Wooly Pockets are an interesting modular system for creating indoor and outdoor gardens. Constructed out of a soft, felt-like material made out of recycled plastic bottles, the pockets can be hung and stacked to create space-saving vertical wall gardens, and the flat syle allows for a more traditional flexible plant container. The material breathes, keeping [...]
June 25, 2009
April 9, 2009
Garden Tutors Teach the Art of Growing Food
A new program in the UK is matching up novice gardeners with experienced horticulture tutors. Over 32,000 people have signed up for the program, that promises to help them with everything from finding a suitable plot of land to deciding what’s realistic to grow. Tutors are also on call in the following months via phone [...]
April 3, 2009
Eggshell Planters
It really doesn’t get much more “green” or sustainable than this. The Build/Make/Craft/Bake blog has a tutorial on how to create little seed-starting planters out of eggshells. A simple but ingenious hack.
[via Curbly]
March 17, 2009
Home Gardening Making a Big Comeback
People are taking to gardening again it seems. But it’s not as a relaxing hobby - this new school of gardeners are hitting the soil to grow serious food.
Spurned on by the sagging economy, people are reviving the idea of the home (or apartment) victory garden to save money and eat healthier. A National Gardening [...]
January 6, 2009
Sharing Land: A Growing Revolution
Although community gardens might be nothing new, two UK based websites, Landshare and LandFit (temporarily on hiatus), are hoping to expand the concept in a radical way by putting would-be gardeners who lack the space in contact with those that would like to see their underutilized property put to good use. Time and again we’ve [...]






