Growing your own food, you sometimes forget how much better it tastes than the stuff at the supermarket. Then a small bite shakes you back into reality. Case in point: our spinach. Spinach is notoriously difficult to grow here in the District of Columbia. Our springs are too short. It gets hot and sticky too […]
Chives may be one of our most undervalued treasures. They come back year after year, adding a bit of green garlicky flavor to omelets and sauces, and every year around this time they produce dozens of little flower buds that burst into spiky, lavender-colored pom-poms. They brighten our path to the front door as we pass […]
It was only a few weeks ago that two pounds of Yukon Gold seed potatoes arrived from Wood Prairie Farm in Maine. We’ve had a fluky spring. It was too cold to plant potatoes at the usual time in mid-March. Instead we spread them on a baking sheet in the kitchen and let them sprout. In […]
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