Helping your garden grow. Almost anywhere.

OK, so you're a gardener or thinking about becoming one.  Now that the weather is finally warming up, you can't wait to get out into your garden.  Except that you may or may not actually have ground to cultivate.  And/or very little sun.  Not a problem.  There are ways around this seemingly insurmountable challenge.  Are these beans great or what?  Martin and Melanie's crop/see below. 

Years ago, my gardening instructor recommended growing tomatoes in gutters. As in the ones attached to your roof.  Since we don't get much rain during the summer months in California, this seemed like a plausible, if not Totally Entertaining, idea.  Dangling tomatoes. So easy to harvest.  Absolutely no doubt about when to clean the gutters before winter rains arrived.  I liked parts of this idea a lot.  Not surprisingly, Dave wasn’t keen on the concept at all.  I love that about him.

You can imagine my delight in discovering that our NYC friends, Martin and Melanie, had come close to my original vision: Creating a roof top garden just outside their second-floor studio.  The first two pictures were taken during winter/not exactly the height of production.  Still, I think it demonstrates just how resourceful one can be with little or no obvious ground to cultivate.

  

Here's how successful Gardening in Small Soil Spaces worked for M and M the following summer:

Very well!  Yummmmm/Great cook that you are, I can only imagine what you whipped up for dinner that night.  Do you share recipes?  Good.

Monday I want to tell you about taking your garden for a walk.  If you have kids/grandchildren/any child at heart in your life, I promise that you're going to enjoy this novel FP concept. 

So, get out there/go shopping for seeds and seedlings to plant in the ground, in pots, in window boxes or in Monday's ingenious idea.