As soon as upon a time, Southern California was stuffed with houses with yards stuffed with gardens. Rising meals was a given for a lot of households, particularly through the lean instances such because the Nice Despair and World Conflict II.
Lately, nonetheless, the necessity for inexpensive houses has moved many SoCal residents into townhouses, condos and residences, the place the “yard” is commonly nothing greater than a small patio, balcony or deck.
Though varied circumstances have eliminated a lot of our conventional yards, the craving to backyard stays. And many individuals have gotten artistic with containers, rising tomatoes and lemon bushes in pots or supported by trellises, strawberries in hanging baskets and even wildflowers in large containers.
Barbara Chung was so impressed by California native crops that she created a vibrant habitat backyard with some 200 principally native crops on her tiny townhouse patio in Santa Monica regardless of warnings that they wouldn’t survive. “I decided that couldn’t be right,” she mentioned. “And I would find a way to have native plants thrive in containers.”
I do know there are extra artistic gardeners on the market, creating tiny farms or habitat gardens on their patios, and I wish to share their tales.
Fill out the shape under describing your small-space backyard, and I’ll contact you later this spring for a narrative. Thanks for sharing.