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Patio Garden: Sow in So Little Space

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:17:30 +0000

Short on space or without a garden? Garden in bed. Scout Regalia’s bed. The freestanding fully-assembled raised bed SR Patio Garden is designed specifically for patios, balconies, and other hard surfaces. It’s a smart design and did I mention it’s eco-conscious,…

Mobile Urban Gardens in Upcycled Parcels

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:00:05 +0000

Welcome the itinerant gardener, not the one who travels from plot to plot, but the one whose community gardens travel from spot to spot. We’ve written about mobile gardens before, but these self-contained gardens go beyond being simply plant-growing mobile allotments, they…

Get Rolling With Mobile Vegetable Garden

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:45:16 +0000

Spotted on Instructables, this mobile garden-on-wheels is a stylish step up from planting in a wheel barrel.

The only available sunlight in the designer’s property was right in front of his garage door. Necessity, being the mother of invention, inspired the…

NYC Urban Garden Event Today

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:37:09 +0000

Today, April 25, from 10 am to 4 pm, New York Restoration Project (NYRP) and the NYC Parks Department, along with presenting sponsor Organic Gardening magazine, invite New Yorkers to this annual, FREE outdoor festival that promotes community gardening, tree planting…

Easy Thinking Beyond the Garden Frame

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:25:56 +0000

FIGO is a great new flexible garden frame connector whose use extends beyond plant frames: it’s great for constructing makeshift tents, sculptures, windbreaks, pet enclosures, geodesic domes – use your imagination!

FIGO allows you the freedom to build your own garden frames to whatever…

Have Travel, Will Garden: Chicago Plants Rail Car

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:51:21 +0000

The Mobile Garden, recently approved by the Chicago Transit Authority, will add green space to the windy city as straphangers enjoy a flatcar train garden during their commutes. The moving urban garden, to become a part of regular transit service,…

Instant Garden Anywhere: Just Add Water

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:02:22 +0000

Eleanor’s Garden, inspired by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s 1943 White House Victory Garden, is a complete, compact, portable garden in a kit delivered to your door. Set up and planted in less than an hour, the kit contains a Quick-Start Guide, a…

A Green Nod to Ancient Architecture

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:37:34 +0000

Sometimes we look back into history for the inspiration to create something current and practical. The artistic community in Oaxaca, Mexico has been a key player in the development of ideal spaces for showcasing and teaching Mexican art. The institutions nurturing the…

Bilbao Competition Plants 27 Urban Gardens

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:31:03 +0000

First place winner, Cacticity, by Anouk Vogel, at the Museao de Belles Artes in Plaza Chillida

In BilbaoJardín, the city of Bilbao, Spain has converted itself into a singular and compelling urban garden exhibition.

This is the second incarnation of BilbaoJardín, an urban garden…

Brooklyn Farm Keeps on Truckin’

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:41:52 +0000

Using green roof technology on the streets of Brooklyn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis are growing tomatoes, broccoli, arugula, and parsley inside the bed of a 1986 Dodge half-ton pick-up. Undeterred by having no land of their own, the men created this…