It’s time for our monthly review of instructables.com projects by Elyse!  These projects were entered for the “Get in the Garden Contest.”  Taken together, the projects I selected can provide you with food, furniture, and flowers!  First, I would plant a vertical garden.  This instructable is especially useful for city-dwellers who only have a porch or patio to garden on.  It’s easy to grow food from your apartment if you have a south-facing balcony.  Just follow the instructions and grow vertical!

After you start your vegetable garden, create a grass lawn chair so you can sit back and watch it grow!  This project requires hard material such as brick to shape your lawn chair, lots of soil, and sod or grass seed.  The only trouble I see with this chair is keeping it trimmed!  Oh, and watch out for ants in your pants!

And finally, one of my favorite things that I have yet to try – seed bombs!  You’ll have to get up out of your lawn couch for this one…How fun does it sound to throw seed bombs into abandoned city lots and road medians while you are jogging, biking, or driving?  Make a seed bomb and whip it into a location that needs some brightening up – the next time you pass, enjoy your guerilla flower garden!  Don’t forget to be respectful with the placement of your garden.

I’ll be back with more projects in September.  In the meantime, if you find an awesome instructable, please share it with Greenlight! contact[at]greenlightzine[dot]org

Tags: at home, FOOD, get in the garden, grass lawn chair, Instructables, seed bombs, vertical gardens

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