{"id":3424,"date":"2012-12-20T15:02:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T15:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:48:30","slug":"garden-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2012\/12\/garden-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3427\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3427\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3427\" title=\"Garden - MRO - Garden IMG_0002 (2011)\" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Garden-MRO-Garden-IMG_0002-2011-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Garden-MRO-Garden-IMG_0002-2011-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Garden-MRO-Garden-IMG_0002-2011-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Park and Planning&#8217;s own &#8220;Edenic plot&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"lead\">How strongly do you feel about your front yard? Is it a reflection of you and your family; the landscape equivalent of putting on a clean shirt in the morning?<\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve said before, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=990&amp;action=edit\">rules <\/a>for life in suburbia, some written and many more unwritten. And lately, some of the more obscure written rules about front-yard vegetable gardens are being read and interpreted, not always in favor of cucumbers. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/20\/garden\/gardeners-fight-with-neighbors-and-city-hall-over-their-lawns.html?ref=garden\">this <\/a>New York Times article points out, one neighbor&#8217;s &#8220;suitable&#8221; groundcover is another&#8217;s eyesore.<\/p>\n<p>And as we&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1758&amp;action=edit\">pointed out before<\/a>, there are plenty of personal and community benefits to front-yard\u00a0 vegetable gardens. In fact, some communities, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/20\/garden\/in-santa-monica-calif-gardens-and-gardeners-are-welcome.html?ref=garden\">Santa Monica<\/a>, encourage digging up the lawn for a more food- and environment-friendly landscape.<\/p>\n<p>In Montgomery County, they&#8217;re\u00a0legal by code. Typically, it\u2019s HOA covenants that restrict them.\u00a0One of the progressive pushes we made in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomeryplanning.org\/development\/zoning\/\">Zoning Ordinance rewrite <\/a>is for more forms of urban farming and local food production.<\/p>\n<p>Community Gardens, Farming, Animal Husbandry, and Farm Markets are allowed in all zones \u2013 albeit with some restrictions in the non-Agricultural\/Rural zones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">How strongly do you feel about your front yard? Is it a reflection of you and your family; the landscape equivalent of putting on a clean shirt in the morning?<\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve said before, there are rules for life in suburbia, some written and many more unwritten. And lately, some of the more obscure written rules about front-yard vegetable gardens are being read and interpreted, not always in favor of cucumbers. As this New York Times article points out, one neighbor&#8217;s &#8220;suitable&#8221; groundcover is another&#8217;s eyesore.<\/p>\n<p>And as we&#8217;ve pointed out before, there are plenty of personal and community benefits to front-yard\u00a0 vegetable gardens. In fact, some communities, like Santa Monica, encourage digging up the lawn for a more &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2012\/12\/garden-wars\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,299,63],"tags":[444,213,443],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-places","category-zoning","tag-front-yard-gardens-vegetables","tag-suburban-standards","tag-urban-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11136,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions\/11136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}