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July 7, 2010 — Breakfast
7/7/10 Breakfast Following days of unrelenting heat and sun, the temperature peaked yesterday at 103. Although the plants did not look stressed, I noticed last night that the most ripe blueberries on...
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July 8, 2010 — Breakfast
7/8/10 — Breakfast Snacked on blueberries during yoga, but decided for separate courses of blackberry and raspberry, to really taste them. Picked the blackberries already completely black, both...
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Fall Colors on the Roof
So far so good. The Alpines in the “Secret Garden” survived the summer. Sedum album ‘Coral Carpet,’ below, puts on a brilliant fall display. The Stewartia, also a risky move for a green roof, seems...
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Spring Surprises
Last year’s broccoli and cauliflower plants were left in the rear beds for winter interest. Who would have known (actually, many of you, I suspect) that these plants would not only survive the winter,...
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Rhubarb!
I have just planted three Rheum rhabarbarum‘Victoria,’ a Rhubarb variety known for its sweet tender stalks, and not generally known as a green roof plant. I am optimistic. They now inhabit the...
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First Berries
June 6 — A happy day, on which the first berries were harvested from the Battery Rooftop Garden: I’m not sure whether these are Fragaria “Sparkle,” “Allstar,” or “Seascape,” but in any case, eaten...
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How to eat blueberries . . .
The answer is one at a time: That’s right. No bowls. No spoons. No popping two in your mouth at once to save time (this is slow food, after all, and who wouldn’t want to extend the exquisite...
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Awesome
In the world of ornamental horticulture, perhaps because of the pervasive influence of our British cousins, etiquette demands a certain reticence when discussing one’s own garden. Pausing with guests...
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Finally, a professional
BRTG hosted an event recently where the sponsor engaged Peter Doyle of Peter Doyle Photography to take photographs. With Peter’s permission I thought I would share some of his work with readers of...
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Sandy
Your correspondent returned to lower Manhattan today, fearing that, like Icarus, he had dared to fly too high, to grow food where nature did not intend, and that he would find his presumption rewarded...
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It’s about time
Mea culpa. Your blogger has no good excuse for his long silence. Here is an update in three parts: fruit, vegetables and horticulture. 1. Fruit Report What a difference a year makes. The...
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Hollywood Comes to the Roof
Well, not exactly Hollywood, but the sort of ultra-low-budget film project that will eventually displace a chunk of big-budget entertainment, as surely as green roofs and urban farms will replace part...
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