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Posting about food, books, our dog Boo Radley, and NYCFC ⚽️ Will plant sit and design your garden in Jersey City/Hoboken, NJ🌵asianplantie.com
Post storm Sunday morning walk in the backyard, July 19, 2026 😀 Our friends the bees and monarch butterfly are back on the milkweed, the liatris, and the borage. #ciaheartsgardening #urbangarden #jerseycitygardens #nativeplants
Planning my morning; how much do I want to trust NJ Transit that the HBLR in Jersey City is actually “on time”?
But back to being less annoyed because the eggplant and the acorn squash—which I bagged last week just in case—are outgrowing them! #ciaheartsgardening #urbangarden #jerseycitygardens
Friday afternoon walk in the backyard, July 17, 2026 😀 I’m very annoyed that I have to cover my tomatoes after seeing holes in a couple of them. Hopefully it’s because these Black Beauty and Rebel Star Fighter varieties are new to world? #ciaheartsgardening #urbangarden #jerseycitygardens
Saw these ads for Apple TV today and I realize how they didn’t advertise MLS the past month when so many people are watching the World Cup. Were they not allowed to say, Hey, if you want to see more of @usmnt.ussoccer.com Matt Freese, watch #NYCFC and @mls.bsky.social ? #ciaheartsfutbol
There are also 2 black swallowtails! Here’s one liking the liatris native plant. #ciaheartsgardening #urbangarden #jerseycitygardens
Hot Sunday morning walk in the backyard, July 12, 2026 😀 The Asclepias incarnata native plants are doing their thing and inviting monarch butterflies! #ciaheartsgardening #urbangarden #jerseycitygardens
Saturday morning walk in the backyard, July 11, 2026 😀 The liatris are so excited to get extra tall again this summer here in Jersey City, NJ and this metallic green sweat bee is here for it! #ciaheartsgardening #urbangarden #jerseycitygardens
Saturday morning walk in the backyard, July 11, 2026 😀 These Allium cernuum in our Jersey City, NJ backyard are so delicately pretty. #ciaheartsgardening #urbangarden #jerseycitygardens
“Silo” s3 ep2: The Heidi Stenson Clinic garden was primarily filmed at the Bramshill House estate near Hook, Hampshire, but I can’t find any photos of the Piet Oudolf-looking gardens. Are they all fake? #ciaheartsgardening
Book no.13 for 2026 💙📚 Richard Yates’s “The Easter Parade” skipped to the top of my reading list after I read that it’s one of David Sedaris’s favorites. It’s a tragic story, but Yates warns his readers in the first line: “Neither of the Grines sisters would have a happy life…” #ciaheartsbooks
Friday morning walk in the backyard, July 10, 2026 😀 My first eggplant! I did not plant this from seed. I bought the seedling from Asia Market in Jersey City, NJ. And an acorn squash, which is from seeds! #ciaheartsgardening #urbangarden #jerseycitygardens
Pruned the tomato plants outside. Very excited to get ripe Black Beauties, one of 2 new seed varieties I’m trying for the first time. (The other one is Rebel Star Fighter.) #ciaheartsgardening #urbangarden #jerseycitygardens
This is a LIE. ONE NJ Transit Light Rail flyer on Garfield Avenue platform so I didn’t see it until I walked to the end of the platform. The NJ Transit app has no updated alerts. I AM SO MAD. 😡
These are the alerts in the NJ Transit app!!! Everything from last week!!! @customeradvocate.bsky.social @mikiesherrill.bsky.social
Useless Light Rail on July 4th weekend! Why isn’t there an alert in the NJ Transit app about no service? Why does the Transit app say there is MORE service? Yet, they are still playing @mikiesherrill.bsky.social announcement about how great this state is! 😡😡😡
I’ve been horizontal with the A/C on watching soccer indoors, and I started to crave hot soup LOLZ This is niku udon soup; second serving was niku with rice 😋 #ciacooksjerseycity
Brave walk in the oven-like backyard, July 3, 2026 😀 The bees are loving the native plants here in Jersey City, NJ during the heat wave; at least 5 wasps hovering over the shallow water bowl #jerseycitygardens #ciaheartsgardening #urbangarden #nativeplants
Mostly stayed away from the oven when these French toasts were going! #ciacooksjerseycity
10:29pm on a Wednesday hot and humid summer night and the Light Rail screen doesn’t update! 😡 #njtransit sucks!
Current situation on the Perelman Performing Arts Center terrace next to World Trade Center for the US v Bosnia match #ciaheartsfutbol
Current situation at Brookfield, World Trade Center, for the Senegal v Belgium match #ciaheartsfutbol
Monday morning walk in the backyard, June 29, 2026 😀 The native plants are ready for the heat here in Jersey City, NJ #jerseycitygardens #ciaheartsgardening #urbangarden #nativeplants
I had to be creative to use more of the lettuce from our garden so I sautéed them with the last of the sugar snap pea harvest; tossed them with orecchiette, Manchego, and fried speck. #ciacooksjerseycity
Boo Radley 👻💩 under the prep table while we eat Sunday dinner #ciaheartsbooradley #dogsky
This is the usual story of a (Jersey City) urban gardener: plant dill from seeds, harvest dill, wow I saved money!, buy $12 smoked salmon and $5 avocado to make breakfast and use dill from the garden!, wow I spent money! But hey, I grew this dill! #ciaheartsgardening #urbangarden #jerseycitygardens