Early Broccoli

I set some broccoli plants the same day in the Earth and in the Grow Box. The top picture is the Grow Box. The bottom is in the Earth. The plants are in the same area -- within 20 feet of each other. Notice the larger size and healthier appearance in the Grow Box. I attribute this primarily to the black plastic cover. It will be interesting to see how much earlier the Grow Box plants mature. I have 3 plants in a 14-gal Rubbermaid container.

Shoreline, Washington

Last Wednesday night I received permission from the Board of Trustees to construct a Parking Space Garden in the parking lot of the Shoreline Unitarian-Universalist Church in Shoreline, Washington -- immediately north of Seattle. This will be a demonstration garden intended to show what can be done in one parking space. The project will receive financial backing from The Great Turning group at SUUC and the vegetables produced will be sold on Sunday mornings to benefit the Great Turning group.

Whe garden will include a portable greenhouse and security fencing. Pictures will follow in about a month.

Long Cold Spring

We're having our usual long, cold spring in the Puget Sound area. This has discouraged my planting schedule. However, I have been busy making parts for more Grow Boxes (I have decided to use this name for the home-made vegetable growing containers). I am promoting the parking space garden concept in my church and I hope to use one of the church parking spaces as a demonstration project this summer.

The plan will be to carefully record all food production from the pilot plot to test the conjecture that one person could produce all the vegetables they eat in a year from one parking space garden.

I expect this concept will take several years to mature.