Am I crazy? I’ll let you be the judge. The reason I ask is because I am the only person I know who weeds with a dinner fork. Not all the time, mind you. But I find that around young plants, sometimes when it’s hard to distinguish between the vegetables and the weeds, the only […]
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This is high season for greens. The very early varieties–spinach, mizuna, arugula–have faded from the scene. They were already flowering, trying to make seed. Out they go to make room for something else. But now we have lovely beds crammed with mustard greens and collards. I like to braise them in a heavy pot with […]
Growing peas successfully in the District of Columbia is a badge of honor for a kitchen gardener. Springs here tend to be too short and too hot. But I’m considering swallowing my pride. This year I looked at my crop of English peas, short and anemic, next to a planting of snap peas that can hardly […]
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