Posts by Everybody Gardens
In the Garden: Adding instant color, creating a nursery bed and repairing statues
Everybody Gardens editor Doug Oster found flats for a dollar and plants them in empty containers. He’s also showing the benefits of a nursery bed. Oster loves statuary and shows how to find them cheap and fix them up.
Somalis adopt vacant city lots to create farm through City of Pittsburgh
The City of Pittsburgh’s Adopt-A-Lot program allows people to take vacant lots and transform them into gardens. The United Somali Bantu of Greater Pittsburgh has done just that, farming nearly an acre in the Perry Hilltop neighborhood.
In the Garden: It’s watering 101, fertilizing shrubs and a revealing tour of Doug’s garden
Everybody Gardens editor Doug Oster is showing the right way to water. This avoids fungal issues in the garden and keep plants happy. He’s also doing the last fertilization of shrubs for the season. Check out a tour of the highs and lows of Doug’s Garden too.