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Permalink Reply by Cassandra Ward Geoghegan on March 18, 2011 at 8:35am

Hi Luis,

I'm new to City Life and to the Urban Gardening Group. I'm very excited to be a part of this group, because I'm hoping that it will keep me invested in my starter garden that I planted from seeds into beginner pots last week. Usually what I do is put a few things into the ground late into Spring, as an after-thought, and then forget about tending to them. Then they usually become snail food. I don't have any ground ready yet, but will be making a garden box within the next couple weeks, in preparation for when my babies get big enough to be transplanted. I would appreciate any suggestions or creative ideas for planting; we have a large backyard, but three-quarters of it is hard-scaped, and then we have a grassy patch, with some flower-beds around the perimeter of the entire backyard. I plan to clear the insidious Canna flowers from the sunniest flower-bed to make way for my gardening space.

I've planted: French Thyme; Italian Kale; Black Beauty Eggplant; Peas; Parsley; Radishes; Basil; Gourmet Cat Greens; Alpine Strawberries; Bright Lights Chard; and Baby Belles. I have a few other seed packets (forgot which ones they are, one is the round cucumber) that I will place directly into the ground once I have my garden box.

I also will probably have an abundance of some of the above-mentioned plants and would be happy to swap.  

Permalink Reply by Luis Tobon on March 18, 2011 at 10:22am

It's great to see others gardening in the city. I have the blog posts here on CityLife and I have my own gardening blog where I post all about my garden and some tips. You can see the feed on the main page of this group or go HERE. How big will the garden box be? You will probably be able to grow multiple plants depending on the size.

 

Don't worry about having too many seed packets. I've got some that I haven't even opened yet and may not have any room for but they should keep for a while.

 

The first tip I have for you is to email Roots Gourmet and get some free compost. You can find that info HERE. 

 

Luis

Permalink Reply by Cassandra Ward Geoghegan on March 18, 2011 at 4:00pm

The box will be about a 6x3. Not sure if that will be big enough for everything. My friend said I could also plant some stuff in her front yard, which gets plenty of sunshine. Thankfully, she's just around the corner from me.

Thanks for the referral to Roots Gourmet; I will definitely try to get some compost.

Permalink Reply by Luis Tobon on March 18, 2011 at 11:46pm

I have 3 beds that are 3x3. Each box will probably have 2-3 tomato plants each along with peppers and eggplants. You can never have too much room for planting. You will just find more plants to go into it.

Permalink Reply by Lisa on May 10, 2011 at 11:35am

I've begun blogging about my raised bed garden.  The most unique thing I am growing are potatoes in towers.  The blog is here.

Permalink Reply by Luis Tobon on May 10, 2011 at 9:17pm

Cool! Great to see more people growing their own food. I am not subscribed to your blog.

Permalink Reply by The Man on May 10, 2011 at 10:08pm

I think I'm going to start growing some stuff aside from what I already had in my backyard: grape fruit, pomegranate, and tangerines...

 

I wanna grow some grapes! 

Permalink Reply by Luis Tobon on May 10, 2011 at 10:15pm

Good. Gotta get some sort of trellis or something for it to climb on.

Permalink Reply by Ofelia R. on July 12, 2011 at 12:42am

Hi Luis 

 can you share some tomatoes I like to make a pie and my tomatoes still growing and not sure if any tomatoes are big  beef steack which is a large tomato perfect for pie  

let me know I can share some cactus form my garden

 

Ofelia