All work and no play makes Bonnie a boring blogger (don't feel too sorry for me, though, a lot of it is a pre-vacation scramble to get things done before I head out for what's shaping up to be an excellent vacation) but I did get up to the Union Square Greenmarket yesterday to get a couple more tomato plants, plus a cilantro plant (I hope that grows, I really like a little cilantro here and there, but I don't think I've ever managed to use up an entire bunch from the grocery store), and I got up early this morning to go plant them. Wish I'd had the energy to get up even earlier and go for a pre-work paddle, but even just getting out there to plant and water on the quiet waterside with the birds singing for a little while was nice.
This year's tomatoes: beefsteak (that's the one from Dragonetti's, whose selection wasn't that good this year), and then a black brandywine and Sungold cherry tomatoes (the little orange ones that are like candy, these will be the ones that I just pick and eat when I get back from a paddle, LOVE a little post-paddle garden grazing!) from Union Square. Everything's looking good a week and a half after the kickoff; pole beans, beets, and chard seeds are all sprouting, and the herbs that overwintered are thriving. The basil babies look a little bit peaked, but we had this terrific rainstorm last week and they may just be recovering from taking a bit of a beating, also might be a little cool still for basil, we had that one eighty degree day a couple of weekends ago but then it got back to more standard NYC spring temperatures in the 50's. The peppers and the beefsteak tomato went through the same rainstorm but came through looking good, and then the lavender sprig that I'd planted last year is coming along beautifully - it didn't really do much last year but this year it's got buds already! Glad to see everything coming along so nicely.
Click on any photo for a slideshow view. The flowers are in the planting by the clubhouse door.
This year's tomatoes: beefsteak (that's the one from Dragonetti's, whose selection wasn't that good this year), and then a black brandywine and Sungold cherry tomatoes (the little orange ones that are like candy, these will be the ones that I just pick and eat when I get back from a paddle, LOVE a little post-paddle garden grazing!) from Union Square. Everything's looking good a week and a half after the kickoff; pole beans, beets, and chard seeds are all sprouting, and the herbs that overwintered are thriving. The basil babies look a little bit peaked, but we had this terrific rainstorm last week and they may just be recovering from taking a bit of a beating, also might be a little cool still for basil, we had that one eighty degree day a couple of weekends ago but then it got back to more standard NYC spring temperatures in the 50's. The peppers and the beefsteak tomato went through the same rainstorm but came through looking good, and then the lavender sprig that I'd planted last year is coming along beautifully - it didn't really do much last year but this year it's got buds already! Glad to see everything coming along so nicely.
Click on any photo for a slideshow view. The flowers are in the planting by the clubhouse door.
4 comments:
WE sold our house last year and with it went my garden. So I am all envy at your raised beds and plantings. I have an east-south-facing balcony and will be setting out two tomato plants and a planter filled with herbs. Something's better than nothing. enjoy your sowing and harvesting.
hope everything gets growing ok, should do with a bit of rain. very very dry here, which is unusual.
Having a veggie garden, even a little 4x6 one, was an unexpected benefit of joining the Sebago Canoe Club, being able to garden in NYC is a privilege. Actually it all started with some pots on the windowsill - oh, and a lot of visits to Claire's Garden! Claire, I didn't even remember that your blog was one of the motivating factors, but I went back to look at my first "urban gardening" post and there you were! :D
G.C. - Hope your balcony plantings work out! I think I would do herbs and tomatoes as well if I had to pick just a couple of items. Are there any community gardens in your area? That's sort of how the Sebago gardening works and although there are always the moments when I get up at five thirty in the morning and take the forty minute bus ride to the club to water during a dry spell only to find that somebody had helped out by watering everybody's beds the night before without telling folks that they did, mostly it's great. There are community gardens that are closer to where I live but it is really nice to have the gardening and paddling in the same location.
How exciting to see things growing so well in your garden! I always loved seeing that first little sprout coming up!
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