Vegetable Plant Update 5 2009

Looking good right? I'm surprised at every vegetable plants growth pace. I thought I wouldn't have anything else to harvest from the rooftop garden until the 3rd or 4th week of July, but looks like I'll be harvesting cherry tomatoes and hot peppers in a few days. The broccoli plants are immense, I had no idea that they get so large. Only 2 have produced a head, who knows what's going on with the others. Maybe it's too late in the season? I don't have any other plans for that DIY self-watering container so I'll just let them stay there until I feel like pulling them out. Something is once again going on with the cherry tomato plant. More on that in another post.

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Reading Round Up: Fireworks Edition

Newsday gives us a list of July gardening chores.

Examiner.com offers tips to make a pet friendly garden.

Here's a video on ABC on urban farming. I wish they talked more about that vertical garden.

A Huffington Post blogger reacts strongly to another Huffington Post blogger about his post on the White House garden and contaminated soil. The reader comments are also worth a look.

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Vegetable Garden Spotter: the Waterpod

A couple of weeks ago I went to the South Street Seaport and visited the experimental project the Waterpod I mentioned in a previous Reading Round Up. The public wasn't allowed on board, but I didn't feel too bad about that since just watching the barge bob up and down in the water was enough to get me queasy. It's pretty cool, I'm definitely going to visit it again. I kept all the pics at a high resolution so click on each one if you want to get a closer look.

In the above pic I see chard, lettuce, corn maybe.

Some scrawny tomato plants, lettuce, other stuff.

Those big, white vats are part of their water filtration system, but what's growing in the 5 gallon buckets?

My plant id skills do not extend far. What do you see in these pics?

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