May 2009, with eight inches of rain, was the sixth wettest on record here in the District of Columbia. There were times we weren’t sure we were going to have a harvest this season. The eggplants are still a bit stunted. We’ve seen rot on the squashes. But the tomatoes have not been deterred. It […]
It’s become an annual ritual, the raising of the trellises. I fashioned them out of 1 1/2-inch PVC plumbing pipe, two eight-foot lengths joined together with a “T” fitting to run the length of a garden bed. At each end are 90-degree elbows. The “T” and the elbows connect to three legs, each eight feet long. […]
I had already spent the better part of a day weeding when, crawling on all fours, I happened upon this scene just above ground level. It looked like a garden diorama, deep inside an heirloom Italian squash plant, where blossoms and newly formed squash composed themselves into a luminous still life on their bed of straw mulch. […]
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