Creative Options for Urban Gardening
For gardeners it is great to have a large yard space in which to grow lovely blooms and healthful herbs and vegetables. Lack of a yard though doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy some of the same pleasure and benefit. With a little ingenuity city dwellers can grow great plants and urban gardening can become a reality.
Creative Options
No matter how tiny your available space, there is a way for you to grow pretty flowers, lush plants or delicious foods. What you need are some creative ways to make the most of the space and sunshine that you do have. So here are a few ideas:
1. Hanging Gardens
Hanging baskets make beautiful displays of riotous floral blossoms, but they can also be put to work as a home for herbs or tender greens. A hanging basket loaded with moss is the perfect place to thread in tiny lettuce seedlings. With regular watering, your basket can become a lettuce salad bar. Plastic soda pop bottles can be hung upside down to house many kinds of trailing vegetables.
2. Potting Around
On a small concrete slab, a narrow balcony or even the fire escape pots can provide the ideal environment for growing garden plants or herbs. Tomato plants are a given in larger pots. But smaller pots can work well to grow kitchen herbs. Basil, cilantro, parsley, summer savory, thyme or rosemary will produce tasty leaves all season long. Mint and dill also do well in pots, but since they tend to take over, they do best living alone. If you want some leaves for home-brewed tea, why not try growing lemon balm, chamomile or peppermint.
3. Window Gardens
Another trick of urban gardening is to reclaim every space – even window boxes. Herbs, lettuces and flowers can all thrive in this sunny spot where you can easily take care of watering. Since some flowers (squash blossoms, nasturtiums, lavender) can be eaten you can enjoy color and good food in your limited space.
The Tools of Urban Gardening
As you can see space isn’t a huge requirement when it comes to gardening ‘in town’. A bit of creative use of the space that is available, water and quality plant markers are really all that you need to enjoy health, pleasure and beauty. At Kincaid Plant Markers we can offer you name plates that will make every growing space a serious endeavor. Best of all, they’ll look great this year, next year and years after that. Choose a way to make your own urban garden a reality and then choose the plant markers to make it professional.
