If you love gardening yet have no spare space to use, a small space garden is a solution. It is also perfect for those who live in spatially limited urban locations. Planning on starting your mini-garden? Read on!

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Living in the city is a major pain for plant enthusiasts. Sure, your apartment can handle a few plants here and there. But when it comes to real gardening, that’s a different story. Or is it?

The problem, sometimes is, we tend to overlook simple solutions that would work. Urban gardening is very much possible. A lot of people have tried it using ingenious hacks that are surprisingly commonsensical. And yes, the possibilities are plenty. You just need to use your imagination and of course, come up with a killer plan.

Be the Man with The Plan(ts)

You need to have a good plan to grow plants. Coming up with a plan for everything that you do is always better than having none. It is plain common sense. And if you wish to explore the possibilities of small space gardening, you need to think ahead. Plan everything.

This means you have to assess the available space that you have. Aside from this, you also need to consider the types of vegetation you fancy to grow in your place. Will these specific plants require bigger space when they mature? What type of growing space does this plant require? You know, these kinds of questions.

Planning also gives you hindsight on what materials could be maximized for urban gardening. Ingenuity is the key. The essence of guerilla agriculture is to create artificial growing areas where space is scarce or not available. Below are simple yet valuable hacks that will make your mini-gardening project successful.

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1. Give ‘Em the Boot!

Do you ever have those rubber rain boots lying somewhere in the house? Do not throw them yet. You can use them as improvised pots for your plants. The cool thing about these types of boots is they are small. This means they won’t take up much space in your apartment. You can place them in the window, the laundry area, or any place in your house.

Also, due to its narrow and horizontal built, rain boots can accommodate more soil space for the roots of plants to grow deep on. It is perfect for plants like tomatoes, carrots, lettuce, spinach, and other greens. You can also attach a string handle on its opening so you can hang them elsewhere.

2. Notes from the Gutter

Gutter gardens are genius options for urban gardeners. In fact, its popularity has been steadily growing among plant enthusiasts in the city. This type of gardening is done by attaching gutters to sun-kissed walls in your space. The idea is to create a gardening area that saves space.

Aside from this spatially sound option, gutter gardens also make your plants bug and animal-proof. Since gutters will be up from the ground, no pesky intruder can ever harm your vegetation. This particular position also eliminates the problem of soaking your plants with too much water. Amazing!

3. Cast Your Pallets

Another superb small space garden hack is the use of pallets. Pallets are usually found on garage sales and industrial waste dumps. This means you can get them cheap or even for nothing. Like what they, one man’s garbage is the other man’s treasure.

So how do you use it for small space gardening? Easy. You just set the pallet vertically. This way it can fir on tight spaces such as balconies and patios. Pallets are perfect for rosemary, basil, and other types of herbs. You can also plant cat grasses on this planter. Versatile, indeed.

4. Yes You Canning Jars

Wall-mounted plant racks are perfect for growing herbs and spices in limited spaces. You can make cheap yet efficient mounted racks from canning jars. This is perfect for those who wish to plant in areas without outdoor gardening options.

Canning jar gardens are better suited for outdoor spaces such as garage walls, fences, balconies, and patios. Apart from these outdoor spaces, a canning jar garden can also fir indoor areas like kitchens and living rooms. Microgreens and herbs are plants that can be grown in this type of urban garden.

5. Kitchen Soup Can for Your Soil

Canned soup. Everybody loves them. They are easy to prepare and taste good too. But we are not here to expound the virtues of instant soup. We’re here for the container that contains it. Soup cans are super cheap gardening materials for urban growers.

Soup cans are compact and easy to modify. You can put them anywhere and paint them in any color for aesthetic purposes. Aside from flowers, you can also grow various types of herbs and spices in soup cans. Tables, roofs, ceilings, poles, fences, or wherever, you also place them anywhere you want in the house. No hassle.

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6. Airing Dirty Laundry Basket

If you got some old laundry baskets in your home, again, don’t discard them yet. You can make laundry basket planters for potatoes, carrots, and similar plants. Aside from being a nice growing container for your plants, it also comes in handy come harvest time.

