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The article offers tips for homeowners on how to create an urban oasis. It discusses ideas on how to overcome and manage poor layout, size and other challenges involved in developing an urban garden design, citing the Park Slope owned by Samira Kawash and Roger Cooper. It also offers techniques for homeowners on how to make the most of their space.

The article provides a correction to an article on urban gardening in Germany which appeared as an opinion piece in the Friday August 10, 2018 issue regarding the conversion of square meters to square yards.

The article describes the impact of gentrification on urban gardening in Germany, particularly the Kleingärten or small gardens used for noncommercial subsistence gardening and recreation.

The article profiles Ron Finley of Los Angeles (LA), California, who promotes gardening in low-income neighborhoods through his volunteer organization LA Green Grounds. It discusses how Finley's lecture during the 2013 TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) ideas conference has increased support of his project from celebrities such as actress Rashida Jones, talk show host Carson Daly, and chef Alice Waters. Details are included on Finley's organic vegetable gardens and efforts to repurpose land and materials for gardening.

The article discusses garden centers and plant nurseries in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. In 2007, three new gardening centers have opened in the area, including Chelsea Garden Center, Gowanus Nursery, and Liberty Sunset. The shops feature unusual plants that are adapted to growing in the city.

The article reports on a 2.5 acre garden which is located at the Coliseum Park Apartment Complex on Ninth Avenue in New York. The garden and apartment complex were both created in 1957. By 2003, the garden, built over a parking garage, was in need of redesign and repair. Landscape designer Laurie B. Eichengreen was called. She came and commenced the modernization and repair of the garden and courtyard which surrounds it. Her work, while not understood or appreciated by all residents, continues today.

The article focuses on the insights of photographer Betsy Pinover Schiff regarding the green gardens in New York City such as the Jefferson Market Garden.

The article focuses on the initiative of the New York City government wherein thousands of garden plots are installed throughout the city to absorb rainfall that would otherwise go to the combined sewer system which can overflow during heavy rains.

FRANK MEUSCHKE'S garden, which surrounds the house he rents in Brooklyn, is a bountiful source of tomatoes, snap peas, green beans, peppers, lettuce and multiple varieties of flowers. It is also, as he recently discovered to his dismay, a rich repository of lead. He had his soil tested last month, and the analysis showed more than nine times the amount of lead expected to occur naturally. Mr. Meuschke, an artist who specializes in landscape paintings, is well aware of the dangers of lead paint. ''You know not to eat while you paint,'' he said. And he had suspected that paint scraped off houses in his neighborhood might have left lead residue in the soil over the years. ''But I really didn't expect there to be that much,'' he said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents questions and answers about gardening. Compares celery root or celeriac and celery stalks and how to grow them. Suggests planting an arbor with a roof angled slightly upward away from a neighboring tall building to provide privacy and to admit light to a small urban courtyard garden.

Features the courtyard garden of couple Kim Flodin and her husband Farhan Ali in their residence in New York City that was redesigned after it was hemmed in by a commercial neighbor's unsightly wall.

States New York City's housing agency will take control of city-owned vacant lots that have been used for gardens. The Department of Housing Preservation and Development hoping to find developers for low- and moderate-income housing on the sites; Those affected by the takeover in New York; The reaction of gardeners and environmental groups, such as the Neighborhood Open Spaces Coalition.