As one of our blogging pals recently remarked, how hard can it be to plant a row of beans? Well, we don’t plant in rows in our kitchen garden here in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House. We plant in big squares. But the principle is the same. And we’ve […]
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Having trouble growing tomatoes? Here’s proof that tomatoes will grow anywhere, under almost any conditions. This one has taken root in a crack in our front stoop. Yes, a dirty little secret of food gardening is that tomatoes aren’t at all hard to grow. You just need to pick ones that thrive in your local […]
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Were you one of those kids who used to sit in the garden on a hot summer day with a salt shaker, gorging on ripe tomatoes? I was. So I guess I am just rediscovering my youth, growing 12 tomato plants in our front-yard kitchen garden here in the District of Columbia, about a mile […]
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