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Archive for September 2008

Indian Summer

This post appeared this week on the New York Botanical Garden’s blogsite, “Plant Talk”

(www.nybg.org/wordpress/?p=772).

Two years ago, two men named Eric built a second home. It wasn’t a vacation spot nor was it particularly accommodating for men ...

Indian Summer

One Little Eggplant

This growing season, I’ve started a little project.  It’s called “One Pot Pizza,” and it’s based on both square-foot gardening and, well, a love of pizza.  In my one pot, I planted a tomato plant, an eggplant plant, oregano and basil.

Alas, ...

One Little Eggplant

Bean Season

Come September in New York,  with days alternatively  insufferably hot and anticipatorially cold, only the tough (of our veggies) can survive.  Broccoli’s gone to flower (you can almost hear it shrieking, “Must be pollinated! Must seed!” as the summer sun begins ...

Bean Season

And Another Thing (Tomato Poetry)…

This poem by Robert Paul Smith is my last farewell to this year’s tomatoes.  I found it in one of my favorite books, Farmer John’s Cookbook: The Real Dirt on Vegetables.  It immediately stuck a chord, for me, as a gardener, ...

And Another Thing  (Tomato Poetry)...

Great Grasses

In these long days of Indian summer, we’re often found lying on the lawn.  But I don’t like grass.  I like thyme and clover.  I like tall stands of these zebra grasses.  I also like chamomile, a beautiful herb the Romans ...

Great Grasses
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