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An Update on our Urban Fence Garden

Posted in Urban Gardening on July 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Our fence garden is starting to produce plate-ready results.  If you remember its humble beginnings, we thought you might like to see how it`s coming along: The first few tomatoes have ripened (the smallest of course) and hot peppers are appearing daily.  The herbs are in full glory. I didn`t get the potatoes in on [...]

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Update on the Fence Garden

Posted in Urban Gardening on June 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The garden is starting to come together after a small dose of humble pie.  This is my second year working with (or trying to) seeds and growing from scratch.  Our apartment has lots of ambient light but no real space for seed trays that lends itself naturally to the task.  I did learn some good [...]

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Trash Can Potatoes and Fence Pots (our Urban Garden)

Posted in Urban Gardening on May 14, 2011 | 5 Comments »

We had a lot of questions about our garden so I thought I’d share a bit more detail in the hopes it might help inspire others to give it a shot.  We are very novice at this but really excited and thankful for the encouragement of everyone here! For those who missed the humble beginnings [...]

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How to Make a Raised Bed Garden from a Skid (Pallet)

Posted in Urban Gardening on May 13, 2011 | 5 Comments »

When looking to garden in small spaces, you need to know Fern of Life on the Balcony.  She has a great blog – and an amazing garden on her 50-square foot balcony in California. She had recently published an article on how to create a garden from a pallet (re-nest also posted an interesting vertical [...]

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An Urban Garden in my Parking Space…

Posted in Urban Gardening on May 12, 2011 | 24 Comments »

We`re novice gardeners.  We`ve had some success in the last few years and we`re hoping to grow more this year – but we don`t have a lot of space. Last years garden consisted of two small raised beds of tomatoes on the patio of the coffee shop we live above, a single cucumber plant in [...]

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Urban Gardening in Brooklyn, New York

Posted in Urban Gardening on April 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »

This post is less about New York than it is about some of the urban “gardens” we found.  All were accessible from the street and there were more than we’re sharing here. The gardens ranged from large pots to 90-gallon potato drums, decorated tires and complex shelf-like systems (all pictured below).  I love the ingenuity [...]

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Guerrilla Gardening

Posted in Urban Gardening on February 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Imagine an independent army of citizens who hide in plain sight with a single mission: to add beauty to their towns and cities. Guerrilla Gardening has been around for many years (it’s roots go back to the 1970′s) though it’s picked up steam with the progress of the Internet and the ability for people to [...]

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New roommate.

Posted in Urban Gardening, tagged , , , , on July 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

We were at the farmer’s market at the Brickworks on Saturday, left with armloads of garlic scapes…and a whole lot of delicious farm fresh goodness. I picked up a bunch of Basil at the Sosnicki Organic farm table and it still had the roots on. We spoke with Jessie Sosnicki for a while, mainly about [...]

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