Designed with holes around it, a laundry basket also works as a default strainer. You can use it to rinse dirt off your harvest. This saves you from the hassle of using a separate colander to clean up your produce during harvest season. Isn’t this cool?

7. Welcome Home Terrarium

Pardon that Metallica reference, but like any song from this great metal band, a terrarium is an epic small space garden option. If you think terrariums are expensive, then you need to remember the title of this article. In fact, you can make use of found materials to create a cheap terrarium.

Things like old spice bowls, fake plastic flowers, sand, and pebbles can be made into a decent DIY terrarium. This affordable planter will put flair to your small space garden without spending a lot of money. You just need to make sure that it is positioned in an area reached by natural lighting.

8. Got Some Balls?

Sometimes, it takes balls to start a small space garden. No really. We are talking about real balls. If you have some old basketballs just lying around the house, make them more useful. Deflate the ball, cut it in half using a knife, and you have an instant pot.

To make your ball pot more durable, you can paint the outer surface with marine epoxy. This will also make it more stable when you put soil in it. Attach strings into it so you can hang it in the window or the patio.

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As you can see, starting your small space garden operation is not that hard. All you need is a bit of imagination and resourcefulness. If there’s a will, there’s a way, right? Happy gardening!

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The General Manager of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), Agustin Carstens, sent a chilling message regarding the future direction of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).  He admits that the banks are planning for “absolute control” over your money using central bank digital currencies.

Pay attention and remain alert and prepared.  It is imperative that we, as human beings, do not allow this kind of slavery to take hold. It is time to start waking people up. They are no longer hiding it. We are staring down the barrel of a dystopian future, one in which there is no escape if they can get the correct protocols in place.

“We don’t know who’s using a $100 bill today and we don’t know who’s using a 1,000 peso bill today. The key difference with the CBDC is the central bank will have absolute control on the rules and regulations that will determine the use of that expression of central bank liability, and also we will have the technology to enforce that,” said Carstens.  If this doesn’t wake people up, nothing will.  This is the goal: permanent slavery. We all know we are slaves now, but if we can’t figure out a way to disallow anyone (banks, military, police, politicians of and flavor, presidents, or elitists) power over us, we are going to be in a lot of trouble. We need to stop imagining these people have a right to own us and rule us and enslave us.



Greg Mannarino has been trying to prepare people for this for a while now.  The inflation and inability of people to be able to buy basic goods and services like food will be an excuse used to usher in the central bank digital dollar. The last lock on our permanent cage. This is it, humanity. If they (the central banks) have absolute control over the money supply, they will have absolute control over the world.

This is not by accident. They are taking ownership of everything, including human beings.



Mannarino points out that as the Federal Reserve calls for more spending, they call for more inflation.  Their goal, as Mannarino often says, is to be the lender and buyer of last resort. They want to own it all. Remember Klaus Schwab’s infamous statement: “You will own nothing, and you will be happy?” That’s because the masters intend to own it all, including us.

Saying the quiet part out loud:
Central banks will control how you spend your money. #Bitcoin fixes pic.twitter.com/jjDLanF2tl

— Bitcoin Archive (@BTC_Archive) July 8, 2021

These sociopaths view us as their property and until we realize that no one is going to save us, we need to save ourselves, we are going to be stuck in this dystopian reality they are constructing around us right now. It’s time to realize you are a free human being. You do not have the right to enslave others through your vote or through force. You also have the right to be free from enslavement by vote or force. We had better start to understand the end game and that if there is a politician in power, they are in on it. No governor or member of law enFORCEment will save you.  They only keep those already in power on their thrones. Wake up. Stop living the lie that you have to be a slave to anyone.

Stay aware of what’s going on. It is imperative we know what they have planned for us so we can at least make an attempt to stop it. One of the best eye-opening books available is The Most Dangerous Superstition, by Larken Rose. 

The primary threat to freedom and justice is not greed, or hatred, or any of the other emotions or human flaws usually blamed for such things. Instead, it is one ubiquitous superstition which infects the minds of people of all races, religions and nationalities, which deceives decent, well-intentioned people into supporting and advocating violence and oppression. Even without making human beings one bit more wise or virtuous, removing that one superstition would remove the vast majority of injustice and suffering from the world. –The Most Dangerous Superstition book description

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The United Kingdom is proposing that those suffering from “long-COVID,” or “lingering problems” after contracting the virus they insist is a pandemic, can be “cured” by getting monthly “vaccines.”  And we all thought they would stop at 3, or maybe do an annual booster. But for some, they could get 12 shots per year.

