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Sep 17, 2010
It’s official: My plants are NYC tough
Amanda Green  Guest Blogger 2010
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-....

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Aug 9, 2010
Surviving the NYC heat
Amanda Green  Guest Blogger 2010
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....

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Jul 6, 2010
It’s a jungle out there
Amanda Green  Guest Blogger 2010
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....

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Jun 23, 2010
Are my plants ‘New York City’ tough?
Amanda Green  Guest Blogger 2010
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....

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Jun 11, 2010
My New York City garden
Amanda Green  Guest Blogger 2010
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....

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