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City Life, City Garden

Apr 20

4/20/2011 11:34 AM

By Mimi

When you hear the word "urban," you hardly expect it to be paired with "garden." Urban landscapes typically invoke images of cold, barren wastelands of glass and steel, and vacant lots filled with trash and weeds, right?

Not necessarily.

For the resourceful gardener, even the mean streets of Seattle hold the potential for growing an oasis of green. Whether you're trying to gain more control over the quality of your food, create a quiet, private haven in the concrete jungle or just have something alive around you, urban gardens are all about using small and unexpected spaces efficiently and creatively.

Here are some options:

• Indoor gardening. You might not be able to raise a crop of zucchini, watermelons or corn, but any bright, unobstructed window that gets six to eight hours of sunlight a day can support leaf crops like lettuce, or arugula, and herbs like chives, basil, mints and rosemary.

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