City garden: True stories about urban gardening 49 Articles

by Tina Hartley

When I first moved to the city with my new husband, I was filled with trepidation. I had been a country girl my entire life. I wasn't sure how well I was going to be able to adjust. We moved into my husband's boyhood home ...read more

by Christie Devine

Growing up in a suburb of Boston, I was always very used to driving down the street, viewing manicured lawns and the occasional front lawn garden. I always loved the look of the trees, fences, and flowers. It wasn't unti...read more

by Dorothy Marie Kucera

A "Raised Garden Bed"-plants up high, where no insects could find them? No more bending to the ground to plant, maintain and harvest the garden? It sounded ideal for me. I had ruptured my back disc in earlier years and ...read more

by Jean Villamizar

City Garden True stories about urban gardening Nestled in the heart of the Art Deco District on South Beach, amid the fabulous hotels and glamorous nightclubs, is an urban green space in the form of a botanical garden....read more

by M. Walk

New Home Gardening Learning the Land Being a native of Wisconsin, and raised on a Wisconsin Dairy farm. I am very familiar with the process of gardening. It was a way of life that instilled culinary expectation, and ...read more

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by Darlene Mokrycki

Provincetown Massachusetts hardly qualifies as a city. In fact, it is a tiny albeit wealthy little town at the very tip of the arm-shaped peninsula of Cape Cod. P-Town, as it is known locally, has no more than 4,000 people...read more

by Jon Coe

I moved into my little brick duplex in 1990. It was located on the outskirts of a small but disturbing city, but it was still inside of the city line! When I first moved in, it was as if the neighborhood still existed ...read more

by Taylor Shay

I sit up in bed, stretch, check the clock at my bedside and look out my window to my roof garden beyond. It's a bit hazy outside, this morning. Most likely the low clouds will dissipate as the day progresses. I cann...read more

by Danna Solomon

I'm not a gardener. And I don't live in an urban environment. I do, however, know first hand how love can flourish in an urban garden just as well as a daisy or a lilac. I began my four years at Tufts University aro...read more

by Linda Blackwell

New York is always busy; it's the city that never sleeps. I've lived in the big Apple all my life. All the noise and hurried people has never bothered me in the least. It is all part of the excitement of living in the b...read more

by Mark Marikos

My family had just moved into a new neighborhood, and now having the yard-space, decided to plant a tomato garden. We had planted one before in our old yard, but never had the space to plant one as large as this. Our nex...read more

by Shenni Bubb

December 1967. I guess the garden started by accident,if you could call it that. Now when I care to reminisce,I feel it was more a pre-pubescent tantrum.(On my behalf) Either way,the bouquet of pretty yellow sunflowers...read more

by Annie Barley

Jim is different. That much is certain. On the weekends, devoid of the Lands End shirts with his initials monogrammed on the pockets, his running shorts are an embarrassing length. His tube socks are pulled all the way up ...read more

by Dream Catcher

I always loved John Denver's song about "home grown tomatoes." Having moved into a rented condominium with no space for a garden and a small patio, my husband and I invested in three large pots and some healthy-looking to...read more

by Meagan Elizabeth Hightower

In high school, I had to take a horticultural class in my high school, which was almost in the middle of the city to where it was mainly buildings. My class had made a huge garden in the back of the school. We had many iss...read more

by Claire Count

When there is a will, there is a way. I love gardening. I am happiest out in the warm sun getting a little dirty and helping things grow. But I live in a townhouse in Atlanta. I have no yard. So I can't. Hmmph Will I le...read more

by Pat Lunsford

Losing my husband to cancer depressed me almost to the point of no return. Life as I knew it had changed forever, and I withdrew from it into a dormant existence. Ralph, my son, insisted I live with him and his wife for...read more

by Josh Lindenbaum

Buildings are planted into cement, everything underneath dies. The pipes are the roots going in all different directions like the rails on roller coaster rides. These plants don't grow, they are grown. They are fed mone...read more

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by Stacy Cartledge

When mom and dad finally decided that rather than plotting how they would kill one another, it would be a great idea to just go their separate ways. After all, both of them were from small rural towns where everybody knew ...read more

by Maureen Cessna

After living in Florida for 15 years, my husband and I returned to his home state of Ohio. We bought a house right in the middle of an urban community. The houses are so close we have to share a drive way on one side. T...read more