I’m a big believer in eating what’s ripe in the garden. That may mean eating lot of okra, or squash, or tomatoes at any given time. But sometimes, if your garden is as big as ours is, the amount of produce coming ripe is overwhelming. It’s times like this I wish we had a chest […]
Tags:freezing·green beans
I spent the better part of the weekened paying back for all that good compost we laid on the vegetable beds in the spring. The cosmos were seven feet tall. The zinnia were so big they had simply collapsed and were splayed all over the ground. The “mammoth” variety sunflowers had grown into sequoias, towing over […]
Tags:compost·fall·germination·greens·planting
I didn’t win any of the categories I entered in yesterday’s first-ever D.C. State Fair. Not jams or jellies, not pickles, not biggest vegetable. But when all the votes were counted, our zucchini bread and butter pickles–which came in third behind pickled peaches and pickled white asparagus–won us the overall title of “Best D.C.-Grown Food Product.” […]
Tags:pickles·state fair·zucchini
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