Window farm « Cranberry Compost & Gardening Blog. More Fun Garden Projects June 13, 2011.
Research and Develop It Yourself. Top 10 Best DIY Garden Ideas. By Magda Knight Indoor plant art.
Urban and guerilla gardening. Upcycling plant containers. Moss graffiti, seed bombs and more... These 10 great DIY garden ideas approach greenery as life and art. 1. Grow Your Own - ALLOTINABOX® Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment. 40 Inspiring DIY Herb Gardens. If you love to cook you most likely can’t live without fresh herbs.
You can buy them when you need them but it would be much better if you will always have them in pots near by. Geek Gardening: A Wired Guide to Domestic Terraforming. Gardeners are among the world’s most charming snobs.
Rightly so: As with music and mathematics, the more you know, the more elegant your work. Erudition is valued, and so is a smattering of pretension. Domestic terraforming. Truck Farm Movie Review. Urban gardening. Flickr Find: Container Garden in Reclaimed Drawers. By Becky Striepe on December 16, 2010 We love us some small space gardening around here, and making use of vertical space is a great way to plant a greater bounty in a smaller area. So of course, I just loved this awesome, recycled solution that I ran across while clicking around on Flickr the other day. Sure, mid-December might seem like an odd time to think about gardening, but this struck me as something that might be just right for growing late fall and winter veggies. If you built the frame on casters, you could roll the whole thing inside on nights that you're expecting a freeze. Alejandro's Rooftop Oasis My Great Outdoors.
Exaco_rail_blanters.jpg (360×360) Home. Tiny Gardens: The Terrific Stoops, Roofs and Bitty Front Lawns of Brooklyn. Last August, Jill Harrison bought a house on a very manicured block of Crown Heights.
She hasn’t had to leave her property to meet the neighbors. The time she spends on her front lawn, installing native plants, herbs and sedum, brings neighborhood kids wanting “to pick something” and nods of approval from old-timers headed to the nearby Baptist church or West Indian restaurant. Most impressive to passers-by: her stoop, where, in more than 17 pots and containers, she’s growing wild strawberries, Portuguese peppers, a blueberry bush, lemon verbena and cucumbers—basically, she said, “things we can eat or put in our drinks.” “It’s an easy conversation starter,” she said of her garden. “You don’t have to make up something to talk about. “Now it’s like the kitchen table where everyone congregates,” said Powell. Over in South Slope, Michiko Okochi, who also has an eye-catching street garden, though hers is next to the expressway, validates these sentiments.
On City Rooftops, Scrappy Green Spaces in Bloom. Planterworx_fab.jpg (360×360) Brooklyn Farm. Which Plastics Are Safe to Use as Containers to Grow Food? Vertical Gardening. m5dvlk04IH1qzvfa5o1_500.png (500×667) Vertical Garden Patrick Blanc. Cultivation indoors and outdoors using hydroponics and organics. Vertical Gardens Permaculture Courses. By Frank Gapinski Making use of vertical wall space located in a sunny spot is a great way to grow your garden.
In fact you don’t need pumps or complicated equipment to start growing your own vegetable garden. As long as you have a consistent amount of sunshine of around 6 hours per day and a collection of plastic drink containers and some ingenuity you can create a mini vegetable garden and have it self-water the system. Consider this novel approach to harnessing gravity to feed your garden.
Five reasons for vertical gardening. Plants have certain requirements of their own such as sunlight, nutrients and support.
So, while planting pots and plants, all this have to be taken care of. Vertical gardening is a kind of trend that first started up in large cities where yard space is very little. DIY shoe rack hanging garden. Deck Ideas. Gardens - Vertical. Inside Peek at O’Hare Airport’s Vertical Farm. January 23, 2012 by Robin Plaskoff Horton Photo: Future Growing After traveling a lot for the majority of my career, airport delays are usually not something I get excited about.
However, a recent (cancelled) trip from Columbus, Ohio to my home in Chicago (and a resulting wait for delayed luggage) gave me the opportunity to visit the new urban garden in O’Hare Airport. Photo: LaManda Joy Set in a seemingly unused nook of the G Terminal, a mezzanine space has been transformed into a high-tech urban garden. Photo: Future Growing The genius behind the O’Hare installation is Future Growing LLC, the same company responsible for the amazing rooftop garden that fuels the kitchens of New York City restaurant, Bell, Book and Candle, where I dined on a recent visit to that city. GreenDesert. Gardening is fun but space can be an issue when living in the city.
Vertical gardening is the perfect solution. Take the idea of skyscrapers being built to utilize more space and apply that same idea to your garden. Growing vertically can be done using hydroponics or with traditional soil. Below are just a few ideas among many to utilize for growing vertically. These vertical hydroponic food-growing gardens have a pump that is hooked up to a timer. Green beans, lettuce, basil, peppers and many other vegetables thrive in the hydroponics system. Hydroponics basically means working water ("hydro" means "water" and "ponos" means "labor"). Vertical gardens are the perfect solution when space is limited. Our.windowfarms.org.
Simple Container & Urban Gardening Tips to Grow Your Own Food.