Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Urban Vegetable Garden

When life gives you concrete and you want to garden, improvise. Living in an apartment building in the city can be challenging for a would-be gardener, but I was born to challenge life. Walking out the backdoor of my building, you step onto the roof of our underground garage, which provided me with the perfect platform for a container garden.

I bought my vegetable and herb plants at the Coit Road Farmers Market, so with high hopes and found and bought containers I was ready to plant.

Early Morning June 1st

Good organic soil, organic plant food and blessed with good rains the garden is thriving. I planted Big Bertha peppers, Mortgage Lifter heirloom tomatoes, Sweet Baby Girl cherry tomatoes, oregano, thyme, basil and parsley. Notice the oregano in the right hand corner, that was one little sprig when I planted it.

One month later ...

There was one small incident with a renegade neighborhood rabbit, who mistakenly thought I planted my parsley for his enjoyment, even though he ate it down to the nub there is new growth. Wonder if he has ever heard of rabbit stew?

Basil tucked in with the tomatoes ...

Look close, see the little bitty tomato?








19 comments:

Lucy said...

Well would you look at that!!! Congrat's Momma.... I see you have a baby there!!

OhioMom said...

Yes, I am just so proud, I think I will call her "sauce" :)

PGL said...

The veggies have shot up like rockets mom. I guess all that rain really helped. rabbit stew huh? lol

OhioMom said...

Rabbit stew with red-eye gravy, yummmmy! LOL !

Paula said...

Your garden is delightful! The rabbit stew made me laugh ... daring little beast wasn't he?!

shambo said...

What a great idea! Good luck with all your growing. Looks like you'll have a bountiful harvest.

OhioMom said...

Hi Paula ... yes he was, and since we live on a hill the next door neighbors back yard is actually level to our garage roof, so there is no climbing involved for the city critters. I wonder if he will share some of my parsley with me ?

Hey Sue

Me too :) I really was set on the maters and basil, but if it does well I will expand next year.

giz said...

I like what you've done - just goes to show you that you don't have to have a huge back yard to fulfill a gardening passion.

Bike Verve said...

Thanks Giz, like I said if it does well next year I will be expanding.

OhioMom said...

LOL ... didn't realize my daughter was signed into blogger when I answered you Giz :)

Michelle said...

It looks great and very healthy too.

Good luck!

OhioMom said...

Thanks Michelle :)

Anonymous said...

Ohiomom, you mentioned that you were going to try this and I've missed all the fun up until now. Where there's a will there's a way, and you've found it. I can't wait until some of this produce finds it way into your recipes.

Pidge said...

Whoops, that last comments was from me, Pidge, and I it the wrong button. I don't want you to think I'm just a lurker!

OhioMom said...

Hi Pidge

Yes this is my "urban experiment", and so far so good ... as a matter of fact I am on my way to the garden now to pick some basil for dinner tonite ... stay tuned :)

MrBrownThumb said...

Ohiomom

I was just going to reply to your e-mail again asking for pics of your new plant but stopped in here first.

Very cool and I love the idea of the rooftop garden. Congrats.

OhioMom said...

Thanks MBT ... and I am so happy to stop in at your blog and find your sharing with us again :)

Asha said...

Love your potted garden! Beautiful! I have one too, love growing veggies every summer. I have Pear Tomatoes right now!:))

OhioMom said...

Thank you Asha, and thanks for stopping by ...