According to a report by the Daily Mail UK, more than a million Britons are said to be living with lingering problems, from breathlessness to brain fog, and that figure could double by the end of the summer, say experts. So the solution is monthly shots of the experimental gene therapy.  British scientists are set to explore giving long Covid patients monthly doses of the Covid vaccine, in an effort to combat the chronic condition.

The first stage of the study was given the green light on Friday: later this year, 40 long Covid sufferers will be offered at least two extra jabs.

Funding has been offered by several of the major vaccine developers, and if the pilot is successful the scientists involved have been told they can recruit thousands more patients. –Daily Mail UK

Does this make sense to anyone who knows how to read? They have been telling us for months that the vaccines does work. If it is a vaccine (which it’s not) it provides immunity to disease. So why would those who reportedly already had COVID need monthly doses of a “vaccine?” That would mean it’s not a vaccine. It’s a drug or therapy, as we’ve been saying from the beginning.  The “facts” the rulers want us to believe get more and more ridiculous as this COVID scam continues.

Speaking exclusively to The Mail on Sunday, Dr. David Strain, a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Exeter Medical School, who will lead the trial, says the manufacturers are interested in funding the study after early research showed that long Covid symptoms were significantly reduced after patients had a jab.

Dr. Strain said: ‘Many saw a dramatic improvement within days of their jab. Their fatigue disappeared, they were able to walk further without feeling breathless.

“Some said it was the closest to normal they’d felt since they first caught Covid.” –Daily Mail UK

Of course, the manufacturers of the gene therapy shot will fund the study. Imagine their income if they can convince the already “vaccinated” and brainwashed slaves to line up for a monthly dose of whatever is in this stuff.  They sure do censor a lot of information about ingredients and those who ask questions about what’s in it.

“In an earlier study we saw this lasted for about a month after the first dose, but then symptoms return,” said Strain.  “The same pattern was seen when people went for their second jab. We want to find out whether, over time, offering regular doses can make this change permanent.“

Again, then this isn’t a vaccine. Here’s the definition of a vaccine:

a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease. –Oxford Languages

So if they are treating symptoms now, not providing immunities, that would mean this “vaccine” is not a vaccine as those crazy conspiracy theorists already know. So what is it? And why are desperate to get into as many people as possible and convince them to take lifelong boosters?

Don’t worry. There’s still plenty of jabs for everyone! Manufacturers are currently making their second-generation “vaccines”. These will be designed to combat the Delta [Indian] variant, as well as the South Africa variant, allegedly.

We had better get our critical thinking skills perfected.  Something is not right here, and a lot of us know it.  Stay aware of what they are doing.  They admit enough through propaganda but being able to dissect it will take a massive amount of discernment. Stay alert and prepared.  That’s all we can do until the rest of the SHTF.

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Can you imagine what it would be like to not have a home?  For many Americans, this is not something that they need to imagine because it is a daily reality.  Nobody knows for sure how many homeless individuals there are in this country, but recent estimates range from “fewer than 600,000 to more than 1.5 million people”, and everyone agrees that the number has been growing.  Even as the wealthy engage in wild bidding wars over the most desirable properties, more impoverished Americans are being forced into the streets with each passing day.  There has always been homelessness in America, but here in 2021 it is rapidly becoming a crisis of epic proportions.

Ironically, the state with the worst problem is also the wealthiest state in the nation.  At least 160,000 homeless people currently live in California, although many believe that official figure is way too low.  The number of homeless in the state had been rising for years, and then the pandemic came along…

Tent-lined streets with belongings scattered everywhere. Infected wounds with bugs living inside. A man who hasn’t showered in over a decade. An 80-year-old woman who can’t feed herself. People who ride the metro rail lines because the trains are a safer place to sleep.

California’s homeless problem has been out of control for decades. Then came COVID-19.

