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Urban Garden Update
Urban Garden Share in Lutz, Florida
A North Houston Urban Garden Share
Urban Garden Share
I Showed You Mine. Now Show Me Yours.
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Urban Garden Update

I'm sorry to have been missing in action for a few days, but work has taken my time, so here's a quick garden update in pictures.

My Edible Yard Urban Homestead growing carrots in containers

Container Carrots - What a difference a month makes!

My Edible Yard Urban Homestead growing corn in containers

Corn and Beans

My Edible Yard Urban Homestead growing edible daylilies

Waiting impatiently for the first daylily bloom.

My Edible Yard Urban Homestead growing peppers in containers

First Marconi pepper with 2nd to follow soon.

My Edible Yard Urban Homestead growing okra in containers

Burgundy Okra is thriving in the heat.

I've been working on a new project I think we'll all enjoy as a community. Details to come soon.

Happy urban gardening!

Urban Garden Share in Lutz, Florida

Kelly Williams in Lutz, Florida sent in these great shots of her urban homestead garden and her gorgeous daughter, too!

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Kelly Williams' great backyard urban garden.

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Kelly's raised bed garden from another view.

And here's what she has to say about her edible yard and what she's growing: "This is a view of the back edible garden from the lanai. On the trellis we are growing cantaloupe, cucumbers, acorn squash, butternut squash and watermelon. Also growing in this area now are Floradade tomato, giant red mustard greens, long beans, romaine lettuce, lemongrass, collard greens, lacinato kale (aka dinosaur kale), fennel, strawberries, pineapple, blueberries, chard, nasturtium, carrots, recently harvested beets, jalapeno peppers, poblano peppers, mint, lavender, scallop squash (aka pattypan squash), spaghetti squash, parsley, rosemary, thyme, culantro, Italian parsley, cranberry hibiscus, onion, and chives. The fencing is to keep an armadillo from digging up the plants. We also grow non-edible native plants in this area, as well. Currently growing is beach sunflower, beautyberry, native cassia, blanket flower, scarlet sage, Muhly grass, and oakleaf hydrangea.

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Someone seems awfully proud of her urban homesteading prowess!

My Edible Yard Urban Homestead - organic gardening

Look at this great squash trellis!

Thanks so much for letting us visit your edible yard, Kelly. You've got a great thing going!

A North Houston Urban Garden Share

Here's what Joeby Ralston from North Houston, Texas has to say about her urban garden: "I am sending you two pictures of my urban garden in the North Houston Area. I love gardening!!! I have 6 raised beds (4'x6'). I planted my potatoes and tomatoes on 2/9 to get ahead of the warm weather we get so early here in south Texas!"

My Edible Yard Urban Homestead - urban organic gardening in Houston, Texas

Joeby's urban garden. Love the raised beds and trellises!

My Edible Yard Urban Homestead - urban gardening in Houston, Texas

Look at the irrigation system Joeby's come up with for her raised beds. Nice!

Joeby goes on in her email to say that she's not entirely happy with her backyard garden. What do you think? I think she's nuts. It's stunningly gorgeous! We can all always make improvements, Joeby. That's what urban homesteading is all about!

Urban Garden Share

This is so terrific! The first person I got an email from is Janis Keller in Pembroke Pines, Florida with some gorgeous pictures of her urban homestead garden.

My Edible Yard Urban Homestead - Janis Keller's annona fruit aka cherimoya

Annona tree, also known as cherimoya.

Apple bananas.

Calabaza squash.

Just beautiful, Janis. Thanks so much for sharing with us!

I Showed You Mine. Now Show Me Yours.

So I've been posting my little walkway condo container garden photos and letting you know what's going on at my urban homestead. Tell me what's going on at yours. What are you growing? How are you growing it? Send me photos. I'd love to share them with our My Edible Yard Urban Homestead community.

Ara

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