Tomato Potato
garden
- January 4, 2009 • 8:15 pm PST
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Okay, so if you noticed our first post, we're going to start a garden in our asphalt backyard in downtown LA (see profile picture).
After a while of cruising around the internet today, I'm realizing we have a ton to learn (how to prepare soil and compost, moisture conservation techniques, what USDA plant hardiness zone we're in, how and when and where to plant which plants and with which other plants, etc.) While, i'm starting to wrap my head around the big issues, the online resources I'm finding for gardening are way more bleak than I expected-a lot of what's out there look like sites designed in 1998.
But, on the upside, here's what I've found so far that seems decently helpful:
- BackyardGardner.com's page of how-to links
- sacgardens.com - and specifically their basics on sustainable urban gardens
- Dave's Garden's Plant Files - claiming to be the world's largest plant database.
- A friend also showed me this book The Urban Homestead, written by the people who run the Homegrown Revolution blog. It looks super helpful and i intend to track that down shortly.
In the meantime, if anyone else has any favorite backyard gardening resources, online or offline, please share them here. We'll also add any other ones we happen to find, just to keep it all together in this thread.
After a while of cruising around the internet today, I'm realizing we have a ton to learn (how to prepare soil and compost, moisture conservation techniques, what USDA plant hardiness zone we're in, how and when and where to plant which plants and with which other plants, etc.) While, i'm starting to wrap my head around the big issues, the online resources I'm finding for gardening are way more bleak than I expected-a lot of what's out there look like sites designed in 1998.
But, on the upside, here's what I've found so far that seems decently helpful:
- BackyardGardner.com's page of how-to links
- sacgardens.com - and specifically their basics on sustainable urban gardens
- Dave's Garden's Plant Files - claiming to be the world's largest plant database.
- A friend also showed me this book The Urban Homestead, written by the people who run the Homegrown Revolution blog. It looks super helpful and i intend to track that down shortly.
In the meantime, if anyone else has any favorite backyard gardening resources, online or offline, please share them here. We'll also add any other ones we happen to find, just to keep it all together in this thread.
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