Garden of the Day: Cemetery Views
[nggallery id=”21407″ template=galleryview] And now for a little change of pace: A condo terrace overlooking Green-wood Cemetery…I’m trying to achieve a balance between an outdoor place to entertain and relax and a place to grow vegetables, plants and herbs. My wife is a baker and I cook a lot so we entertain as much as…
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And now for a little change of pace: A condo terrace overlooking Green-wood Cemetery…I’m trying to achieve a balance between an outdoor place to entertain and relax and a place to grow vegetables, plants and herbs. My wife is a baker and I cook a lot so we entertain as much as we can in the summer. I’ve got a wide variety of vegetation out there including tomato plants, peppers, celery, swiss chard, strawberries, peas, beans, cucumbers, lots of lettuces and mustard greens and then every herb under the sun (pun intended there) — sage, chives, chamomile, rosemary etc. etc. It’s amazing how easy it is to sustain a garden on a roof deck, you just need some good soil, lots of light and a nice watering for 5 minutes a day and we don’t really have to worry about pests or weeds in our little ecosystem.
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Is there a pet cemetery section in Green-wood just in case?
I’m worried about your cat. I’m such a nervous nelly I couldn’t handle a balcony.
Correct… This is where Mark Bittman’s outdoor videos were shot. I work at The New York Times and we used our roof deck for the video grill series. Impressive that you recognized that.
Very nice.
I would kill for those views, but living so close to the cemetery would only be done over my girlfriend’s dead body.
the view is very reminiscent of one of mark bittman’s minimalist cooking videos.
Kensington Gal,
Tomato hornworms. Ewwww! Is that what those things are? I was just digging up the bed on my roof that had tomatoes in it last year. I kept coming across all these totally creepy worms deep down in the soil. They were translucent whitish, 1 in. long, with a dark end, lots of legs, all curled up like they were waiting for the season to start so they could eat what I planted there.
I was planning on putting beans and maybe peas in that bed this year and putting my tomatoes in a different one.
Any advice on how to kill them other than picking and throwing them over the edge of the building like I did?
You can attach the container and tree to the pillar if you placed one there. Also just don’t use narrow bottom or pedestal style containers. Use a box style. It won’t tip over.
Take a look at NYT listings for upscale apartments in Manhattan that have outside patio gardens. You’d get some ideas from those photos. And those apts would be more prone to potential lawsuits than you would.
Nice, I’ve wanted to see those views of the cemetery for years and happened to have visited last weekend. So beautiful.