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What is 66 Square Feet About? It's about gardening in tight spaces. It's about how to live in a tiny apartment with a tiny terrace. It's about friends, and inspiration and blackspot on the roses. It's about food and cooking over an open flame. It's about wine. And water. And watering...And picnics. It's about Brooklyn. And South Africa. It's about seasons without and within. It's about where I go and what I come back to: a terrace twelve-and-a-half by five-and-a-half feet wide.
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Super Post Panamax Cranes
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October 2008One of the best things about having access to the roof of our building, is the view over New York Harbour.August 2009We see Governor's Island, and the constant shipping and boating activity on the fabled waterway. We also see the huge white monolith - floodlit at night for some bizarre reason - that sucks out emissions from the tunnel that connects Lower Manhattan with Red Hook in Brooklyn. And superimposed on all this, we see my beloved super post panamax cranes, or, as I prefer...
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
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Eastern Tiger SwallowtailNo matter how many times I see this gorgeous butterfly it never fails me stop me in my tracks. It is as wide as my hand, outstretched, and on this day last month it was suspended in flight in the native garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The way it few seemed different from the anxious, restless hither and thither of the Black Swallowtails that have been visiting my terrace. It flew as though it were a leaf floating on a soft updraft, in slight puffs, then a...
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G & T
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Even though it is September, it took me till the end of August to invest in some gin. So my first G&T's of the northern hemisphere summer came late in the season. It was a combination of caterpillar stress and the power of suggestion - thank you, Melanie. All that talk in your comments of peach gin fizzes got me riled up.The cucuzza is still flowering beautifully and I have three of the gourds/squash growing. Two shriveled up, probably too hot on the roof. I'll be going up to check for...
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SA Blog Awards 2010 - is anybody out there'
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In an email I wrote to the SA Blog Awards this morning I said that I would wait 24 hours before posting about my frustrating experience in the last 14 hours with the Awards. That would give them time to respond to my second email to them. However a comment on (the Food) next door has pre-empted that post so I should explain:By chance last night (already the 1st of September in SA) I noticed that a visitor to (the Food) had come from the Awards website, where finalists were to be posted today....
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Tobacco hornworms +Armageddon
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I went back up there today. I went armed.I wanted to see how much of a plant the Tobacco hornworm monster could actually demolish overnight.The answer is, A lot.And...there were more: three of them. Two on my black cherry tomato and one of my yellow pear.One had its face in a tomato.Beside them, my slowly ripening patio tomatoes...I could not watch anymore.I don't want to talk about it. Ok, I will. Yes, I snipped the first one. It's your fault, Frank. That was awful. Horrible. So I cut the bare...
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SABlog Awards 2010 back on track
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After the fiasco of having (the Food) blog, instead of this one, listed as a finalist for Best Photography and Best Overseas blogs, the error has been corrected, 24 hours and many emails later.I most recently sent them a link to the post I wrote about the issue, and the response received this evening from "SABlogAwards" was:Hi Marie We have modified the spelling on you blog to show the correct blog. Your patience is appreciated. Best Regards SA Blog AwardsThank you!No apology. But I am...
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August: Look back in hunger
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The hottest, muggiest New York month is ending on a hot, muggy note.Here's a look at some of what we ate at summer's height.A good month for baking. The super-simple muffins...Nigel Slater's it-doesn't-get-better-than-this almond and peach cake. I made it three times.The sweetest, most clear, most juicy white farmers' market peaches, splashed with cold prosecco.Ratatouille, employing all roof farm crops:And lamb chops, not from the roof farm. But we can dream, can't we'More lamb, roasted on...
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Biodiversity Blog
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Aandblommetjies [evening flowers]. Photo: Marijke HonigOn the subject of biodiversity (it is the Year Of...) my friend Marijke Honig ('Maraykuh' to all you non-Dutchies - Marijke's family is Dutch, as opposed to Afrikaans...here endeth the lesson) has started a blog on the subject, the Biodiversity Blog, kicking off with her involvement in the design and implementation of the Biodiversity Garden, situated on the old Green Point Common near the new stadium in Green Point, Cape Town.
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Biodiversity
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Living together in harmony'I wasn't sure how she was able to fly with her load of pollen.ID still needed. Will post on BugGuideIs it all because of the exotic and invasive and beautiful Verbena bonariensis?The last week has seen unprecedented butterfly activity on the terrace, and the verbena is where they hang. A few years ago I designed a garden for a Park Slope rooftop where we planted New York ironweed (Vernonia novaboracensis) as a native alternative (although it is far too robust to be...
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Roof farm getaway
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If you can't get away to the beach......you have to use a little imagination, as our neighbor Danielle does, on her roof next door.Nothing like the silvertop of Brooklyn roof to conjure up images of silver sands......or a weekend in the country, for that matter, Away From it All.We know what we have.And we are lucky.
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