Make your own mini-urban garden with DIY Veggiepatch

DIY Veggiepatch is a fun web site that teaches you how to make your own individual-sized urban garden using fabrics that are lying around the house. Some tips from Jo Szczepanksa, its creator:

1. Print out the templates.
2. Recruit friends. Not everyone knows their way around a sewing machine or a jigsaw/hammer. Plus its a lot cheaper buying the materials in larger quantities.
3. Consider using companion planting, so that you get less pests and bugs munching on your yummy veggies, and you don't have to use pesticides.
4. Find a spot with sunlight, or consider creating a spot with sunlight with some shiny reflectors.
5. Worms! The best thing to gardening ever. Put worms in one of your veggie patch pockets and they will eat up all your veggie leftovers and give you great soil, that will protect your vegetables from diseases and help them grow brilliantly.

[#1 posted by Rob Beschizza, April 10, 2009 11:29 AM]

Etsy etsy

[#2 posted by Rob Beschizza, April 10, 2009 11:34 AM]

That was just me babbling away, testing the comments.

[#3 posted by Rob Beschizza, April 10, 2009 11:37 AM]

Another test.

[#4 posted by Anonymous, April 10, 2009 2:34 PM]

I really don't get how you plant this!!

[#5 posted by Genevieve, April 10, 2009 6:53 PM]

Why in the world would anyone take all that time to sew these up when you can buy tubs and things to use for the same purposes at the dollar store? It's a cute idea, but totally impractical.

[#6 posted by Gloria, April 11, 2009 1:26 PM]

@5: You're asking the wrong people, Genevieve. Still, simple answer: It's fun.