Here it is! With a catchy title and
everything! Welcome to my first post about apartment patio gardening.
I'm starting this blog after a bit of
pressure from one of my friends and my boyfriend, J. I recently moved
to Washington, D.C., from San Antonio, TX, and one thing I noticed
when I got here: there are a lot of freakin' apartments and many of
them look sadly bare. One day my friend from Austin asked me for
advice on what to grow on her small apartment patio. She wanted some
kind of plant that would cover her view of a typical, bleak parking
lot, as well as survive a beginning gardener's care and Texas summer.
Then she said: “What I'd love is an herb and vegetable garden, but
I'm not sure how feasible it is with such a small space.”
!!!!
Such a small space?! Size doesn't
matter.....for a vegetable/herb garden. It's amazing in how tiny a
space you can see a plant grow. J sometimes gets a little intimidated
by how much I manage to squeeze on our balcony and still leave some
room for us. I say there is always room for more. ;)
So my lovely friend asked me more
questions about how to start a garden on her patio. She then said
that she couldn't find much help online about making apartment
gardens. Some internet digging turned up plenty of great little
projects uran gardeners can do, but there seemed to be little
information about how the omst beginner and black-thumbed gardener
can get started. And that is why I decided to start a blog on
apartment balcony gardening: to show people in DC and other cities
that it is possible to have a garden in the smallest of living
spaces, how to get started, and feel like you have a small idea of
what you're doing.
Eat, drink, be merry, and get dirty!
Margie
