Today's bounty & a start

Today I collected one small cucumber, a bunch of blueberries, and a lot of basil from my garden. You may not guess that I live in Brooklyn, NY.

I'm not an expert, but I've read a lot of books on urban gardening and would like to share with you my successes...and failures...at having homegrown grub here in the metropolis of New York.

My first photo of bounty!

More photos of things that I am growing...


Blueberries began to ripen about the 3rd week in June. The trick to getting a maximum yield of blueberries is to have more than one kind of bush in your garden- they need to cross pollinate! Wish I'd read that the first year we had our bush. I'm pretty sure this is a Bluecrop bush... and we just added a Bountiful Blue next to it which is much smaller.

Chocolate mint to be frozen. This mint is so delicious on desserts and in cocktails. Easy to grow, although I recommend growing it in a pot separate from your other herbs and plants...mint takes over a pot easily and will crowd out other plants. Likes part shade - full sun and consistent moisture. I have a very sunny terrace so I water frequently and will put a plastic dish under this pot to collect and hold water during the driest Summer months.

This is our Husky Red Cherry tomato plant! These are large cherry tomatoes. I just ate my first one off the vine and it was soooo good.

This is an Early Girl tomato plant that has TONS of green tomatoes on the vine.

We have a dwarf lime tree, and have had it for two years with little to no success at producing limes...we re-potted it about a month ago into a 20-gallon galvanized steel trash can, added compost and fresh soil... and here comes the largest lime we've seen yet!

I love roses. This bush I trim back severely in the Fall and compost in the Spring...my reward!

Ripened fresh blueberries are hard to beat.