Welcome guest poster, Thomas Fox, author of Urban Farming: Sustainable City Living in Your Backyard, in Your Community, and in the World When people hear that I’ve written a book on urban farming, they almost invariably ask “Oh, you mean like rooftop gardens?” And yes, I do mean them. New York City alone boasts an estimated [...]
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Do any of you remember Blue’s Clues, when the mail came? Steve, the main actor would yell out “mail time.” Well, gardening has the same excitement. And you know it is “gardening time” when the trucks dump in my driveway. Just in case you don’t remember the Blue Clue’s mail time song, watch the below [...]
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This is my fifth season of growing my own food, and believe me, it never gets old. Once you taste a ripe tomato from the vine, you never go back. I grow everything from seed. Believe me, it is not intimidating at all. In fact, it is down right fun especially for your [...]
Okay. If you are like me, you are onto Gardening, Round Two. That is…Fall gardening! And what a great time to grab some gardening gear at Gardener’s Supply’s end of season sale. Fall Gardening. Join the Ranks! Us northern gardeners eek out as much gardening as we can until Old Man Frost just takes away our summer [...]
Calling all gardeners! Gardener’s Supply Company is having their summer sale! This is the time to stock up, Geeps. (Short for gardening people. Do you think it will catch on?) Many of my loyal readers know that I absolutely love Gardener’s Supply. In the Spring, I listed my favorites from Gardener’s Supply and gushed above how [...]
Have you dreamed of owning your own raised beds for growing your vegetables? Shied away because you are tool challenged or just don’t have the know how? Or when would you find the time? Over the last three years, I have used raised beds and have found that my vegetables grow better in them versus [...]
Do you know what time it is? Check your calendar, Green Talk readers. It is gardening time! Get your hoes and let’s dig some dirt. Make Mama proud with your finest tomatoes or mouth watering cucumbers. (Remember mine look like tennis balls with an eight o’clock shadow. Made you look, didn’t I?) When I received [...]
Spring is here and I am giddy about the prospects of growing my garden again. Each year is different from the last one with new plants to grow. Some have even come back since I forgot about them from last year. See my turnip left in the dirt since last Fall? And if you are [...]
Whenever I see anything in twitter about gardening, it is an instant click. P. Allen Smith, gardener extraordinare of the P. Allen Garden Home tweeted about the above vertical wall grid offered by CB2.
