I always enjoy walking by these tree pits on 145th Street between Lenox and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. They give the block a bit of personality.
Fascinating fact: The maroon awning on the left way in the background of the bottom photo is the headquarters for Al Sharpton's National Action Network.
The world's largest concrete garden gnome (warning: link has a picture of a partially beheaded gnome) stands in silent vigil in the Rieman Gardens on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames. The gnome is a little over 15 feet high, which is taller than the Catskills-dwelling previous record holder. There are rumors of a 17-foot high fiberglass gnome somewhere in Poland.
Alliums. Allia?
About an inch high in central Iowa last week.
My sweet friend Romy gave me a Garden-In-A-Bag Mini-Tomato kit for my birthday last winter. I planted the seeds after being away for a week in June. The instructions said the seeds would take a week or so to germinate and then another sixty days until the tomatoes were ripe. This little plant germinated on time and grew to two inches tall by mid-July.
Then the growing paused.
I kept it fed, watered and in the sun but the plant stubbornly stayed two inches tall. It did not start growing again until the end of August. By the end of September the plant was 9-10 inches high. A tiny flower emerged and soon thereafter a mini-mini-tomato started growing. A couple of days ago the tomato began taking on an orange tint. This weekend I'm going to buy a very small head of lettuce and make a salad!
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