2018 gardening season!!!

[sour_grapes]

Lovely garden! I know this is besides the point, but I hadn't really seen a picture of the new Comcast building. Thanks for sharing!

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[pgentile]

Lovely garden! I know this is besides the point, but I hadn't really seen a picture of the new Comcast building. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks. You mean that giant router? It's amazing how the skyline has grown and changed over the past 20 years. I'll take a wide angle shot from the roof one these days, but the new buildings that have been built across the Schuylkill river near U of P put the skyline off balance. It has lost it's Feng Shui from my Southern perspective. It's probably better from the east side of Broad these days.

 

[sour_grapes]

Thanks. You mean that giant router?

I was confused, because I thought you meant this:

Not this:

It's amazing how the skyline has grown and changed over the past 20 years. I'll take a wide angle shot from the roof one these days, but the new buildings that have been built across the Schuylkill river near U of P put the skyline off balance. It has lost it's Feng Shui from my Southern perspective. It's probably better from the east side of Broad these days.

It sure has grown and changed a lot in those years. Going back 40 years instead of 20, well, IMHO thank goodness for Liberty Place's breaking the "gentleman's agreement" that all buildings be shorter than City Hall. I used to say that the skyline was what you would get if you took a "normal" skyline for a city of that size, and then took a hedge trimmer to it. All the buildings were approximately the same size.

Thanks for the offer. I would love to see such a shot someday.

 

[pgentile]

I was confused, because I thought you meant this

I should have said "Wireless Network Router". I live in an IT world and I forgot that almost all tech lingo has a different meaning in the non virtual world.

It sure has grown and changed a lot in those years. Going back 40 years instead of 20, well, IMHO thank goodness for Liberty Place's breaking the "gentleman's agreement" that all buildings be shorter than City Hall. I used to say that the skyline was what you would get if you took a "normal" skyline for a city of that size, and then took a hedge trimmer to it. All the buildings were approximately the same size.
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I moved to Philly around the time the Liberty buildings were built. Breaking the 'gentlemen's agreement" was necessary for Philly to grow up and become a modern city.

 

[sour_grapes]

I moved to Philly around the time the Liberty buildings were built. Breaking the 'gentlemen's agreement" was necessary for Philly to grow up and become a modern city.

Here is an article "from the time machine" that I came across due to this thread that you may enjoy: https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/24/...-carves-out-a-new-skyline.html?pagewanted=all

 

[Johnd]

My moms tending my garden while I’m on vacation, at peak harvest time, said she’s picked dozens of creoles, 2 gallons of cherries, and several dozen cucumbers, a few squash, and more pole beans than she can eat. Can’t wait to get home.

 

[balatonwine]

A photo of my three sisters garden this year:

More photos at my blog. Or you can lose up to 3:28 minutes of your life by watching the video :

 

[GreenEnvy22]

Coming along well here.



Figs, apple tree, and then the garden and grapes in the back.


Pear trees


New Muscat vines, not sure these will do wo well with all the shade.


Raspberries, blackberries, currants, blueberries:


Some table grapes I don't know the variety of yet, but doing very well:


Rows of Muscat I added


Muscat on the trellis:


Row of Riesling I added:

 

[GreenEnvy22]

Tomatillo, onions, melons, sunflowes, squash:

Tomatoes:

Beets, Strawberries, sunflowers, rhubarb.

Cucumbers, and herbs in behind:

Potatoes, sunflowers, lettuce, kale, swiss chard:

Green and Red Peppers, Jalapeno, Tabasco, Ghost peppers, garlic, leeks, potatoes, cilantro/coriander, couple tomatoes that came up from last years droppings:

Zucchini, green and yellow beans (beans were damaged a lot by pill bugs, so behind)


Carrots, cabbage (cabbage damaged by pill bugs, lost several plants):

 

[ibglowin]

Dang all I can say is............

 

[balatonwine]

Updated walk through (from above) of my three sisters garden.

 

[balatonwine]

Garden season is winding down. But still some interesting things to show. And the upcoming fall harvest this month should be fun.