One of the cool features of our urban kitchen garden this year is a huge patch of volunteer dill that showed up in one of the vegetable beds. Our luck growing dill intentionally has always been spotty. But wouldn’t you know it: When you’re not trying to grow something, it appears in profusion all on […]
This is how I spent parts of the weekend: sitting on my duff, pulling leaves from greens that have bolted in the heat here in the District of Columbia. I planted my greens–mustards, arugula, mizuna–on March 13 and as soon as temperatures started to rise they wanted to burst into bloom. The mizuna was a […]
Over the years we’ve lost many of our tomato seedlings to birds. That’s right. For some reason, birds during spring nesting love to nip the tops off our little tomato plants. Starlings seem to be the worst culprits. They just leave the foliage lying on the ground, the plants to wither and die. Maybe they […]
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