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Big Washington Meets Little Washington

May 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · entertaining, garden

I don’t even remember how we made the initial connection over the internet. But Sylvie Rowand–she of the Rappahanock Cook & Kitchen Gardener blog–and I of The Slow Cook–have been trading comments and food ideas electronically from the shared perspective of cooking kitchen gardeners. We grow ours here in the District of Columbia, about a […]

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Pickling Mustard Greens

May 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · garden

Sometimes in the effort to put dinner on the table we find ourselves in a race with our vegetable plants, which sometimes would rather just make seeds, then die. Such was the case with a patch of mustard greens I planted last fall. The mustard greens survived the winter–and four feet of snow–just fine. In […]

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Daughter in the Garden

May 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments · garden

Daughter is 10 now, an age when kids typically begin to approach things with a more mature attitude. For a while, I thought she would never be interested in working in the garden, but now she gladly agrees to help with the spring chores. Here she is planting sunflower seeds. She came up with her […]

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