Garden: August 2005 Archives

Having and outdoor space is a wonderful thing, but as we only moved into the new abode two months ago, I got a rather late start on planting. This meant I had to take what I could get at Mazzone's True Value on Court Street when it came to tomato plants. When I bought this beauty, it had two small tomatoes already growing, which I took as a sign of a prodigious future harvest. Two months later, it still has only two tomatoes, and rather sadly I think that's going to be the extent of the pickings. At the very least, one of them is red, so we will get to enjoy a very tasty and small, but rewarding, tomato salad. I also planted a lot of herbs (which I have yet to use, I just like looking at them, I know this is weird), which are doing swimmingly except for the one plant that died, oops. Oh, and the pepper plant my sister gave me refuses to grow--at all--it just sits there and sucks up water. This may all sound banal to many an asphalt-loving New Yorker, but the joy of walking out one's back door and stepping onto a concrete patio to survey the plants kept alive by watering amongst the mosquitos can not be underestimated.