Busy Month @ The Urban Garden Project!

Hello Fellow Urban Gardeners!
It has been a while since we have posted and the reason???  It’s summer and we have been working out in the garden!  Some of our recent projects are not specifically in the garden but we always seem to find ourselves spending time in the garden regardless!  Today I built and stained [...]

A Freeze Warning on May 12th? Hoop Houses to the Rescue!

Yes unfortunately it is true.  On May 12th we were under a freeze warning.  So, like any diligent gardener would, I had to get to work to protect what we had already planted.  The hanging baskets were brought inside for the night and then I was left looking at our newly prepared and planted square [...]

Prepping Our Square Foot Garden Beds

The Urban Garden Project Test Garden is Built & Planted!

I can’t believe that I am able to tell you all that this weekend marked a milestone here at the UGP.  We finished building our garden!  The beds are built, the topsoil is in and amended, the grids are built and installed and 20 varieties of veggies are planted!  This was a lot of work [...]

Building The Urban Garden Project Test Garden

Well, I type this sore and still a bit tired after a long weekend building the Test Garden.  Friday after work Jared & I built and stained our square foot gardening raised beds made out of 2×12’s.  We ended up with a design of (4) 4×4 beds and (2) 2×6 beds with room for two [...]