Last year’s collards had already flowered and were forming seed pods. That’s how far behind I’d gotten is some of my gardening. I’d been meaning to pull those collards and seed the area with beets. Today broke sunny but cool. So I beat a path to the collard patch, never imagining I would find anything […]
The chickweed pesto was a sensation at yesterday’s schoolyard greening lunch. So imagine my chagrin when, after getting up at the crack of dawn to make a last-minute vinaigrette for one of my pasta salads, and after pulling platters to display the lunch on, and after hauling all this equipment plus a cooler full of […]
Chickweed, or stellaria media, normally is the bane of the vegetable garden. It grows in great creeping matts, insinuating itself into the beds, twining itself around the plants we are trying to grow for food. This time of year, chickweed is just beginning to bloom and form seeds here in the District of Columbia. So […]
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