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It is Monday after all ...
No MM group for me anymore, so this is my shot for this morning.
My container garden is going really well. I have tomatoes and peppers galore, sweet onions coming up, new celery to plant, and a few more peppers. My avocado tree is wonderful, too.
I experienced what they call food insecurity during the pandemic, too sick to shop, had everything delivered. With supply chain problems then and still, I got scared I couldn't get food, toilet paper, etc. Silly? I don't know, too sick to go into stores. Anyway, I've enjoyed vegetable gardening again. Growing my own food! Second season and the first one was good but a bit of a remembering and learning again curve!
Tomatoes are my favorite veggie to grow. This is a pic of one of last year’s plants. Still a favorite.
Vegetable Garden on Bleecker Street closed in 2005 after being in business since 1974. It was the last of the green grocers which remained in the neighborhood and was owned by John & Abel, who not only carefully hand-selected the items they sold but also knew all of their regular customers by name and warmly greeted them every day.
We took this 35mm film photo in 2001 as part of a panorama of the entire block stretching from Leroy to Carmine Streets, which appears in our book “Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York” and only 1 of the original businesses remains in business in its original location, Rocco’s Pasticceria. Joe’s Pizza which had been located right next door to Vegetable Garden on the corner of Bleecker & Carmine was forced to move after a similar rent increase by the landlord around the corner to Carmine Street, where it thankfully is still operating today.
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Before I microwave-bake a sweet potato, I score its skin, place it in an inch or so of water, crunch a paper towel over it, and place its bowl in the oven to cook first 5 minutes, turn it 90 degrees to cook another 5. The skin comes off in leaves, the flesh could be sliced in nice rings for further embellishment with cinnamon if desired, or shared with my dogs---who also love this vegetable so high in Vitamin A.
This potato had a sprout which I placed in a polycarbonate champagne flute to keep it erect while it rooted. It will grow lush and green as a plant top. Left in water, it does not grow a tuber, just white dense roots to support a lush vining set of leaves. I think planted in the ground it will create its nourishing tubers.
I love the ornamental sweet potato with its chartreuse vines, and they grow fantastic numbers of tubers if left natural. Those are very fibrous, unlike the yam seen here, which is a softer consistency, not so fibrous. I might give the shoot a spot in the garden to do its thing, and perhaps in the fall enjoy its produce.
Catalogue reference: INF 3/96
POSTERS: Food Production: 'Dig for Victory' Artist's signature: Peter Fraser
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These heirloom tomatoes, called "Pink Furry Boar", are some of the prettiest I have ever grown! They are actually slightly fuzzy, like peaches. Wild Boar Farms has some of the coolest tomato varieties around!
It's been a busy morning in the garden. Looks like some fresh salsa and tomato sauce are in order. The temperatures are starting to heat back up so I'll welcome a chance to stay inside and leave the garden to the afternoon sun.
April 13, 2009 Updates worth reading.
For Growing and Education Rather Than Decoration
These sub-irrigation (aka "self-watering") planters are as good as any you can buy, make that better than you can buy...and they're free.
Think of them as "plumbing" for plants rather than decoration. Read much more about how to use and conceal them here.
Made from repurposed (recycled) plastic soda (pop) bottles, they are both functional and educational. You can see exactly how sub-irrigation (capillary action) works as well as the status of the soil and root system.
A 1 liter bottle planter is roughly equivalent to a 4" grower pot, the 2 liter planter close to a 6" grower pot in volume and a 3 liter planter in the range of a 6 to 8" grower pot.
The first step is to remove the label.
Update: I now use a hair dryer, moving it quickly over the label to avoid melting the plastic.
Fill the bottle with very hot water. I heat enough water (not to a boil) on the stove to fill two bottles. Wearing oven mitts, and using a funnel I fill the bottles in the sink. If the water is hot enough, it will almost instantly melt the label adhesive.
Update: Using very hot (not boiling) water heated on the stove, I shrank a 2-liter bottle to about 1-liter size. Amazingly, the bottle was still in perfect proportion and shape. I have a feeling the manufacturers are tinkering with the plastic (probably reducing the wall thickness). I need to do some more water temperature testing and will post the results.
Make a vertical cut with scissors (or a sharp knife) down through the label and it will peel off leaving no label residue other than some of the adhesive. You can easily remove this with Goof Off, Goo Gone or peanut butter.
Note that if the label doesn't peel off easily, the water was not hot enough.
I saw on You Tube the other day that October is the time to plant garlic. I'm not a big user but sometimes add it to my curries, without noticing any difference or improvement. Perhaps I am too restrained. Still, they say it's good for what ails you and I'm all in favour of that. So I extemporised a dibber from a length of scrap wood and planted eight cloves; what's left I will use in the kitchen. Six inches deep, said the You Tuber, to stop the birds from pulling them up. I await developments. Apparently, having once raised the complete plants you have to hang them up in the dry to mature them. The dry stalks and papery covering of the bulbs you buy in the supermarket result from this procedure. The rafters of my garage should be suitable. I used the Minolta Dynax 7000i here. I don't do much 35mm these days, but the Minolta is a fun camera for "messing about" shots such as this and I particularly enjoy the freedom to manually override the autofocus system. The film was Eastman Double-X, said to be a cinematic film re-spooled for 35mm use.