Urban Vegetable Patch

We broke ground on June 12th 2011 for the urban garden in the back alley. 


This small piece of land is across from the dumpster and subsequently picks up quite a bit of the trash that is strewn about in the tangled mass of weeds, overgrown from years of neglect. 

The area sits outside of a privacy fence enclosing the latest foreclosed house on the block.  Why not get some use out of an abandoned city lot while beautifying our alley way?

After assembeling a compost bin out of old wood flats lying around, we began tearing out the mass of overgrown vegetation to be composted.







Glass was picked out of the ground as well as layers of trash.  Finally, we planted vegetable plants that were started indoors around January, some if which were producing fruits in April!


We have a few varieties of heirloom tomatoes including:  Money Maker, Large Cherry, Snow White, Hybrid Rainbow, and Yellow Pear.  Hot peppers including: Black Congo, Marbles, Poinsettia, White Habanero, and Primo Jalapeno.  About 25 green California Wonders were planted also. 

It is now September 6th and the garden looks great.  Most of the plants survived the drought and 20 something days of 90+ degree weather.  Two weeks ago, I sold 4 lbs of tomatoes to a local market along with a bag full of hot peppers.

 Below is a picture of some of the produce from the varieties of tomatoes and peppers.