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The Urban Gardener

http://tugardener.blogspot.com/

This is my garden. Living in the city of Philadelphia, PA I decided to put it all together this year. What I want to show you is step by step, from start to finish how you can grow a productive garden even living in the city. Come in and follow along with me and see the results as they happen.

Added on: Apr 6th, 2008
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Donald B. Dousharm
Listed in: Gardening Green
Tags: flowers gardening urban vegetables square foot hurbs

Recent Posts

Today we are going to talk about mulching and moisture.

Posted on Sunday May 11th, 2008 at 03:53 in moisture, mulching

I was having a problem with retaining moisture in my beds. All the plants were drying and having slow growth. I think the main problem is no shade and all plants get direct sun. The other problem is if you remember in an earlier post, I had buried st...
Finishing Up But Just Getting Started

Posted on Sunday May 4th, 2008 at 19:26 in finishing up

Hello Fellow Gardeners and Friends,I realize that it has been a few weeks since I posted to this blog and I apologize for that. However I have been working very hard on this urban setting and I am happy to say that my project is complete.I would like...
Update For April 12, 2008

Posted on Saturday April 12th, 2008 at 08:17 in peas, spinach, beans, snow peas, romaine lettuce, early crops

Well here it is April 12, 2008 and we are starting to see some progress with the growing but I haven’t been able to do much work on the garden landscape as a whole. I am confident that I will be finished within the next month. The Early Crop: ...
Roots 1 Body 0, Look For The Rebound

Posted on Friday April 11th, 2008 at 03:20 in pain, injury

Well, I am back. I was not doing so well, on Saturday I was pulling roots out of the garden from an old tree that I am trying to get rid of and found it was stronger than me. Here is the story. If you have ever pulled the root system out of t...
Cats!

Posted on Wednesday April 9th, 2008 at 11:25

I spent most of my day away as I had to get x-rays on my ribs after pulling a root system out of my garden area of my back yard. Anyway this is what is leading up to the next problem that I haven’t managed to overcome as of yet.Cats may be cute and...
Gardening In The City

Posted on Sunday April 6th, 2008 at 15:59 in garden, frame, raised bed

I guess the best place to start is the layout of what I am trying to achieve. First off, I have been reading up on square foot gardening. Square Foot Gardening is a fairly new technique that is based on raised beds usually made of wood. The concept b...