A fantastic example of container gardening, this time from the Chelsea Flower Show, created as part of the Eden Project, you can imagine it working brilliant in a warehouse apartment conversion or outside a large block of flats.
Apologies for that headline there, it was cheesy and mildly offensive (to some), but I wanted to grab your attention and tell you about a bunch of great and really interesting links I came across yesterday.
Here at Green Renters we spend a lot of time thinking about ways to live sustainably in a rental property. Like everyone, sometimes we find it hard to find time to do everything around the home that we’d like to. But I see it as an ong0ing process rather than a big list of ‘must do now’ items. Finding time to garden can be hard, and finding time to shop ethically even harder.
An event that might interest the home food gardeners
Saturday 13th March
City Square, Swanston Street
10am – 2pm
Rooting a plant in water allows you to add more green around the house without buying more plants. Simply take a clipping from an existing plant and place it in water. In one week, roots will have begun to grow. Not only do we like the fact that we can spread the greenery (and green) around our house this way, we love the look of rooting a plant in a transparent glass container.
via Apartment Therapy.
We’ve done this at home to good effect with mint and geraniums.
We talk a lot at Green Renters about the benefits of growing your own veggies. I’m lucky to have Melbourne Cup Day off work as it’s a public holiday in Melbourne so I’m planning spending at least some of the day in the garden.
Before the festivities begin, you might like to pop down to a local nursery (or bigger places like Bunnings which are always open) to pick yourself up some seedlings.
Great things to plant right now:
Lettuces 
(they needn’t take up much space, you can see these ones are planted in a bowl then placed in a sunny spot. Just pick the leaves as needed)
Here’s a great resource explaining the differences in asian greens.
These tumbler tomatoes are a great example of ‘planting up’
Spring gardening is great fun and before you know it you’ll be adding herbs to your own risottos and pastas, fresh mint in your beverages, freshly picked salad….great stuff!
