American Free Press Interviews Julie Bass on Her Victory Garden And Legal Victory

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There is something positively revolutionary about having a victory garden growing in the front yard.
I think growing a victory garden is a sublime form of protest, of peaceful civil disobedience that great leaders like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. would embrace.
Dear Julia, from your modest little victory garden of peppers, tomatoes, and cucumbers has sprung a global tree bearing the fruit of liberty.
This may sound redundant and a bit "corny", but here it goes - "Long Live Permaculture!"

And it's interesting to note that her garden is one of the few live "lawns" on the street.

gardeners in cities everywhere.

I've been wondering how I could manage to sneak more vegetables into my front yard (where I have a Southern exposure which is the best for a lot of gardening).

On a walk in an area not far from my neighborhood I noticed a number of tall sunflower plants in the front of a yard. On a second look, I realized that they were a clever sort of natural fence for a wonderful front-yard vegetable garden (in raised beds like Julies').

Maybe next year . . . . . The vegetables were doing quite well.

Big broccoli leaves provide shade and cover for lettuces. Stately eggplant, w/ their soft purple blossoms and deep purple veining in their hunter green leaves offer a grace to the landscape. My potatoes, this year, look like a backdrop of shrubs.

How do you control cabbage moths?

I planted cabbage one year and have had cabbage moths ever since. I have wondered whether it is because the moth population is not thinned by a tough winter.

Your garden sounds beautiful.

I think the pepper plants are especially beautiful. Tomato plants, not so much. I have seen people use peas as decorative plants in their front yards, and I will probably try that next year.

to you cabbage moth problem. I was vexed by earwigs one year. They were in everything. I'd steam artichokes (another amazing landscaping point of interest) only to find steamed earwigs as I pulled leaves off. I had a bumper crop that year but was afraid to give any away because of them. I finally googled 'life cycle of earwigs' to see what I could do to disrupt their comfort zone. A drop or two of dish detergent in a quart spray bottle took care of that problem.

Find out where the larva overwinters; what the eggs look like; any natural predators. If the larva overwinter in the soil, they can probably be treated w/ BT. I only grow broccoli and brussels sprouts. For some reason the cabbage moth has not found my garden though I have seen them flitter among neighbor's efforts.