Ye olde humble staw bale….once the province of the barnyard animals, but now shifting toward housing and gardening uses. Some years ago I used to walk past a construction site in my neighborhood where, after the work was completed, a couple straw bales got left behind on the neighboring empty lot. I eyed those bales […]
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Exciting, new rooftop introduction
Part of my job, so it seems to me, is to be a novelty agent on the Noble Rot rooftop garden. Sometimes that involves being an agent provocateur as I slyly disregard my chef’s wishes and plant what I think should be planted, and sometimes it is merely being an agent of change, a scourer […]
No More Tomato Cages!
I’m not sure why I do it. Every year, for some reason or another, I wind up using those flimsy, conical tomato cages as supports for my tomato plants, and every year, by mid-season, I am cursing the floppy, insubstantial things, swearing I won’t set another one in the ground ever again. You know what they look like: […]