Vegetable Gardens Crop Up in Seattle Parking Strips

Seattle Times:

Last year, the city issued 22 permits for parking-strip gardens. This year, they've issued 52, and that's for hardscaping alone. There's no telling how many people have taken advantage of the new no-permit rules for simple vegetation.

Read the whole story: Seattle Times

Comments

[AngieMom57]

This is such great news...

Monsanto your time in the sun is over in my book.

[TigersEye]

Monsanto brings to mind that fictional company U-North in the movie Michael Clayton.

[dems08]

The exhaust from the cars poisons veggies.

[AngieMom57]

A little sunshine always makes my day ;-)

Now go along and keep playing in traffic.

[TigersEye]

You have a point, growing veggies and herbs next to the car fumes does make me wonder how those fumes affect the plants that they will be consuming.

[retroredux]

maybe-but if you are growing a garden in your front yard, there's that chance as well. I'd say-just make sure to wash the produce throughly before eating?

[AngieMom57]

Do you think that the produce grown in produce rich California is free of car fumes?

What planet do you think your veggies come from?