18.05.12

Last summer, Dessberg constructed a a bit novel garden in his front yard along Phillippi Creek off Bee Ridge Road in Sarasota.

He cut notches in 450, 4-gallon pinchbeck buckets, filled them with compost, then stacked them four high to form a low be ruined. Each pot contains at least four plants and is watered 3-4 minutes a day with a soaker hose.

Voila! In a properly small space, Dessberg now grows cabbage, lemongrass, basil, chard, broccoli, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, mustard, arugula, mizuna, miracle fruit and more.

"People eat at habitation," he says. "What's more convenient than having a huge farm right out your front door?

"And the actual surprise? In the few hours of time I spent putting everything together, I met more neighbors than I have in 30 years."

Dessberg also got to intersect the nice folks from Sarasota County code enforcement, who, after an anonymous kick, left him a notice identifying his garden as a public nuisance.

The accepted language cited him for "improper outdoor storage," a rather vague pandect catch-all that does not mention container gardening but alludes to a term that "tends to decrease the value of neighboring properties.

Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune

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