Urban Gardening

Here is a shallow pool garden, made by laying out a layer of rubber, maybe from an old innertube, with something to hold up the edges slightly. Then you can plant and use a mulch of some sort to help support your plant and hold the moisture in. Here we used small stones as a mulching substance. This bed also uses the Bucket irrigation as explained in the previous post. 

This picture is a wick bed with sweet habaneros demonstrating different methods of mulching, in the front we have soda cans, middle is composting matter and the back has wood chips.

Here is an example of a roof top chicken coop. The chickens provide eggs, meat,and manure (for fertilizing). And as you can see it is not a waste of space the chickens have a wick garden on the roof providing a place to grow vegetables and shade for the chickens.

This is a wick garden at another level, say you were a woman who sold herbs in the market and you go out and cut your herbs in the morning and take them to market to sell, by midday they are wilting and at the end of the day you have to dispose of what you have left over. Well if you were to make a portable structure such as this one, by placing a piece of rubber over a bamboo frame and then make a wick garden on top of that and grow your herbs in this garden. This would give you the opportunity to  carry your garden with you to the market and therefore have fresh herbs to cut all day long and not waste any.

This is and example of some gardens made out of old gutters. These tend to dry out quickly and could use some brillient brainstorming to make them more effective. 

Well I hope you have enjoyed a brief tour of the Urban Garden area of the Global Village I hope to introduce you to all the areas over the next few weeks.