Consider many other cities across North America, both big and small, that have laws on the books protecting a homeowner's right to grow a front
yard vegetable garden: Vancouver, Portland (OR), Los Angeles and Pasadena, just to name a few.
If a front
yard vegetable garden is good enough for Eleanor Roosevelt and Michelle Obama, maybe, just maybe, it's good enough for the rest of us.
Not exact matches
Yes indeed, I remember the days of our huge
garden — then we downsized our home and there went the
yard and
vegetable garden.
You see, I am turning my front
yard into a
vegetable garden this summer, complete with raised beds, trellised vines, and (hopefully) crazy amounts of tasty food.
We created a
vegetable garden in our back
yard about two years ago and one if the first things we planted was curly kale.
Another episode finds Bal at the controls of a backhoe, landscaping her
yard to make way for a long - planned
vegetable garden followed by a festive dinner party to celebrate her bountiful harvest.
Whether you've got houseplants, a flower
garden or your very own
vegetable crop growing in the back
yard, you can enlist your elementary - aged child in taking care of them.
My husband and I are itching to get our
vegetable garden planted and add some flowers to our
yard.
Vacant lots and public parks became fields of
vegetables and many people grew
gardens in their front
yards or on rooftops.
I am pregnant with # 4, and we have a big
yard and
vegetable garden.
And, even though that means we have lots of
yard work to keep up with, I'm really excited to plant a
vegetable garden along with some pretty flowers!
I have
gardens,
vegetable, fruits and flowers, and enjoy working in the
yard.
More than ever people are turning their back
yards into green and growing
vegetable gardens.
I take care of the kids, raised cattle, plant and take care of 5 acres of
vegetable gardens and fruit orchards to help feed my family, keep house, do the finances, help with the regular
yard work and generally keep my family healthy and happy.
Whether you've got houseplants, a flower
garden or your very own
vegetable crop growing in the back
yard, you can enlist your elementary - aged child in taking care of them.
He travels extensively with his family and has always been into photography, archeology, collecting ancient Greek and Roman coins, red wine, and tending his fruit trees,
vegetable garden, and bird feeders in the back
yard.
We all want our furry kids to enjoy playing in the
yard, but not at the expense of our prized
vegetable garden and beautiful flowerbeds.
As well as the
vegetable and herb
gardens, there is a beautiful orchard for you to explore and during the summer you will be able to watch the pigs and piglets playing in the traditional pigsty with outdoor
yard and mud bath.
A backyard (or front
yard for that matter)
vegetable garden will certainly give you some self - sufficiency.
A good quality potting soil can make all the difference in container
vegetable gardening, as it will be loose and friable enough for optimal root growth, will hold water for longer periods of time than plain ol' dirt from the
yard, and will also dry quickly enough (and maintain air spaces within it) to allow the plant's roots to get oxygen.
There's also a large space for a community
garden, and each cottage has a
yard about the size of a tablecloth where the residents are encouraged to plant flowers,
vegetables, or anything else.
Thankfully in our area we can have grey water systems that diverst shower / tub, kitchen sink and washer water to a filtering system that waters the
vegetable garden and
yard.
Surprise: you can grow a perfectly respectable
vegetable garden (in the ground or in containers) and eat fresh food from your own
yard or balcony all summer long.
In the far back corner of the
yard behind the BBQ, we will be building our own
garden boxes to grow
vegetables!
The most I have ever done in my
yard is a
vegetable garden that yielded only beets and corn.