Green Spaces and Community Gardens

07/22/2013

How do you improve your strawberry crop? Please share ideas! My berries keep getting mushy before they are fully grown.

07/22/2013

Awesome!

"God Bless America" played and horns blared as Marine Master Sgt. John Hayes waved from a gray van to onlookers lining Beech Street in Long Beach with American flags in their hands, thanking him and a

07/22/2013

Good ideas!

Simmering in the city? Innovative public parks are kicking it up a notch with splash-pads, spraygrounds, and other fun ways to beat the heat. Here are some of our favorites: http://ow.ly/n8N8j.

07/22/2013

Why micro-gardening might be the next BIG thing: http://ow.ly/n3NJO.

Photo © Jamie Hopper/The Trust for Public Land

07/13/2013

"To ensure this protection lasts into the future, the California Department of Water Resources recently paid for a conservation easement on the ranch. The easement prevents development on the land, ensuring it will remain in farming, which stands up to flooding better than homes.

To put that more bluntly, the deal helps ensure levees on the farm will not be raised beyond their current height. This means that in severe storms, the farm is likely to flood first, serving as a kind of hydraulic relief valve for Sacramento and its nearly half-million residents."

Gee...you mean that green spaces, ie. LESS development, actually mitigate potential floods in urban areas???

It’s not every day that we protect farmland that could potentially save a half-million people.

This land will remain prime farmland and an important wildlife habitat—forever. And it could act as a bulwark to protect California’s capital and its residents from : http://ow.ly/mOs3L .

07/13/2013

THIS IS FANTASTIC!!! IMAGINE GETTING BACK OUR WATERFRONT AS PUBLIC GREEN SPACES!!!!

Developers announced plans to construct 500 condominiums on 92-acres along Stringer's Ridge overlooking downtown Chattanooga in 2007, and we are now happy to announce that the area is protected as a public park that—as of Saturday—is OPEN TO ALL.

06/26/2013

In need of serious rose bush help: My Betty Boop keeps getting spotted yellow leaves. ANY REMEDIES???

06/26/2013

Hey LB gardeners!! Post your garden photos here!

06/25/2013

Impressed with West End gardens!!! People are doing a great job replanting their house gardens. Looking better than ever!

06/23/2013

Has anyone else noticed how well the rose bushes are doing since Sandy?

06/22/2013

WOW! Long Beach CA!!!! THIS IS GREAT!!!

"Long Beach Grows is contributing to the City of Long Beach’s sustainability goal of establishing community gardens in every park 5 acres or larger by 2020, converting 100% of city owned vacant lots to interim or better yet permanent green uses, and creating new permanent green spaces, including community gardens and urban farms."

06/20/2013

What's your favorite flower to plant in your garden??? Share your gardening tips here!