urban gardening -first tomatoes of the season

June 16, 2009

With what seems like 40 days and 40 nights of rain finally coming to an end I was able to take a peek at my 100% organic garden. Urban garden, that is (useless Jeopardy trivia fact: Hoboken, NJ is the 4th most densely populated incorporated area in the US, ahead of NYC). Located in a 7+ hour full sun corner of my apartment’s backyard, the garden thrived last year. In fact, much of the backyard was taken over by virulent tomato plants/beasts that seemingly grew by the hour. Lessons learned:

1. Spread things out a bit more

2. Five tomato plants can provide sustenance for a small country

Anyway, this year’s garden contains thyme, jalapeño peppers, habanero peppers (for all that Jerk and Jamaican cooking), 3 hybrid tomato plants (don’t ask me their ‘official’ names), sweet basil, purple basil, mint, chocolate mint, and zucchini. While things have been a bit slow courtesy of cloudy, cool, and rainy weather, the first tomatoes are at last growing.