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Comment by Amy on March 3, 2011 at 12:39pm

ahh, this book is on my amazon wish list just waiting for me! with a new house in a new city, i've been working at re-establishing my garden! last year i had cucumbers, raspberries & peas in half barrels. this year i've already started flats of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and some others in my living room.

Comment by Christine on March 2, 2011 at 2:04pm

This book sounds great! I live with my boyfriend in a small-ish urban apartment, so we've had to get pretty creative when it comes to gardening. We grow herbs and veggies in window boxes on our ledge, sprout beans in our living and have even tried one of those topsy turvy tomato planters in our bathroom! We currently have a tiny lime tree growing in a container. I'd love some more ideas about how to garden without a huge plot of land.

Comment by Cassandra Smithson on March 2, 2011 at 11:16am

I've always loved gardening but had stopped even trying for a long time. What's gotten me interested again was Mel Bartholomew's Square Foot Gardening. The first plot I ever made was only about that size because I had to leave room for the family cookout!

 

Now with his book I'm able to organize the same type of garden but have organized boxes and can just take off like a rocket! In fact this year I have to start with the boxes because I started my seeds indoors last year without my sfg boxes at the ready and the seedlings grew too fast!

 

Urban gardening is the thing to do to make sure we stay healthy and don't go broke just trying to feed our families! There's something to be said about this. It shows a self reliance that Americans haven't had in a good long time. The more people who do it and show just how easy it can be, the more people WILL do it and show others just how easy it can be. It can just take over and the only things most people will buy are things that need to be purchased at the store. For me that would mostly be sugar, milk, flour and my meats and fish. :)

Comment by Theresa Byer on March 2, 2011 at 10:22am

We garden organically and hydroponically~Our footprint of land is 50 feet by 100 feet.  Yep, that includes Tindel Den Cottage~ :)

 

Our dear Neighbor, Mr. Jeff, donated a piece of ground to let us play in the dirt more!  We grow all of our herbs~Parsley, sage, thyme, rosemary, basil, culantro, garlic chives, oregano and a lovely bay leaf bush that lives right outside our front door.  :)

 

Carrots, beets, elephant garlic, and an onion that we call Miz Wilson's as this wonderful gal of 90 years young has shared her "seeds" for us grace our table daily~This spring here in West Central Florida finds us awaiting our first harvest of sugar snap peas.  I sometimes sit on a recycled chair and watch them grow.  Well, I think about sitting!  :)  Our cultivated dandelion greens not only provide wonderful greens for us, but for our two Dixie Feathered Chix, too~ :)

 

Many varieties of tomatoes are awaiting their new home in the ground soon.  We planted them in January to hopefully see a sustainable harvest in May.  Yay!  Tam jalapeno, frittelini, and volunteer Hungarian peppers are going to be planted into our hydroponic towers.  I can hear them growing! 

 

Swiss chard, collards and assorted leaf lettuces have been our gifts to our neighbors and daughters for celebrations of life in the past month.  A wonderful sense of joy adds to our daily rounds as they come to watch what is growing, too!  :)

 

A fallen live oak last year not only gave us firewood for our kitchen woodstove(that's another wonderful story), but the tree's footprint left room to plant a Meyer Lemon tree and a homegrown Turkey Fig tree to reach for the sun's rays each day.  The Meyer Lemon Tree is in full bloom.  What a delicious scent spiral around her! 

 

The rangpor lime, Duncan grapefruit, and my hubby's three year's ago CHRISTmas gift, a red navel tree also bless us with the wonderful spring scent of their blooms.  Last year was a bumper crop of the rangpor lime.  Limeade is my favorite beverage on a hot sultry summer day~

 

Saved okra seed will be planted soon along with more roselle transplants, and of course, pumpkins, Waltham squash, green beans and my favorite, zucchini squash!  

 

We hope to add a trio of blackberry bushes this year to savor a blackberry and raw cow's milk dessert that my Mama made years ago.  The pineapple row is growing leaps and bounds and surely will be yummy later this summer. 

 

Wish you were here!!  Grandma T

Comment by Melissa on March 2, 2011 at 12:24am

We have just a little bit over an acre. Just moved in last July so this will be our first full summer here. I try to grow a little bit of everything. I seem to be most successful at tomatoes, green beans, radishes, lettuce, and zuchinni. Would like to learn to do a better job growing carrotts and melons. Seem to be at a constant battle with squash bugs. Current book is Square Foot Gardening. Trying to figure out if that's somethig I want to try. For me it's tough to see beyond what I'm doing now since it works for us. My goal is to limit my dependance on our local grocery store. My recent addiction is canning blogs.

Comment by scrappy buttons on February 28, 2011 at 10:30pm

I would like to grow carrots this year like the lady does on the hill, just out of town....Mostly I have grown tomatoes and strawberries...I have such a mole problem that I have given up on a garden in my yard..This year I would like to try growing some vegies in hay bales, containers and potatoes in a square foot.  The kid in me want a big pumpkin too....I read garden blogs and Mother Earth magizine.

Comment by James Kearns on February 26, 2011 at 10:49pm

James Kearns

Pawtucket, RI 02861

What I would like to grow:  Mushrooms

What I Grow: Tomatoes, peppers, cucs, squash, zucc, watermelon, mojo bananas, lettuce mix, broccoli, peas, asparagus,  and few I have yet to decide i gained a few more square feet. 

Latest book is: Square Foot Gardening

inspired me and was able to gain another  100 square feet.

Comment by Missy Kroninger on February 26, 2011 at 2:14pm

I'm getting ready to start a small organic farm in Ohio. I plan to raise alpacas, chickens, and bees, but I haven't decided yet what to grow. I'll probably grow herbs in a greenhouse and I want to have an orchard, but the rest will depend on the market and what my soils are like on my land. Of course I'll have a huge and varied household garden. I'm currently reading Starting and Running Your Own Small Farm Business by Sarah Aubrey and find it very inspiring.

Comment by Stacie Beyrodt on February 26, 2011 at 12:50pm

I garden in Montana with a very short season, and I am always looking for new ideas.  I like the idea of using what I already have to create new garden spots or some interest in the current garden.  This book looks very interesting. 

Comment by Melanie Paige on February 26, 2011 at 12:37pm

Hi! I love to flower garden and am kinda sorta new to vegetable gardening.  I grew up with parents who always had big vegi gardens but last year was my first year to plant my own. Unfortunately we had to leave town from June to August and left the garden to fend for itself. It was a weed jungle when we got home but still ended up with some squash, 19 pumpkins and 14 foot sunflowers! I hope to keep up with it better this year. Might give potatoes a shot too.

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