Container gardening is for people who like to organise things. The main rule of container gardening is to have lots of containers and move them about a lot. In a small city garden with limited exposure using containers enables the gardener to move plants around within the garden as they grow. Container gardening is labour …Read More about Container gardening
Archives for July 2016
Salad in boxes
Salad crops do not like summer heat. Trying to start salad in the summer is difficult. Fortunately, with poor weather summers, with weeks of rain and overcast skies, the gardener can use the grey days and the shaded spots of the city garden to start salad most the year. Experimenting is everything. It is worth …Read More about Salad in boxes
Parsley
Parsley can be grown in soil or in containers. Notoriously difficult to grow from seed the plants, once established, provide an excellent addition to cooked and salad dishes. Two plants in the garden will provide for a household throughout the summer and into the fall. Parsley is divided into two main types, curly and flat …Read More about Parsley
Raised bed progress
People often think of a raised bed as a soil bed a foot or so off the ground. It is that and more. By fixing a frame over the bed gardeners can experiment with permaculture systems of growing on several levels with the top level of netting 2 metres above the soil bed. In this …Read More about Raised bed progress
Basement progress
A basement corridor can seem an unlikely place to grow vegetables but with the combination of extra shading from extreme heat and protection from heavy rain, it can prove quite a successful location for an inner city garden. Maximising the use of floor space without obstructing access is the obvious challenge. By changing from large …Read More about Basement progress
Stairway garden
City gardening is about growing plants on walls, paths and stairways. Besides flat roofs and regular gardens, walls are abundant in cities. Making use of these vertical spaces enables even the smallest city garden to produce a good range of vegetables. Access is the key issue in stairway planting. With stair width of 90cm, using …Read More about Stairway garden