Enough talk. Let’s eat. All told, I’ve been away from the garden a full month this season. Long enough for the cucumbers to swell to bursting, the okra to get tough as wood, the beans to shrivel on the vine. But last night we cut through all the whining, determined to make a meal of […]
A garden waits for no man and that should be perfectly clear. I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect when we arrived home after two weeks in Mexico. Our friends Helen and Tomeika have been doing a great job of watering through the depths of summer in Washington, D.C. So everything is lush and green. […]
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Beginning last September, I’ve been involved with a small group of avid gardeners and volunteers forming a group called D.C. Urban Gardeners. It was pretty much a club of six, until I went online one day recently and advertised for new members on just about every listserv I could find here in the District of […]
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