You never know what delights you might come across messing in the garden. Today is supposed to be one of the hottest of the summer so I was out early weeding. The bed where I have been growing beets was mostly overrun with crabgrass. And I should say I’ve been completely derelict about harvesting those […]
Looking for inspiration for the “food appreciation” classes I teach at a private elementary school here in the District of Columbia, I need have searched no farther than my own front yard. There I have 15 different varieties of lettuce at the peak of Spring growth. All different colors. All different shapes. But I was […]
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On my tour of the garden this afternoon I finally resigned myself to the demise of my little bed of mache. It had survived the winter, but it was being overtaken by the dratted chickweed. I fetched my stirrup hoe and started digging. But lo and behold! It was like Moses parting the Red Sea. […]
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