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Published by clarizebergunio029, 2019-08-09 09:33:53

urban planting

urban planting

What Is Urban
Gardening?

Urban gardening is Urban gardening,
the process of which is also known
growing plants of as urban horticulture
all types and or urban agriculture,
varieties in an encompasses several
urban environment. unique gardening

concepts

Unique Gardening
Concepts:

Container gardening: Common for people with small
patios, yards, or balconies. Container gardening
makes use of a variety of containers – buckets,
old tires, raised beds, window boxes, kiddie pools,
barrels, shoes, and watering cans – for growing

all manner of plants for food or beauty.

Indoor gardening: When no
patios, decks, yards, or
balconies are available, indoor
gardening can also be an
effective urban gardening
method. Plants can be grown in
containers similar to those in
container gardening, as well as
in indoor greenhouses or
solariums (sunrooms).

Community gardening: This is a method of
using outdoor public or private spaces to
cultivate gardens for food or pleasure as a
group and is a great choice for those with no

yard or outdoor space.

Guerilla gardening: A more subversive
form of urban gardening, guerilla
gardening is a way of adding plants
to public spaces that don’t
technically belong to the gardener
such as a vacant lot, median, beside
a highway, or in little strips of dirt.

Green Roofs: Roofs designed
with a growing medium for the
purpose of cultivating plants
are also a form of urban
gardening and can be used to
grow food, trees, and many
other types of plants.

Urban gardening
provides many
environmental,

social, and health
benefits:

- Provides a local - Mitigates storm
source of food water runoff
- Brings - Helps filter air
communities and and rain water
families together - Mitigates the
- Educates urban urban heat
children about island effect
the origins of - Creates leisure
food and recreational
- Adds green spaces for
spaces to cities humans
- Helps prevent
soil erosion

Trivias About Urban
Gardening

- Urban farms - Hunger is still an issue

supply food to even in developed countries, for
about 700 million example in Europe, there are
city dwellers this 30 million undernourished
people. Urban agriculture
is one-quarter of provides an inexpensive source
the world’s urban of nutritious food with a lot

population. of urban agriculture plots

managed by communities.

- Garden plots can be

up to 15 times more

productive than rural

holdings. An area of - Urban agriculture is
just one square meter also usually organic
can provide 20 kg of which means the produce
food each year is more nutritious

compared to products

grown in large-scale

farms which use

pesticides.



-- Increases -- Creates a Sense of
Food Security Belonging

Food security is Urban farming is one way to bring
having access to and urban dwellers together to
being able to afford establish a sense of community
nutritious, safe food among people otherwise
and enough of it. This independent and, in some cases,
is a major concern for isolated.
many families all over
the world. Fortunately, -- You get fresher,
urban farming healthier food
contributes to greater
food security. herbs, vegetables and fruits and are
more likely to eat what’s in season,
when you eat what’s produced on an
urban farm.

-- Makes Efficient Use of Land

We can efficiently use the land we do have
to feed the people. Consider rooftop or
vertical gardens: they take up minimal
space but produce tons of fresh, healthy
food. Many hydroponics systems are set up
vertically, to fit anywhere even indoors!

Further Information on
Urban Gardening

Urban farms won't feed
entire cities but that's not
really the point - It may
sound counterintuitive,
but in many ways the
actual food grown in
community gardens and
urban farms nowadays is
their least important
contribution.

The social benefits A number of old
of urban farming can industrial cities, like
be large but they're Cleveland and Detroit,
not always shared - have been pushing
That brings us to community gardens and
the possible social farms as a way of
benefits of urban revitalizing
farming. neighborhoods falling
into disrepair. And there
is indeed evidence that
urban farming is quite
valuable here.

