Last week, Chris (yet another ENVSer) told me about a new series from a Denver newspaper, The Westword. The series, "Urbavore's Dilemma," features stories about homegrown food in Denver's urban environment.
According to The Westword's website, "Something strange is going on around Denver. Home owners are replacing sod with vegetable beds and building chicken coops by their garages. A power player is turning prime downtown real estate into a miniature farm, and a developer is planning a subdivision based around farmer's markets. Citizens are fighting for their right to raise honey bees, hens, dwarf goats and pot-bellied pigs. The urban homesteading movement is re-imagining, yard by yard and meal by meal what it's like to live in Denver -- not just to save money but to help the environment and enrich the country's food-production system."
Check out the series at: http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2009/05/urbavores_dilemma_down_and_dir.php
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I'm so glad to hear that so many of your sunflower seeds sprouted... I was nervous that I didn't plant enough. Whew!
ReplyDeleteYou still have extra pepper plants you want to share?
~Caitlin
KT, my sweet peppers are so far my weakest yield.some were planted indoors in my dining room, some planted directly in the soil, very scrawny on both accounts!
ReplyDeletebut, and everyone should be jealous I have a heirloom Purple Cherokee with a tomtoe (green, small) already growing! AND even tho we pulled out out broccoli as it had already flowered. we saw NEW broccoli!! so we replanted it!! ah, new gardeners!!
Mom - that's great! And I am very jealous of your purple Cherokees. I know less about the flowering issue, but you can harvest more than one head of broccoli off each plant (normally).
ReplyDeleteCaitlin - Yes, we will! Just got back from Utah and our sunflowers look awesome! We put a plastic top perched over the seedlings to try to keep the squirrels away and the sunflowers were totally overwhelming their top. They're probably about 8 inches high! Anyway, it's time to transplant the peppers, so it might be a good time to grab them.