Hints for a Complete GOURMET GARDEN, on the cheap!

Step 2 Outside gardens: small parks

If you have a small park (this is my case) you can set up:

• your own "raspberry forest", which we'll need a good amount of sunlight but no hot days.
• big edible bushes like rosemary, oregano, Garden Nasturtium (aka Indian Cress, from which the seed can be eaten and whose flower is sais to be afrodisiac), etc.
• big fragant bushes like lavender, jasmines, etc.
• may be small fruit trees like citrus trees, mango trees, etc.
• tomato plants which don't fit well in pots, like yellow cherry or ordinary tomatoes.
• small areas with lettuce, basil, and mint.

Of course these are just ideas, you'll have to adapt your garden to your tastes, needs, climate, and possibilities!

The photos below show some of the plants and trees which I grow directly in the soil of the park.

Comments

[nrtenagrl]

I live in Arizona wish I could have a mango tree! I love your garden so much I have been inspired to start my own. I think it's great how you made use of old paint containers as pots. Great idea. Thanks.

[devonfletch]

Mango is a tropical plant, It would not survive Arizona winters, let alone produce fruit. Maybe the genetics boffins will overcome this limitation, or a serious heated greenhouse (a BIG one!) will get you a home-grown mango supply...  Let me know how it goes, I'd like a mango-tree, but at 25°S and 1500ft, mango trees grow fairly well, but do not produce fruit. This despite the fact we do not experience frost, let alone snow or blizzard.

[lucianoabcd]

Je you are welcome. Post some photos of your garden!

[caiooiac]

This wild lettuce in the second photo is called rúcula in Brazil, and though it is in the same family as the lettuce, here we don't consider it as lettuce. Just a curiosity...