In many California cities, tent cities have seemingly popped up everywhere these days.  According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the number of tent encampments in San Francisco alone has grown by 70 percent during the pandemic…

Tent encampments are typical sights under freeways and in areas such as skid row – a pocket of downtown Los Angeles known for its vast homeless population – but the pandemic, shutdowns and quarantines caused them to spread across the city. Encampments popped up in parking lots, neighborhood parks and outside schools, not only in Los Angeles but other parts of the state.

In San Francisco alone, tent encampments grew by 70% and became more visible across the city, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

San Francisco is one of the wealthiest cities in the entire world.

If this is happening now, how bad will things get when the U.S. economy really starts to fall apart?

The homelessness crisis continues to grow rapidly on the east coast as well.  In New York City, many have become concerned about the “growing presence” of the homeless in Times Square…

An influx of homeless people into Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood after an emergency move by New York City to ease crowding in shelters has been a fact of pandemic life for the neighborhood since last spring.

Many of the newcomers, living in nearby hotel rooms contracted by the city, have been largely inconspicuous. But others with mental health and drug problems have become a growing presence in Hell’s Kitchen and adjacent Times Square.

Now that the pandemic is fading, many New Yorkers are quite eager to have the homeless removed from Times Square because the tourists are starting to return.

Needless to say, seeing hordes of homeless people laying in the streets is not good for business, and the increase in homelessness has also helped to fuel a dramatic rise in violent crime in the Times Square area…

The police precinct that includes Times Square and many of the hotels has seen a 183 percent spike in felony assaults and 173 percent spike in robberies so far this year compared to 2020, according to NYPD data.

As you can probably imagine, homelessness has been growing in the middle of the country too.

In Dallas, a large homeless camp was recently removed by authorities after local residents loudly complained…

The city of Dallas has removed a homeless camp after nearby residents complained it was putting their health and safety in jeopardy.

While some who called the camp home say they have no place to go, neighbors are grateful the city is finally responding. The sprawling homeless encampment was covered by a canopy of trees and located behind houses along Tres Logos Lane in northeast Dallas.

Nobody wants a homeless camp in their neighborhood, but where are those homeless people supposed to go?

They have to sleep somewhere.

But for now, residents of that particular neighborhood are just thrilled that those homeless people are no longer their problem.  In fact, one local resident told the press that she is so happy that they are gone that she has “chills”…

“I am so excited, I am so happy, I have chills,” said resident Maria Sanchez. “It’s not just the homelessness that we’re talking about, its other individuals that are, you know, doing other illicit activities sketchy activities.”

So what happens if Maria Sanchez loses her current job and starts getting behind on her rent or mortgage payments?

Ultimately, the vast majority of Americans are just a few months away from being homeless themselves.

In fact, now that a nationwide eviction moratorium is ending, we are being told that millions more Americans could soon be forced out into the streets…

MILLIONS of renters face eviction as a nationwide ban is set to end in two weeks.

It comes as 5.7million Americans – nearly 14% of all renters nationwide – had fallen behind on their rent in April.

The study by the National Equity Atlas revealed that tenants owed nearly $20 billion in rent, with low-income people among those worst affected.

So as bad as things are now, they could soon get a whole lot worse.

Can you imagine what that would look like?

Sleeping on the streets is extremely dangerous, and vast numbers of homeless people end up dying.  According to USA Today, more than 1,300 homeless people died in Los Angeles County alone in 2020…

The crisis in California has left a trail of death.

Some come from drug overdoses, violence or untreated illnesses that compound over time. Others come from suicide. These people die under freeways, along sidewalks and in alleys, hospitals and vehicles. More than 1,300 died last year in Los Angeles County alone. An additional 1,200 died the year before that.

During the pandemic, the federal government has borrowed and spent trillions and trillions of dollars, and the Federal Reserve has pumped trillions and trillions of dollars into the financial system, and yet the suffering of those at the bottom of the economic food chain has gotten much, much worse.

Something is very wrong with that picture.

No matter what our leaders do, the homelessness crisis in this country just seems to keep escalating.  Vast numbers of our fellow citizens will be sleeping on the streets tonight, and many more will soon be joining them.

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