Over the years we’ve lost many of our tomato seedlings to birds. That’s right. For some reason, birds during spring nesting love to nip the tops off our little tomato plants. Starlings seem to be the worst culprits. They just leave the foliage lying on the ground, the plants to wither and die. Maybe they […]
Sometimes bits of one thing or another from the garden end up creating their own dish. As I considered a handful of okra left over from a round of pickling yesterday I wondered what else we had in the garden that might work with it for dinner. A few minutes with a pair of kitchen […]
This week has been hot here in the District of Columbia, plenty hot enough to move the eggplant and pepper seedlings I started in flats out into their new beds in the garden. This is more peppers and eggplants than we’ve ever planted before. But there’s still plenty of room in these beds. Should I […]
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