Daughter is 10 now, an age when kids typically begin to approach things with a more mature attitude. For a while, I thought she would never be interested in working in the garden, but now she gladly agrees to help with the spring chores. Here she is planting sunflower seeds. She came up with her […]
Tags:planting·spring·sunflowers
As one of our blogging pals recently remarked, how hard can it be to plant a row of beans? Well, we don’t plant in rows in our kitchen garden here in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House. We plant in big squares. But the principle is the same. And we’ve […]
Tags:compost·green beans·planting
Can the farmer get too much rain? “I haven’t seen anything like this in 10 years,” says Leigh Hauter of our dreary weather lately in the Washington, D.C.area. “This is spring, but you usually have more time to get things in the ground. This is a bad one.” Leigh should be setting his tomatoes and […]
Tags:CSA·local farming·local foods·planting·seedlings·spring
© 2010 The Slow Cook — Design by Keri Marion Design
