‘Urban Gardening’ Archives
Author: Kristen Published: March 31st, 2010
I’m taking what I learned last year and putting it to good use. Definitely not going to try grow vegetables again, because they need more sun than my fire escape gets. Instead I have four different herbs (lemon balm, spearmint, borage, and parsley) and two flowers my kid picked (Chinese forget-me-nots and Empress of India nasturtiums), all of which are suited for partial shade.
The herb seeds came from Planet Natural , who I really recommend. They have a great selection of heirloom and organic seeds with free shipping when you order just $10 of seeds.
Tags: do more with less, herbs, plants, recycling
Category Green is Gezellig, Urban Gardening |
Author: Kristen Published: August 24th, 2009
Well. Last week was a little crazy.
I got all caught up in this Whole Foods boycott, working on their new blog, and reading something like 50+ strategy emails a day.
The clincher came on Thursday night when I came home from going out to get a tamarind ice (my new favorite thing; I think 2009 will be known as The Summer I Ate Anything Frozen and Tamarind) and found a voicemail from Fox News asking if I would go on their pro- versus anti-boycott Q&A panel. (I declined.)
Add to this ridiculousness a sick kid, then a sick spouse, and then getting sick myself and you can guess throwing out my seemingly dead tomato plant has was last thing on my mind.
Good thing I didn’t. Look here — tiny new baby tomatoes:
And ripe-looking ones, too…
Well, okay, sure — they LOOK good on top…
…but surely it has blossom end rot like all the others that looked ripe?
HOLY HELL AN EDIBLE TOMATO. Look at the flash reflect off that perfect, unblemished skin!
So I ate it. It was not the greatest tomato — a little tart, maybe a bit unripe — but I ate it.
Tomato has died, tomato is risen… tomato will come again? Sacrilicious!
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Category Urban Gardening |
Author: Kristen Published: August 6th, 2009
Remember the lovely wee seedling I brought home and how I fussed over it? And how it turned into a great big beautiful plant?
But then… the blossom end rot came.
Now this:
And so now, I say this with all due sincerity…
UP YOURS, YOU STUPID PIECE OF CRAP PLANT. I’D COME OUT THERE AND KICK YOUR DEAD ASS IF I WASN’T ALREADY AFRAID OF FALLING OFF THE FRIGGING FIRE ESCAPE AS IT IS.
I honestly have no idea what went wrong, but I can only assume something, somehow, went horribly wrong when I added eggshells to the soil to try and stave off further blossom end rot — which totally did not work, because that reddening tomato there STILL has a rotten end. (Oh, and the bean plant? Still merrily chugging along, putting out new blossoms and yielding a handful of beans here and there, happy as can be.)
So. What the hell happened?
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Category Urban Gardening, WTF? |
Author: Kristen Published: July 21st, 2009
I think my tomatoes are developing blossom end rot.
What can I do about it?
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Category Not Gezellig!, Urban Gardening |
Author: Kristen Published: July 9th, 2009
Although that photo is of the very first bean harvest (in its entirety), there have been several others — all of which yielded the same amount. Oh! And this one time? I got two beans at the same time. DOUBLE HARVEST.
Yeah. So far, not really worth making my husband lug home 20 pounds of soil home on the subway.
But! My tomato plant (which is now nearly twice as big as the last time we saw it) is covered in little yellow flowers and even some tiny green tomatoes. If even half the flowers become edible tomatoes, I think this will all have been worth it.
Maybe.
Category Urban Gardening |
