Right on schedule, we are seeing the tiny blossoms on our bean plants turning into green beans. They grow fast. Some are almost ready to harvest. These are a flat Italian-style green bean called “Pension” that I planted on April 30. They’re supposed to mature in 53 days. By my count, we still have eight days […]
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I had a visit recently from an English teacher who flew into Washington for a course in “backpack journalism,’ meaning documentary filmmaking by citizen journalists. Dan Sadicario followed me around for the better part of the day, resulting in a five-minute film about a former newspaper reporter who now grows food in his front […]
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I was late starting my peppers, eggplants and tomatoes this year. But they’ve been coming along fine in their tiny cells, soaking up sun lately in an improvised hoop house in the front yard. Yesterday I got up at the crack of dawn to move them into their permanent home. I always have more than […]
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