Archive for Urban Agriculture
White House Garden Layout
Check out the awesome resource I stumbled onto today: a blueprint of the White House vegetable garden on a subpage of www.whitehouse.gov.
(Is it vain that I really covet Michelle Obama’s Wellingtons?)
Umm… where’s the green?
Cherry Tomato Endeavor 1.0 hasn’t really worked out. I thought sunlight would be the issue, but it turns out burying the seeds deeper than their own width turns them into fertilizer instead of sprouts.
Success on the first try would have been to easy anyway. My mom thinks I can dig the rotting seeds out and use the same soil to replant. Not sure if that falls under reduce, reuse, recycle or all of the above.
It Starts!
It starts with cherry tomatoes!
Yesterday I got a package from my mom in Iowa. Inside were a package of cherry tomato seeds, a tray of Jiffy dehydrated soil pellets, and a note:
I couldn’t resist getting you started on some cherry tomatoes. There’s way more here than you can use in containers, but you can give some away to coworkers to plant in their own container gardens. Spread the love!
Enjoy the little greenhouse. It’s fun being partners with God!
We’re moving to a more economical (and better sunlit) apartment in two weeks, and if I were smart I would have waited until then to start–but I didn’t.
I think I may have overwatered initially, and now I’m relegated to constantly moving the little greenhouse from a single, momentary patch of sunlight in our living room, to a corner of sidewalk, to the hood of my car…
But that’s OK. The basic thrust of R.J. Ruppenthal’s “square-inch gardening” theory is to work with what you’ve got. So here goes!
First White House Garden Since WWII
According to BusinessWorld Online, Michelle Obama’s vegetable garden on the White House lawn will be the first such since Eleanor Roosevelt’s WWII Victory Garden.
SidewalkSprouts has a great article on the original, as well as a lot of other fantastic material on urban agriculture and its beginnings.
