Apartment gardens and auto sprinklers (a.k.a. rain)

One great thing about the rain: Auto-watering of my balcony garden! By balcony garden, I mean my basil plant. My tomato plant and mint are officially dead, partly because I forgot to water them and partly because squirrels keep jumping off my roof onto my balcony, sometimes landing directly on the plants, other times knocking them over. Miraculously, the basil clings on....

Which is to say I'm very jealous of my friend Summer's balcony garden, which grows everything from lettuce to lemons. Yes, these pictures are of her garden, not mine. She even has strawberries -- or more accurately, one strawberry, the birds having eaten the rest of them.

I ate that last one in the picture. I love the idea of growing my own stuff, but I really suck at it. Other apartment dwellers seem to have little trouble though. Jenn and Nat, neighbors of mine, even convinced their landlord to let them turn the front lawn into an edible garden. It's been a while since I've seen the garden, but belows a pic of Jen with the garden back in June last year.

Got an edible garden of your own? Link to pictures of it in the comments and inspire us all! More later on how I'm gonna jump start my new balcony garden in this new year --

Photos by Siel

Comments

[m]

I came across this list of community gardens in Los Angeles: http://lagardencouncil.org/index.php?option=com_contxtd&catid=33&Itemid=42

Do you know of anyone that has been involved with them? How did they work out if so?