- or ceramic-friendly drill bits, and so much else.

Like I say, not for me. But I'd have had to have been starved of all food and most of my oxygen to not recognise the quality of this production. The pictures are brilliant, the advice is perfectly readable and sound, the mixture of DIY and botany spot on – to repeat, this is probably up there with the very best books in this category (if there are indeed other options out there). And you know what – finally we do even get inspiration for the likes of muggins here. And if 'everything you need to make your own pasta tomato sauce or veggie pizza topping in the one container' is not inspiration, I don't know what is. So I can certainly quibble at this not exactly guiding the newbie into easy projects with baby steps, and leaving the more daunting stuff til last, but that's the only flaw I found.

I love this book! It is refreshing, useful, and inspiring. The 30 craft projects are clearly explained, and the pictures help to understand what is going on. I will try a few this spring, let’s see how it goes. Nothing seemed to hard to do. Gardening is such a great hobby, and the possibilities are endless, which this book shows. I have a hard time imagining these things in my head, so I’m very thankful to get clear instructions on how to do these things.

A very compact book with lots of pictures to visualize the ideas for the micro planters. This is a perfect book for anyone new to planting greenery and keeping it alive. Lots of good ideas and how to build your own small garden in a confined space.

For me, as a plant parent, all the basics about light, soil and watering were unnecessary but for the proper beginners this might be useful to know.
Really enjoyed getting inspiration from these many ideas. Will definitely plant some of the herbs and spices on my balcony this year.

Ugg, some books do annoy me! What would you expect from a book called “Microfood Gardening”? A lesson on macramee? How to build a wormery? Riveting statements like “watering is important” or that you can grow plants in a tea cup? I got all of the above.
I was hoping for some in-depth information of different growing options like sprouting, hydroponics, cell culture. Instead I got 100-plus pages of container DIY plus the message: buy seeds, stick in soil, water, wait. Where there is a small paragraph on sprouting, it contains the alarming statement that you have to immerse the seeds and container in bleach (!) and hydrogen peroxide(!) before sprouting. More concern when there are images of a person drilling a hole in a glass jar without protective gloves.
All in all, a higgeldy-piggeldy collection of stuff with pretty pictures. Likes to drill!