Gardening In Coconut Grove
November 29th, 2010 | categories: Grove News
One of my favorite things about living in Miami is that when the rest of the country is outside shoveling snow from the sidewalks, we can be out enjoying the warm sunshine.
About a month ago I called up Dylan Terry (a native and long time resident of Coconut Grove) of Ready-To-Grow Gardens to install 3 raised garden beds in my backyard – see photos above. We chose a place that got plenty of sun and within a matter of weeks we were up and running with heirloom tomatoes, Chinese long beans, red/green/purple bell peppers, malabar spinach, arugula and many others. We have roughly 75 vegetables growing in the 3 beds.
We were initially concerned with the flock of peacocks that roost in the tree above the vegetable garden (in the past they have destroyed countless pepper and tomato plants). But so far we have managed to outsmart them with some netting wrapped around the sides of the beds.
Dylan has also installed the public edible garden located outside Arquitectonica in the center Grove. In fact, one of my associates who lives near Arquitectonica is always walking over to snip an herb or two for his dinner.
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Thanks for the shout out Riley! Tonight is going to get really cold…. You might want to water your plants extra well, late at night and early in the morning, as well as cover each of the gardens with a sheet, blanket, or tarp.
I’d love to stop by and take another look at their progress soon!
Best,
Dylan / Ready-to-Grow Gardens