MSN: Backyard garden interest continues to grow
MSN has this story from the Associated Press today: As food prices rise, more grown their own – seed and gardening companies see an upsurge in interest.
A snippet:
High prices at the pump and the produce aisle have sent home gardeners into their yards with a mission: Grow-it-yourself dining. Sales of vegetable seeds, tomato transplants and fruit trees are soaring as enterprising planters grow their own food. …
GRDN, a shop in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, is getting a lot of questions about which edible plants can be grown on a fire escape, said staffer Cindy Birkhead. “There’s lots of interest in herbs, blueberry bushes, tomato plants, any transplants or shrubs that bear edible fruit.”
You can grow something useful on an even smaller space than a fire escape. When I was at Lowe’s in Frenchtown Township the other day, I saw a little container garden you can put on a kitchen windowsill to grow fresh edible herbs.
Posted: May 20th, 2008 under Frugal living, Groceries, Home and garden, In the News.
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