Welcome to City Dirt, a new blog about urban gardens and their unique needs and challenges. Traditional garden publications often feature large estates in Northern California or New England that make a gardener's pulse race, but alas, many city dwellers have to make due with a fire escape--and hope that no graffiti tagging takes place near their herbs.

This blog will cover topics that impact gardeners living in a city and their unique needs and interests, whether creating wildlife habitat on small terrace gardens, finding the right plants for windswept rooftops or renovating gardens in brownstones and townhouses. We'll also be looking at civic gardening projects that shape cities and new eco-designs that are part of the "green" movement, such as green-roofs, planting with natives and using plants to clean up lead and other metals from the soil.

For discussions on keeping squirrels out of your bulbs, finding the best planters or announcing various garden club events, you can post on our NYC Forum Page. For those of you facing the illness of a beloved plant--indoors or outside-- you can write our Plant Doctor for advice.

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