*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Cheyanne Lovellette of St. Louis’ Fox Park neighborhood uses the long sidewalk strip of land outside her home to grow veggies, ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

Hellstrip gardens are just what they sound like: A little swath of earth that’s not the easiest to plan or plant. Coined by horticulturist and author Lauren Springer Ogden in the 1990s, the term ...

If you’ve never had to apply the word “hellstrip” to a section of your yard, consider yourself fortunate. The term was coined for land next to the road where nothing will grow, except perhaps ...

Urban vegetable gardening is not always pretty. If picture-perfect curb appeal is crucial to you, a “hellstrip” veggie plot probably isn’t in your future. But if you don’t mind some raised eyebrows ...

Hellstrips, challenging areas between sidewalks and streets, can be transformed into neat gardens with the right ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the beginning of August, one Instagrammer showed the internet what a smart gardener can do with the narrow strip of grass by ...

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