Whoever said gardening was easy? It might not be immediately obvious, but getting our front-yard kitchen garden to look like this took the better part of the Memorial Day weekend. By the end of it, we were grilling burgers and hot dogs and sipping our gin-and-tonics, but I was bushed. First, I harvested about 10 […]
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A combination of factors resulted in lanky tomato plants this year. It’s hard to provide enough sun for the young plants through a window. Ours is east-facing, so they get a blast of sunlight in the morning, then reflected light for part of the afternoon. This year, though, the weather has been unusually cool and […]
The truth is, we almost always have more food growing in the garden than we can possibly eat at any one time. This is especially true as the temperatures grow warmer. All at once, our pretty little greens–the mustards and Chinese greens especially that we planted back in March–start to grow very tall and begin […]
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