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Instant Survey: Gardening

by on 09.19.05
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Whether your growing fresh vegetables in the city, using the urbanized, SquareFootGardening (SFG) Grid to harvests fruits, or growing a rooftop garden for herbs, many Treehuggers know the value and joy of cultivating their own garden. We're curious to know how many of us out there are growing their own! If you're not already growing a garden but are looking to get started, make sure to check out You Grow Girl or Garden Wise for some helpful hints to help you get started! As always, comments are welcome below.

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This year we grew tomatoes and some spices, but we'll probably extend it to other vegetables next year.

jump to top MGR [TypeKey Profile Page] says:

I guess this is a good place to plug:

www.growingyourownfood.com

I'm not affiliated with it, but I've discussed by email with Frank G., the guy behind that site. I think he's doing a good job of documenting his projects and his "turning vegetarian and loving it" experience.

jump to top MGR [TypeKey Profile Page] says:

If you don't have your own plot to garden, check out this article about guerilla gardening.

What is guerilla gardening exactly? Many participants consider it to be the act of taking over small, vacant or abandoned plots of land in one's neighborhood and sowing anything from flower seeds to miniature tomato plants. Since the majority of these parking lot parcels, alley edges, planters, and urban plots are often uncultivated and overgrown with weeds, a number of socially-motivated gardeners and community members are secretly using these areas to grow attractive flowers or much needed food for neighboring residents.
jump to top mattie [TypeKey Profile Page] says:

Despite only moving into my new house early summer, I still managed to grow tomatoes and runner-beans. Unfortunately my attempts to grow carrots and cauliflowers were foiled by the neighbours' cats, which decided that the freshly-sown soil would be great for digging in.
Still, I'm now enjoying a rather late crop of organic tomatoes and runner-beans. I've not grown enough to significantly affect the amount of shop-food I buy, but they certainly taste nice, and there's an absurd joy in popping out to the garden for fresh veg.

jump to top sheepdan [TypeKey Profile Page] says:

got space & sun but only grow sprouts (& herbs that I don't eat) cos there's loads of polluting traffic & construction around - don't wanna eat emissions. Have heard other stories fo people growing food in their city plots then getting soil tested & it's very toxic.

Anyone got any tips how to grow low-pollutant foods in high-traffic high-everything-nasty urban areas? a double-door hermetically sealed chamber perhaps?

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