Merry Christmas from Bangkok! (Yesterday, we visited the zoo...)
Month: December 2013
In From the Cold
Our bathtub is full every day in summer, but now all there is inside it is a bunch of peach leaves. There is snow on the mountaintops and the temperatures in the garden have dropped to a cool 40 F in the sun. This may sound warm, but the lemongrass doesn't think so! It's that …
Still imagining
A few weeks ago Ali and I were sitting on the terrace having coffee. "There's a poem called "The Day Lou Reed Died" in the new New Yorker," said Ali and I snorted derisively. Then I felt like a jerk. Setting aside the fact that I was attempting to look down on someone who'd published …
Ripening tomatoes
Of course, ripening is ideally not the kind of thing that you have to do to your fruits, but sometimes needs must! I was a little on the late side planting out my tomatoes this year, which is a grave error since if the plants don't get big enough before the heat sets in they …
Reading material
It's December again -- how did that happen? Once the dust had settled after Thanksgiving, I pulled out the Christmas ornaments and the artificial tree ("Next year, let's have a real tree!" said Baki). I can't help but stop and take stock all that's happened over the past year. This time last year, we were …
Garden Correspondent 