Brad Linder's Blog

Spinach wasn’t exactly a bumper crop in my 2011 rooftop garden. I managed to harvest a few tiny leaves by the time the weather started getting warm and killing off my plants. 2012 is turning out to be a much better year. I’d like to take credit for the difference — but I think more […]

There’s been a lot of activity on the rooftop over the past few weeks. The snow peas are growing fast, the garlic is having a party, and the spinach is actually starting to look edible. I also received a belated birthday present of five locally sourced strawberry plants recently. I only had four planters, but […]

It’s been about five days since I planted garlic chive, pepper, and tomato seeds in some indoor planters. Today the first signs of life started showing up in the garlic chive pot. If the little green bits look small in that photo, try the macro view on for size. <img border="0" src="https://i1 vente de viagra […]

It’s been a busy week up on rooftop garden, where all the garlic is strong, the snow peas are good looking and the spinach is… well, a bit below average. When I planted the first cool-weather crops in mid-March, it was unseasonably warm in Philadelphia and I think some of the little guys got a […]

It’s been unseasonably warm in Philadelphia for the past few weeks, so my rooftop garden is already off to a pretty great start. About two weeks ago I soaked some snow peas for a few days to get them ready for planting, and a week and a half ago I turned the soil in the […]

It sounds like a silly idea at first: visiting seven of the most polluted places on the planet and treating them as vacation spots. But from the moment he hits the ground in Chernobyl and as we follow him to Canada, Texas, the Pacific Garbage Patch, Brazil, China, and India, Blackwell is an engaging story […]