We don’t normally let our vegetable garden go completely to seed, but this has been a particularly wet spring. Not many opportunities to perform the usual garden cleanup. The rhubarb and arugula and collards have been putting on quite a show. Some of the leftover radishes have become small trees. The parsnips and burdock that […]
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Can you believe it? We are still harvesting leeks we planted on March 8, 2010. This is what they look like. A bit worse for wear, yes. But once you peel away all the gnarly stuff, the leeks are still tender and delicious. But with spring moving in fast, and temperatures rising, we are trying […]
On the theory that we are better off planting things in our urban kitchen garden that otherwise cost us an arm and a leg to purchase elsewhere, we planted leeks this year not knowing how they would do. But would you look at these beauties? Tomatoes were a bust in this, the hottest year on […]
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