Wait, was that the one with the vinegar and caper sauce or the one with the brains and parsley? I keep seeing different versions from old cookbooks and I'm not sure which one's actually the real "vintage" one.

That talking to the plants idea sounds wild but I've heard similar stuff about how CO2 from our breath helps them grow. Did you notice if your tomatoes started popping off right after you began talking or was it a slow build up?

Yeah I had a similar deal over in Chicago last year on a tight site between two old buildings. The luffing jib just let me keep the load tucked in and swing it up and over without worrying about clipping a window or a parapet. @riverknight you're dead on about the setup time, it does take a bit longer to get going but once you factor in how many times you'd have to reposition a lattice boom it's really not that bad. I swear there were days where the luffing jib let me set stuff in one pass that would have taken three or four swings with a regular boom. Honestly for tight urban stuff I wouldn't go back to a lattice boom unless I had to.