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Sundown, October. It always does this. More boxes have been packed. We are down to one pot and one pan in the kitchen.

I have been dismantling the roof farm. Many plastic pots will stay behind, to be adopted from the sidewalk. I collected pear tom...

The haul, yesterday evening. Plus martini with pickled field garlic, from springtime in Inwood . It was chilly on the roof, in a strong b...

It was about the size of my hand, fingers outstretched. It was one of two squash plants in a pot, only one of which had set fruit. The p...

Photo: Vincent Mounier I sowed them from seed collected from the Cape gooseberries that grow in the pots next to the swimming pool...

Around 6 o' clock last evening I went up to water the farm, and to pick some eggplants (I still want to call them aubergines) for our...

It was cool for the first time, last night. We took our supper up there - a chicken, a salad, some bread, and ate it with the earlier sun...

Distracted by other things, I had not shopped for supper by the time supper time rolled around. Our supplies yielded the tail end of a st...

To recap: the roof farm was planted late. Mid July. And I tucked these seeds in last, as an afterthought. Persian cucumbers , the kind I ...

Name of my new band. This is the rose I moved to the roof so it could live out its last days. But then it refused to die. The amaranth ...

Galinsoga parviflora I have discovered a weed newly edible to me, despite being a familiar gardening enemy up on the farm: quickwe...

Before the farm , there was one tomato plant: an heirloom Mexican cherry tomato. I planted it on the terrace, in the sunniest corner, and...

These are easy. Sprinkle sunflower seeds into some nice potting soil, cover lightly, water, and wait a few days. Mine are on the roof, bu...

Bitter Lemon and Pimms, with lime and terrace mint. And ice. Lots of ice. The Pimms has not been touched since last year. Thus armed, I...

 Photos: Vincent Mounier, newly fledged gardener ...apparently more than one man can eat. So I suggested that The Frenchman freeze the ...

Fruit photos snapped by: The Frenchman , on his tour of duty yesterday ...on the roof farm above Henry Street... Although every time ...