Posted on 05 October 2009 by urbangardencasual.com
By Vanessa Richins
Earlier this year I wrote about how Joe Lamp’l, author and star of Tv gardening shows, started up a project where he vowed to create an organic victory garden for $25 or less.
As the main gardening season draws to a close, I thought I would give an update on how the project has gone.
He made greenhouses using empty plastic bakery cake boxes. Inspired by his example, I noticed that the 2 pound strawberry boxes I was buying at the grocery store would be perfect to use as urban garden-sized greenhouses.
Four or five wait patiently in my pantry now. I’ll be planting some pea seeds in there soon as I prepare to plant up my Earthbox.
Many people Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on 16 April 2009 by urbangardencasual.com
By Vanessa Richins
It began with a simple message on Twitter from @joegardener:
Interested in seeing me do a daily vid blog of starting organic food garden from seed? Goal 2 feed my fam of 4 on only $25 of supplies! Yes?
10:57 AM Mar 12th from TweetDeck
@joegardener happens to be the Twitter ID of Joe Lamp’l. He is the host of TV garden shows – Fresh From the Garden on DIY Network and GardenSMART on PBS, as well as the author of Over the Fence with joe gardener and The Green Gardener’s
That single post bloomed into the $25 Organic Victory Garden Challenge. He’s committed to showing people that it doesn’t have to be expensive to have an organic garden, even if you don’t have any tools or supplies.
His ideas are creative – he took an empty Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on 27 March 2009 by urbangardencasual.com
By Vanessa Richins
We’ve been talking about it for months as we followed Eat The View’s campaign.
They, along with many others, saw their dream finally come true: the ground for the White House victory garden has been broken.
On March 20th, 2009, First Lady Michelle Obama and students from Bancroft Elementary School (District of Columbia) started working on the new vegetable garden.
Mrs. Obama told reporters that this was the first vegetable garden she had ever had.
She decided to do the garden to help show children that vegetables can be tasty as well as healthy.
As her interview with the NY Times shows, “A real delicious heirloom tomato is one of the sweetest Read the rest of this entry »
