Here’s the feeding trough, so to speak, on the rooftop garden, alternatively called fertilizer alley.  I keep six galvanized garbage cans stocked with the following goodies: fish bone meal (phosphorus), feather meal (nitrogen), greensand (potassium), basalt rock dust, azomite, and kelp meal (minor and trace minerals).  In spring I mix up a “how-do-you-do” combo […]

As a grower, or, as Aristotle would say, even more basically as a knower, I want to have a sense of what is the best or the excellence of any particular thing.  A prize-winning performance from any kind of vegetable or fruit may come from the care and technique in growing it, but there is […]

March is here, the weather is getting milder, and for all early comers the garden is waiting and ready.  Being out in the garden transplanting or seeding at this time of year can feel positively giddy and can lead to the peculiar excess of overplanting.  Here’s how it works for me.  Winter’s grip is relaxing, […]