Steve's Garden 2015 101
"Bummer In The Summer". Worst year ever in the garden. A botched sewer reconstruction and repaving project in our hood unleashed a plague of voracious rats. While I'm in full-tilt gonzo complaining mode I should also mention that the army of rabbits in the Chelsea finally discovered that my heirloom tomatoes taste way better than the weeds most of us call our "lawns". And I 'll never forget the flocks of ravenous birds that hovered and pecked out the centers of my lovely tomatoes and sweet peppers. It's a miracle that we were left with much of anything to eat but our luckier neighbors were happy to share. Every day we count our blessings that we moved here. I hope everybody on Earth can find their way to a peaceful place like this. As often as we can we put some produce on the curbside table to share with our neighbors and all others who wander down South Chelsea Lane. My 2015 'still life' depicts Italian summer squash, one very big Amana Orange tomato, violin shaped butternut squash, Armenian hard neck garlic Black Cherry tomatoes, Sungold Cherry tomatoes, a heart shaped Romanian tomato grown from seed given to me by a neighbor whose mother hand-carried it from the old country, Thai hot peppers, wrinkly "fish" peppers, sweet Texas purple torpedo onions, red "Cheese" peppers, an orange Hungarian pepper, a delicious yellow onion, German "Lunchbox" red/green mini pear shaped tomatoes, red mini bell peppers. Our goal this year is to save as many of seed types that worked as we can and share them with the neighborhood in the coming years. Almost everything we grow is from organic seed, never any GMOs. That's right, Monsanto, Bayer etc. No GMOs, no pesticides, no herbicides, no chemical factory fertilizers. We never have and we never will. You don't need to dose your garden with chemicals to grow lovely, delicious food for your family and neighbors.
Steve's Garden 2015 101
"Bummer In The Summer". Worst year ever in the garden. A botched sewer reconstruction and repaving project in our hood unleashed a plague of voracious rats. While I'm in full-tilt gonzo complaining mode I should also mention that the army of rabbits in the Chelsea finally discovered that my heirloom tomatoes taste way better than the weeds most of us call our "lawns". And I 'll never forget the flocks of ravenous birds that hovered and pecked out the centers of my lovely tomatoes and sweet peppers. It's a miracle that we were left with much of anything to eat but our luckier neighbors were happy to share. Every day we count our blessings that we moved here. I hope everybody on Earth can find their way to a peaceful place like this. As often as we can we put some produce on the curbside table to share with our neighbors and all others who wander down South Chelsea Lane. My 2015 'still life' depicts Italian summer squash, one very big Amana Orange tomato, violin shaped butternut squash, Armenian hard neck garlic Black Cherry tomatoes, Sungold Cherry tomatoes, a heart shaped Romanian tomato grown from seed given to me by a neighbor whose mother hand-carried it from the old country, Thai hot peppers, wrinkly "fish" peppers, sweet Texas purple torpedo onions, red "Cheese" peppers, an orange Hungarian pepper, a delicious yellow onion, German "Lunchbox" red/green mini pear shaped tomatoes, red mini bell peppers. Our goal this year is to save as many of seed types that worked as we can and share them with the neighborhood in the coming years. Almost everything we grow is from organic seed, never any GMOs. That's right, Monsanto, Bayer etc. No GMOs, no pesticides, no herbicides, no chemical factory fertilizers. We never have and we never will. You don't need to dose your garden with chemicals to grow lovely, delicious food for your family and neighbors.