How do you know when a carrot is ready to harvest? When should you pick your cucumbers? Those were among the questions I fielded on Saturday from a group of new gardeners who started plots this year with something called the Neighborhood Farm Initiative. It’s the brainchild of two passionate and engaged gardeners–Bea Trickett and […]
I actually met a longtime District of Columbia gardener recently who said she had never planted okra and did not sound anxious to do so anytime soon. What? How can this be? Doesn’t everyone know that nothing grows like okra in our hot, humid D.C. summers? Okra positively loves it here. It just can’t get […]
Tags:okra
I miss my morning walks in Maine. Two miles each way along back roads out of South Freeport. The roadsides were thick with wild flowers: Queen Anne’s lace, goldenrod, purple loosestrife, buttercups, black-eyed Susan’s. Gold finches flitted in the dense branches of an apple tree. Amidst the low din of bird sounds, the mechanical trill […]
© 2010 The Slow Cook — Design by Keri Marion Design
