Poughkeepsie Gothic
We are Emily and Naseer, and we’re both engineers in the computer industry. Since getting married and buying our first home in Poughkeepsie, NY, we’ve developed a deep interest in gardening. Both our parents have decades of experience growing flowers, fruits, vegetables, and raising animals. Combining their advice with our own research–mostly books, the Internet, and friends–this blog chronicles our exploits in the garden.
In our first year of gardening (before this blog), we grew some of the vegetables and herbs that we most like to eat, like tomatoes, squash, peppers, eggplant, basil, parsley, chives, and dill. As of this writing (2010), we’re expanding our garden in size and variety and venturing into fruit trees and berries. Emily is also interested in growing flowers and shrubs, particularly ones that attract hummingbirds, so we’ll be planting more of those as well. Hudson Valley gardening is great because the climate is suitable for a very wide selection of plants, and we intend to explore as much of that as possible in the upcoming years.
We use mostly organic methods, but we don’t lose sleep over it. And when a technological solution presents itself, we’re willing to try it out if we have time–we are geeks, after all. We hope you enjoy reading and learning from this site, and maybe even teaching us a thing or two.
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