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Getting Ready to Garden
Editor’s Note: Emma Lam is the owner of A Small Green Space, a local urban design and gardening company. My mother was English and loved gardening. When I was four, we immigrated to Massachusetts and...
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Picking, Preparing and Planting the Perfect Plant
Mother’s Day, our official “safe to plant” date, is right around the corner. And with temps getting warmer and the sun getting brighter people are itching to PLANT something. So how do you figure out...
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City Seedling: On Weeds
“There the sun lighted me to hoe beans … removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown …” from Walden, by Henry David Thoreau. Weeds. Everyone...
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City Seedling: Shameless Plug Time – Butterfly Festival
I wanted to let you all know about a fab event that’s happening this weekend at the Brunswick Community Garden. The garden will be holding its first ever Butterfly Festival on Saturday, August 27 from...
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City Seedling: Who Ate My Pumpkin? Adventures in Pest Management, Part I
I haven’t always had the best luck with vegetables in my community garden plot. There have been disappointing pepper yields, frustrating tomato thefts, and bolting broccoli. This year, I wanted to...
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City Seedling: Who Ate My Pumpkin? Adventures in Pest Management, Part II
When we last saw Emily, she was on the verge of discovering the source of her pumpkin plant’s malaise. Will she find the antidote in time? I was pretty certain that the thing destroying my plant was a...
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City Seedling: The End of Summer
Summer is over. Put away your white sandals and sunblock, because it’s done. Finito. Well, not exactly. It’s over for kids and vacationers, but not for gardeners. Many home tomato crops yield their...
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City Seedling: Flowery Prose
As a book person, I’ve spent many rainy/snowy/humid/icky days inside reading about gardening. As this garden season comes to a close, with the projected first frost date this Saturday, I thought I’d...
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City Seedling: Bedfellows
Editor’s Note: We’re happy to welcome back our blogger Emily Helck. City Seedling is a blog about urban gardening in Jersey City. Enjoy! Ah, spring in the city. The cherry trees are blooming, and then...
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City Seedling: Tomato Poetry
If summer has a taste, it’s a wedge of tomato, still warm from the sun, with a little sprinkle of salt. Pablo Neruda calls this mingling of flavors a “wedding” in his poem “Ode to Tomatoes.” If you...
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