Garden hacks

2019-10-08 — 2020-04-14

quality 3.2

Wherein the Avoidance of Urban Fruit Cultivation Is Explained by Elevated Lead in the Soil, and the Adoption of No‑dig Portable Beds and Community Compost‑sharing Is Described.

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Figure 1

Growing fruit is not my jam in the toxic industrial wasteland I live in.

Here are some notes on what’s happening in my neighbourhood and my incidental engagement.

vegepod is a no-dig portable garden-bed supplier.

Figure 2: Matt Lubchansky, I got mine

Indolent kitchen gardening is the book I used last time I had a garden that I did not neglect to death, in Canberra, in 2006.

No space to compost? Need more food scraps for your compost? Try sharewaste, the free social network for compost sharing.

1 Toxic stuff

See toxic pollution for some notes on the dangers of growing food in the city.

Figure 3

2 References

Smith. 1981. Indolent Kitchen Gardening : A Vegetable Growing and Cooking Guide for the Part-Time Canberra Gardener Using Minimum Effort and Organic Gardening Techniques.