If You’re Growing in San Francisco
Nov 3rd, 2009 by Naama
Several months ago I wrote here about my beautiful new urban garden. It was quite exciting to put together and take care of in the first couple of weeks; I’d say hello to my plants in the morning before leaving for work, and check to see what transformations took place each night as I came back.
One day, when I went outside in the morning, something didn’t seem right, it took me a minute to realize that my lovely cherry tomato plant was missing, gone, stolen under the cover of the night. I was somewhat shocked and a bit confused as to who would steal a cherry tomato plant, but in a typical Pollyanna attitude hoped that the tomatoes found a good home and people who’ll take care of them and that it won’t happen again. However, like the characters of a cheesy teen horror movie, all of my plants went missing one by one.
For a while there I lost faith in urban gardening and the human race, but then I watched IdealBite’s gardening competition, The Golden Hoe, and got inspired all over again. In these videos Hanah, Mike and Heather try to grow vegetables in their different San Francisco home settings: indoor, backyard, and rooftop. And the Golden Hoe goes to:
