Farm & Garden

Grand Ideas to Garden in a Flat

Do you live in the city but lack a yard to garden? Let’s learn to garden with what space we have.

JM Heatherly
9 min readJun 24, 2021

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Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash

Traditionally, food crops and flowers grow in the ground, and humans perfected the art throughout millennia. Today, folks still flock to cities where there are jobs and resources. However, they lose yard space when living in apartment dwellings. In these circumstances, necessity requires a bit of unconventional thinking to appease the gardening bug.

Want to have your tomato and eat it too? There are ways to do so. Craving fresh herbs in the dead of winter but don’t want to leave the comfort of your condo? Cultivation within containers supplements that desire but requires a bit more maintenance than setting it and forgetting it.

You may choose to garden because there are ways to fulfill that need beyond digging in the ground. Whether on a balcony, near a sunny window or beneath a lamp, you must bring the forest to you. We flesh this out in detail as follows: why garden in your apartment, plant needs, what you can grow, and how to grow it.

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JM Heatherly
JM Heatherly

Written by JM Heatherly

(he/they) Blogger, Gardener, Musician, Organizer, Ecosocialist jmheatherly.substack.com

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