Finally got out to my garden plot after 10 days away from it. It was a total weedapalooza. Morning glories and other weeds are taking over everything. And almost all of the potato vines have wilted and dried out. I don’t know if they’re getting choked by the morning glories, succumbing to late blight, or [...]
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How the garden fared in my absence
Posted in Gardening, tagged beets, brandywines, cucamelons, mexican sour gherkins, onions, pests, potatoes, squirrels, swiss chard, tomatoes, urban gardening, weeds on July 29, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Other People’s Gardens: Glover Park Community Garden
Posted in Gardening, tagged community gardening, deer, onions, other people's gardens, pests, urban gardening on July 9, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The second in my semi-regular series on community gardens around DC, the Glover Park Community Garden is actually less than a mile from the Newark Street Community Garden where I have my plot. But the Glover Park garden was distinct in several geographical and institutional ways. The first thing I noticed upon entering the garden [...]
Guerilla Gardening
Posted in Gardening, tagged guerilla gardening, strawberries, urban gardening on July 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This past winter I heard about the website Sharing Backyards, which connects landless wannabe gardeners with people who have gardens, but don’t want to garden themselves. (This is the same site that helped the guys over at The New Urban Sharecroppers get a yard to garden in. ) I was surprised to see that someone [...]
Other People’s Gardens: Temple Garden
Posted in Gardening, tagged community gardening, community gardens, Gardening, other people's gardens, photos, raspberries, tours, urban gardening on June 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The community gardens of DC come in many shapes and sizes. I have a plot at the Newark Street Community Garden, but I like to visit other gardens to see what’s growing, what’s interesting, and what’s different. I’ll make it a semi-regular series on this blog. Yesterday I visited the Temple Garden, which is on [...]
Urban Gardening and Crime Prevention
Posted in Commentary, tagged academia, Boston, broken windows, community gardening, crime, crime prevention, Harvard, urban gardening on April 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
When I was in grad school, I wrote a paper about the potential connection between community gardens and crime prevention, with specific attention to the city of Boston. I do not claim that I found conclusive evidence that urban gardens actually help reduce crime. If anything, my experience this year has shown that community gardens [...]
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Why no urban farms in DC?
Posted in Commentary, tagged DC, local foods, locavores, Obama, urban farming, urban gardening, white house garden on May 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A New York-based blog called Simple Good and Tasty highlights three working farms that exist within New York’s city limits. It reminded me of a question I asked at dinner the other day: why aren’t there any farms in DC? Somehow there’s room for four golf courses within the district limits, but as far as [...]
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