What if rather than trying to get the weeds out of your lawn, you could make a lawn out of weeds. Well, wead on, dear weader, and you shall see how. Besides its well-known medicinal properties, the common weed Broadleaf Plantain (Plantago major) is a nutrient powerhouse, and thus gardeners everywhere should incline their eye […]
Category Archives: Fast-Growing Crops
Little Gem Lettuces Race Out the Gate
Little Gems, meet your new view, the mid-winter Portland cityscape. Today, under winter’s cloudy skies, but reasonably warm nonetheless (snowless, too; sorry, NY, DC, etc), I planted lettuce starts on the rooftop…the very same that I started a mere 25 days ago in my January 1st ritual seeding to augur in a good new year. Normally […]
Turn-update
Wow, when I wrote my last post about Hakurei turnips http://www.urban-ag-solutions.com/look-whats-turned-up-in-the-garden/, I threw down a challenge to all comers: impress me and do better than Hakurei. I had even put something new in the soil, a turnip variety I had never heard about before, just to see what it had alongside the master. Well the data’s […]
Look What’s Turned Up In the Garden
These are sexy, magazine-ready Hakurei turnips…probably photoshopped! These are honest-to-goodness Hakureis just out of the ground. Even though I’m a 20-plus-year gardener who rises to the defense of almost any vegetable, if you say the word turnip, my first thought is still a mustardy-tasting mash, sitting unwanted on a plate, probably having been […]