Summer Produce


We’ve been steadily harvesting from our fire escape garden over the past month: tomatoes every week, a handful of strawberries, a big bunch of chard. It’s not exactly satiable amounts, but freshly-picked produce that we grew ourselves just tastes better than store-bought, or even what we get from the CSA.


My mom was also a DREAM mom this week and shipped us plums from California. We have a tree in our backyard there that I eat off of all summer. This is the first summer I won’t be going home, so it was so nice to get a shoebox filled with them.

Phone photo of the tree via mom (who knows how to take phone pix and text now!)
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oh man. vegetables and container plants are number one on my list of ‘what i will have when i escape capitol hill studio with *no* (yes, NO) space anywhere for plants’. how do you keep everything that you touch from dying? because this seems to happen to me a lot. i love plants, but i think i’ve got the black thumb or something… i lived on an organic farm with my father (who still works/lives there) for three years and so everyone i know assumes i can garden. i just picked the vegetables and ate them! ditto on almost anything that is done by oneself being wonderfully better, so very true, esp with clothing and medicine. power to the vegetable people!
Such lovely photos, I love the way you arrange your fruit, especially the hanging plums! Your fire escape garden sounds amazing!