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Urban Survival Gardening: A Comprehensive Grow Guide For City-Dwellers
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Urban Survival Gardening: A Comprehensive Grow Guide For City-Dwellers
By Dan Mowinski
Note: this guide is aimed at those who intend to garden in containers, rather than directly into soil. If you have a small plot click here.
What happens when the potting mix runs out of nutrients?
What about pests, especially when insecticides aren’t available?
What about winter and early spring, when even the hardiest veg refuses to grow?
These are a few of the questions that I want to tackle. I’m not a survivalist, but I am a gardener with an interest in the topic. And I’ve found that most information about urban survival gardening falls short, especially online.
So in this guide I want to outline how you can have a high-yielding edible garden, in even the smallest of city spaces, that covers all the bases. I hope you enjoy it…
I believe that the essence of growing food in difficult circumstances can be distilled into a handful of key guidelines.
Each of the longer sections below corresponds to one of the following principles. If you’re in a hurry, this is the meat of the article.
Use storable media to make your own potting mixes. Materials like coir and perlite will keep indefinitely and don’t take up a great deal of space.
Know your feeds. Concentrated products store well and will enable growing when compost isn’t available.
Be as self-sufficient as possible, given your circumstances.Wormeries, bokashi bins and hot composters are all ways in which city-dwellers can recycle the majority of their waste in a small space.
Choose the right veg varieties. Opting for those that are small, nutrient-rich and fast-growing can dramatically boost your harvests. Using the right containers will help too.
Companion plant to deter pests. Growing the right combinations of plants together can be as effective a deterrent (if not more so) than insecticides and fungicides, though it doesn’t hurt to have some around.
Extend the growing season. With the right approach, and hopefully a city micro-climate, you can grow all year round.
So lets dig a little deeper into each of these…….more here
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