Urban Garden: Spring Crops

There are a lot of options for edible things that will grow well in an urban environment; a few containers, a few seed packets and you can have quite the pretty, edible balcony.  You can enjoy a homegrown dinner with the twinkling lights from the skyline for your backdrop.

We planned our garden this year to allow for a spring crop and then a second planting for summer crops.  We might even do a final round of things for fall.  Many of the things that are great for a spring crop, because they do well with cooler temps and have a short growing season, are also excellent candidates for a container garden. 

A few of my favorites from this spring season were:

• Arugula
• Cherry belle radishes
• Lettuce mix/blends
• Parsley

These all had a short growing season, have low space requirements and were super low maintenance.  You can grow quite the yummy salad in a medium sized container that will fit on the smallest of city balconies.

Now that spring is over we have moved on to our summer crops... more on that very soon.