On June 7th, 2013, BEET ARRIVALS…
…from the vegetable garden on my underground garage (where they are safe from the burrowing creatures that can devour an entire garden in days) are the satisfying culmination…
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On May 4th, 2012, VEG ON THE ROOF…
…in their crowded bed – lovingly raked, graded, laid out, and sprinkled with compost just this winter – is dusty green, bright green, lettuce green, strawberry green, onion…
On May 3rd, 2012, TRIANGLE FRAMED PINE TREE…
…out the geodesic dome window from bed this morning is reminding me of Italian days.
On May 1st, 2012, PEAS, PEAS, PEAS…
…yes, yes, yes.
On April 28th, 2012, A ROOFTOP GARDEN REPORT…
…while looking back at January 16, March 2, and April 7th updates gives me new appreciation for the speed of dirt to wild native fields and dense veg…
On April 27th, 2012, CARDOONS…
…or Cynara cardunculus, are found wildly making their way all over my L.A. hill, and I do my best to encourage their big-leaved purple-thistle-flowered towering drama – and one…
On April 26th, 2012, JUPITER’S BEARD…
…or Centranthus ruber, has been creeping around the gardens here for years, looking great and flowering and continually coming back with little encouragement or even a drop of…
On March 16th, BACKYARD ARCHEOLOGY…
…replaced gardening this morning as I was reconfiguring the back corner of the garden, moving dirt around, re-grading, making a new terraced area on the site of what…
On March 15th, 2012, GARDEN RUBBLE SCULPTURE…
…from London via Human Resources (where the rest of the pieces were ceremoniously trashed and trampled) were placed in their new home today (the long abandoned, recently refurbished…
On March 10th, 2012, THE LATE WINTER LOQUAT…
…that under-rated Chinese fruit is starting to turn soft and yellow on the tree hidden at the top of the garden (planted in 2006, originally part of the…
On February 4th, 2012, BUDDING GRAPE VINES…
…(which I have been training around the house for the past 11 years) are a sign that we have entered the back side of winter, the surprising reminder…
On February 3rd, 2012, THAT SHOWY PEACH TREE…
…on the street in front of my house was probably resigned to remaining forever lost in the massive shadow of the looming carob tree to it’s south –…
On January 30th, 2012, CAROB TREE STOOLS…
…pieces of the trunk cut to 18 inch units lining a new primitive 20 foot long table in the garden are the legacy of my fallen tree –…
On January 22nd, 2012, A CEDAR SOAKING TUB…
…and outdoor shower which I had been scheming for years to place in this strange previously unoccupied corner of the house overlooking the garden – was finally just…
On September 20th, 2011, PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURE SOCIETY…
…volunteers tend the recreated typical 18th century Philadelphia garden that I passed by this afternoon (on my way to the Apple Store for an emergency laptop battery procedure…
On June 29th, 2011, CUCUMBERS…
…cetrioli, (two of them) are busting out, pumping up daily, from those vines creeping up the rebar structures that I installed months ago – finally, finally being put…
On April 20th, 2011, RSFP ROOFTOP SALAD HARVEST…
…was a proud moment today, as Miles from the Rome Sustainable Food Project kitchen – which energizes us with daily meals of local, seasonal, organic and delicious food…
On April 19th, 2011, YOGA ON THE ROOF…
…today and frequent evenings around 17:30 is the great gift of warmer days, later sun sets, stone pavers that hold the days heat, and a critical mass of…
On January 5th, 2011, THE WORM REPORT…
…is good, they are devouring my kitchen scraps (about 3 pounds a week), turning it into sweet smelling fertile black-gold worm casting compost, and reproducing like crazy (lots…
On December 18th, 2010, A WARM GARDEN BUBBLE…
…has been created in my East studio window this morning, providing a new winter retreat for my rooftop plant refugees as sub-freezing temperatures arrive in Rome evidenced by…