Urban Garden Sprouts Up

Seems like everyone is writing (see Lorna Yee’s preview) or talking about Ballard’s new restaurant Bastille. I haven’t been there yet, but am fascinated by reports of their rooftop garden where they are growing vegetables that will turn up on dinner plates. This, of course, mirrors my current obsession with my own little backyard gardening experiment. A few weeks ago, I wrote about this effort, which involved creating a couple of raised beds. Since then, they’ve been planted (lettuce, onions, zucchini, tomatoes, cucumbers, beans and carrots) and I’m already harvesting the lettuce, and plotting a second planting of a few things mid-summer.
I have no doubt that I will not recoup my costs for quite awhile (concrete removal+dumping fees+raised bed materials+plus seed and starter vegetables=around $300), but that’s not the point, right? It’s all about taste and bragging rights: “I grew it myself!”