What Are Your Favorite Urban Gardening Resources?
In August of 2008 we moved into our current house, a rental, here in Oceanside. It’s an old, 60′s era, ranch rambler, completely outdated and run down, and totally energy inefficient.
We love it.
It also sits on half an acre, wedged in a unique little crevice of our neighborhood. There are 5 avocado trees, three apricot trees, and lemon tree, and an orange tree, so last summer we were swimming in fruit. Jenell was inspired by the space, so she planted a very small vegetable garden outside our kitchen door – a few tomato plants, peppers plants, some herbs, and an eggplant. We enjoyed wonderful homemade salsa all summer long. (Jenell also had a pretty decent shared garden in Ohio we enjoyed for two seasons).
This year we’ve decided to get more serious.
Our hope is to develop a genuine food producing garden in our backyard, one that we can possibly share with our church and our neighbors. I’ve carved out a section of the expansive backyard about 50 feet by 15 feet and our plan is to grow greens, sweet potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, beans, onions, leeks, etc. We’ve checked out a half a dozen books from the library on backyard food production, and I’ve been on the internets (of course), but, frankly, the information is overwhelming.
So.
If you garden, what are your favorite sources? Books, websites, whatever. Send us your recommendations please…we need the help!
