By Reggie Solomon

• Julie Ann at Jewells in Seattle laments this year’s cool season which is impacting her tomatoes.

• Moonwolf at Guerrilla Gardeners: Now Public captures photos of sunflowers growing under a city sidewalk grate proving gardening can happen in the unlikeliest of places.

• Fern at Life on the Balcony shares advice on how to keep cats from eating plants in your garden.

• Adam at Gardener’s World shares tips on how to build a water feature in a pot for your urban garden.

By Michael Nolan

I was talking to Reggie a few weeks back and he shared one of his personal urban gardening dilemmas.

It made me laugh when I realized that it was one so many people have asked me about.

It is the old scourge of cats in the garden.

Now I know you’re probably laughing at this point, but our furry feline friends have a way of destroying weeks worth of gardening work when they get a bit… let’s say overzealous while they are using our carefully tended and well-dug gardens as their personal litter boxes.

It may just be the occasional gift or it could be much worse, such as Read the rest of this entry »