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I know — I could grow sunflowers on my balcony, for the flowers, the seeds AND the shade. Plus my grungy balcony would look pretty for a change. I love it. Facts about Sunflowers

The nice thing about living in San Diego is that it’s never too late to start a garden. It’s just a matter of what to plant and when to plant it. Oh, and where. Kind of like the five w’s we learned in journalism class [who, what, where, when and um, how -- I know, [...]

Freedom is growing your own food. That’s the philosophy of Jules Dervaes and his three grown children. They are supporting themselves by farming almost every inch of their 1/10th-acre yard in Pasadena, California — complete with chickens, ducks and goats. Their amazing urban farm, which yields three TONS of yummy organic food per year, [...]

At last, I have commandeered the digital camera long enough to show you the embarrassing results of my first gardening effort on the balcony:

I told you the tomato plants looked awful. I don’t lie. The Coke bottles are my attempt at a crude drip-watering system. It needs tweaking.

There is one good-looking tomato, just one. This [...]

I’d like to share photographic results of my little organic balcony gardening adventure with you, but my son seems to think that the digital camera I bought last year was my gift to him. Um–no. Now I can never find it when I want it and he always “forgets” to give it back. And of [...]