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Crowdsourced Urban Gardening

June 19, 2009

I have been looking for some answers recently on the web but haven’t been able to find them – so I thought I would outsource the problem to you guys!

First of all, big thanks to Susan Gallagher for all the hard work she’s done on the new website. I think you’ll agree it’s a smashing [...]

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Gallery of Growth on Balcony

May 10, 2009

In this post I wanted to take a break from the recent tutorials to do a bit of an update on the growth on the balcony.

As you can see above the potatoes are looking good (at least the above soil portion is!). At the near end of the trough are the pentland javelins, coming in [...]

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Getting the Potatoes Down Before St. Patrick’s Day

March 12, 2009

They say in Ireland to get yer potatoes in the ground  by St. Patrick’s Day so I’ve put down two types of potato in the trough I built a few days ago on the balcony.

I hadn’t provided space in the masterplan for the potato trough but was able to squeeze it in opposite the bean trellises.
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The two [...]

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