Sometimes weeding the vegetable garden can be like pulling teeth–literally. Weeds are a fact of life for the organic gardener. No one’s found a way yet to get rid of them entirely. Sometimes we are a bit careless in the way we make our compost and end up spreading grass seeds around the garden beds. […]
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My wife hates to see men with their shirts off. “Who wants to look at your big, fat, hairy belly?” she grouses. But when it gets hot, men think nothing of stripping down to their shorts. And not just gardeners. On the running trails all over town, men are huffing and puffing and sweating bare-chested […]
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My home is ground zero for our local gardening group, D.C. Urban Gardeners. This is no garden club, but an insurgent conclave committed to greening the District of Columbia. To entice their attendance at these monthly planning sessions, I lay out some kind of buffet. It gives me a chance to show off the food […]
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