NYC Gardener

I came home from Memorial Day weekend to an explosion of arugula. With so much to harvest, a pesto made perfect sense. I planted arugula ...

Our garden is up and running again, though this season  we were lazy urban farmers. We chose to buy tomato seedlings instead of growing them...

I didn't grow these ramps in my garden - they were farm fresh from the Union Square Green Market. The recipe, however, is my own. Stir-f...

On this glorious spring-like day, my hyacinths couldn't resist poking their heads out of the dirt to greet the sun. This green shoot...

Sure it's frigid outside, but in my home this blooming orchid reminds me that spring will be here soon. Every year around this time, the...

The party's over. Once again, our garden is ready for a long sleep. I've plucked the last tomatoes from the vines and though I see a...

This was the best tomato season we've had in three years, though still not as bountiful as in seasons past. We lost our Brandywine plant...

I've written many posts since we started growing blueberries four years ago complaining about Mockingbirds that view our bushes as as n...

Sometimes, rather than bucolic idylls, gardens can be horror shows. Like when you discover squishy white aphids all over your beautiful Japa...

In a recent post I said our late season tomatoes tasted good , even though they looked bad. But that's before I picked a few that weren...