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As my plants get more established and the upkeep becomes more regular (water, harvest, repeat), I'll be writing fewer Asphalt Garden posts. Now, however, the changes are

My four tomato plants, four basil plants and two cucumber plants are (relatively) safely stowed in their permanent homes. The

Earlier this week I did the hard work of building my self-watering containers. The next

For my second year of vegetable gardening in my apartment building's parking lot, I wanted to seriously expand my garden's footprint. I also wanted to increase the

For the past few days I've been constantly thinking about how I'm going to expand and improve on the vegetable garden I have in the parking lot

It's hard to spot the aphids in this picture, even with them circled. They're really tiny, and are the perfect dusty green to match the color of

My wife and I did something rather remarkable last weekend. We went down to the Asphalt Garden, pulled up a handful of radishes and a

When we last visited the carrot bed, I was harvesting what must have been the

Carrot seeds are incredibly tiny. It's very tempting to just brush the seeds from your hand into the soil, without caring too much about how evenly the