Advantages and Challenges
of Urban Gardening

Advantages:

For the Advantages For

farmers: the Neighborhood:

- Proximity to - Direct visual and
markets participatory
- Proximity to a large connection to the
customer base and farm and the farmer
labor - Improved food
- Lower weed (and quality
some pest) pressure - Access for children
- Warmer conditions, to food and how it is
due to the urban heat grown
sink, which provide - Greening of
earlier production neighborhoods
- Job opportunities

Challlenges:

- Limited lateral space
- High land values
- Contaminated soils
- Theft and vandalism
- Pavement
- Loss and damage of crops
from birds and rodents
- High costs (water,
infrastructure, permits,
housing, etc.)
- Lack of experienced
skilled labor and
management

1. Avocados

-- Since avocado trees can grow up to 80 feet in
height, for your indoor or container garden, look
for dwarf varieties. You could also try starting your
own avocado plant with a pit, but Gardening Know
How cautions, “A plant produced from a seed is less
likely to produce fruit, but it will make a lovely tree.”
They also recommend using a stake to keep the
avocado tree straight and its main stem sturdy.
And when the tree outgrows its pot, transplant it
to a larger container.

2. Strawberries

Fresh strawberries right at home is a dream
come true with the proper lighting and soil. In
fact, the strawberry plant is perfect for
planting in something like a hanging basket
because it doesn’t require a lot of space and it
grows just as well in a container as it would in
the ground. Ever-bearing varieties produce
fruit in the summer and again in early fall.

3. Carrots

Carrots are a great source of
vitamin A, fiber, and alpha and
beta carotenes. And, it’s not
only the root that’s edible, you
can also eat the fern-like foliage.
Carrots grow best in light,
sandy soils and full sun.

4. Cucumbers

Growing cucumbers indoors can ensure you
have a never-ending supply of cucumbers.
They do need plenty of water and full sun to
ensure they are healthy. Also, look for
varieties that are better for containers.
According to Grow It Organically, “although
most varieties of cucumbers grow well in
containers (as long as they’re at least 5-
gallon size!), bush cucumber varieties are
bred for compact vines, and are less rangy
on decks and in small-space gardens.”

5. Green beans

Green beans are a yummy, healthy and easy
veggie to grow in a container. When
purchasing your seeds, remember there are
two main plant types. There are beans that
grow as vines (usually referred to as pole
beans) and bush beans. For indoors, the bush
beans will take up less room and do better in
containers. Another consideration is lighting
— green beans need at least six hours of
sunlight every day. If that’s not an option in
your space, a grow light would work as well.

6. Salad greens

Salad greens are probably the easiest and
quickest to grow in your small space. Gardener’s
Supply Company says that a sunny window is
the best spot to put your salad greens
container garden, preferably a south-facing
window. The company sells a Mobile Salad
Garden cart that is practical and adorable. It’s
on wheels so you could even roll it out onto a
deck or balcony.

7. Garlic greens

Growing garlic plants indoors is an easy
and delicious way to have a healthy
ingredient at your fingertips. The garlic
greens taste like scallions but with an
added garlic flavor. You can use them in
any recipe that calls for garlic or
scallions.

8. Peas

There are few flavors as delicious as
freshly picked peas. My girls love to eat
them raw from the pods, so having a
fresh supply year-round would be a
dream. And fortunately, it’s possible —
the Empress of Dirt discovered how well
peas grow indoors by accident.

9. Jalapeno Peppers

The best peppers to grow in containers
are smaller chili peppers, which is
perfect for anyone wanting to add a
little spice to your recipes. They grow
well indoors and will produce fruit for
more than five years if tended
correctly.

10. Radishes

Radishes are super easy to grow,
quick to sprout and ready to eat in
only four to five weeks. The site
Quarto Knows recommends when
selecting a container for growing your
radishes, chose a “narrow, rectangular
pot to mimic the way that radishes
would grow in the field. They need to
be at least a few inches apart for
adequate growth, so putting them in a
long container will create a nice row
that’s also visually appealing.”





“The garden suggests there might be a
place where we can meet nature halfway.”

— Michael Pollan

“A garden is a grand teacher. It
teaches patience and careful
watchfulness ; it teaches industry and
thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”

— Gertrude Jekyll

―The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head
in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a
garden is to feed not just the body, but the
soul.‖

— Alfred Austin

Prepared by:

Clarize Bergunio
Samantha Kate
Santiago
Chrizzzie Janna Raz
Treshta May Novicio
Tobert Alex Magora


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