This summer, the NYC weather patterns fluctuated as dramatically as Lady Gaga's wardrobe. One day it would be scorching hot, followed by jungle monsoon time, and now the city's enjoying that we-can-call-this-fall-maybe stage. On any given week, two of these patterns will present themselves. Sometimes it occurs in the same schizophrenic sort of day. New Yorkers will....

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The NYC heatwave has been hard on everyone and everything this summer, and fire escape vegetable gardens are no exception. I wouldn't say I've been remiss in blogging so much as I've been oh, trying to keep my plants from giving up on life completely.

Alas, a frozen margarita or ice cream from the Mister Softee truck isn't enough to keep a tomato plant going....

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The lack of apartment space in NYC is something I've had to get used to in the nearly five years I've lived here. It's the reason I have to keep my off-season wardrobe in a trunk that smells mysteriously of graham crackers. It's why I stopped buying books, and consider buying two items at once a bulk purchase. It's why I don't have pets.

It's also why my fire....

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They say if you can make it here in New York, you can make it anywhere. If you're a plant that can stay alive under my watch, it's the same thing. You're one of the strong, or maybe the realistically synthetic.

Not even a week after setting up my fire escape garden, I had to go to London for work. A cautious plant owner would've called for reinforcements, like....

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When Burpee Home Gardens contacted me to ask if I'd be interested in blogging about gardening, I was pretty sure they'd reached out to the wrong person. I live in a one-bedroom apartment in New York City. Central Park is as close to a garden as I get. And even though I live very close to it, I have nothing....

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