My Chicago Garden

The Chicago area is on the edge of Zone 5 and Zone 6. Make sure you know your zone before you take any advice about planting times, growing techniques and the like from this website.

About

For several years now I’ve been part of a resurgence of gardening in suburban society. Only recently has there been articles in the main stream media about the urban/suburban families wanting to get “back to their roots”. Even as a small child in an urban city, I had a garden in the back yard along the brick fence.

We moved into our first home in 2001 in Northern Kentucky. I increased and improved the small garden in our backyard every year. Our house came with a very small garden that had been roughly cut out of the grass. For the first year or two, the garden sat dormant while we worked on the rest of the house and settled into the area. In 2004 I constructed 8 4×4 raised beds. We then planted our first crop that had a very encouraging harvest. In 2005 and 2006 I doubled the size of the garden.

Just when I got the garden to the point where I thought I was finished with the major construction I took a new job in Chicago. So much for that garden in Kentucky. We picked up our stuff and moved to Wheaton. A western suburb of Chicago, IL. We get to start all over again, and you get to come along and learn with us!

Walk-Thru

• May 10, 2008
• July 9, 2008

Year in Review

Year One - 2007 (flickr gallery)