- Interested in growing things upside down? Mr. Brown Thumb has got a homemade, upcycled version for you to check out.
- Who knows what goes on in your garden when you’re not there? Well, Gayla of You Grow Girl does! Check out her time lapse video of her garden.
- Grow what you can, where you can. Leda does, and she recommends herbs for tight spaces.
- Solar lighting is a smart bet for balcony gardens. Oftentimes we don’t have acces to an outlet. Check out Andrea’s interview about the solar options out there.
- Love the modern, metal, vertical planters featured on Urban Gardens.
Patchwork Festival
I’ll be hanging out at the Patchwork Festival in Long Beach this Sunday, and giving a tomato growing demonstration at Adriana’s Anarchy in the Garden booth. I hope you’ll check out the festival and come say hi!
Container Gardening In The News
- The Kansas City Star is all over DIY mason bee houses.
- Lots of useful tips in this article about making the most of small gardens in The Seattle Times
- I also appreciated their article on frugal gardening tips.
- I love how gardening brings people together. Like n this article in the Wall Street Journal about a tomato growing mentor who met her understudy through an honest mistake.
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Love this post, love that grab bag! Are you going to be a GWA Symposium in September?
Urban Gardens–I will there, I am really looking forward to the conference! Will you be going too?
Nice grab bag this week! Of course, I’ve got vertical gardens on the brain. Rebecca and I photographed an amazing garden in San Francisco this morning. Not a balcony but a small, shared courtyard with only a foot of planting space around the edge of the concrete. The gardener whose claimed it has come up with all sorts of recycled DIY ways to grow more edibles and ornamentals in her limited space.
Now all I have to do is figure out how to download the photos from my new camera!
Thanks for the link, Fern!
i like the vertical planters. nice links, fern- thanks!
Wow that time lapse was fun
A little too quick to really see the pollinators though…. but interesting.
Sorry I arrived too late to see you at the Patchwork! But it was cool to meet Adriana!
And thanks for the metal vertical container link!… makes me want to scheme up a wooden version…
Oh darn! Sorry I missed you Mary!