Remember how Inés built the frame of her 1×1 m square Diamond Garden box? Apart from the practical feature that she put her garden on wheels to be able to move it around in her patio, she had two further issues she wanted to address: providing a drainage system to avoid “flooding” her plants and […]
Posted by admin on 04.08.2010 at 2:40 am// Tagged: Diamond Finds, Mixed Cultivation, Sparkling Diamonds , 1x1 Diamond, Germany, How to build a box, Terrace Garden
The terrace of Inés Kohlmeyer`s flat in south-west Germany is ideally situated for gardening: direct access to water from the flat, nice and sunny, but also protected from too much direct sun and cold winds. In 2009, she and her friend Wilma took on the project of building a square Diamond Garden in a 1×1 […]
Posted by admin on 03.18.2010 at 5:38 am// Tagged: Diamond Finds, Mixed Cultivation, Sparkling Diamonds , 1x1 Diamond, How to build a box, Patio Garden, Terrace Garden
A garden? – A Diamond Garden? – At our place? – When those questions arose, I found many reasons to give up on the idea. The most obvious one: How should we have a garden, living as we do, right in the middle of a big city in Germany, in a rented apartment on the […]
Posted by admin on 02.08.2010 at 8:53 am// Tagged: Diamond Finds, Mixed Cultivation, Sparkling Diamonds , 1x1 Diamond, Balcony Garden, Diamond Gardening with kids, Germany, The Spirit