I had already spent the better part of a day weeding when, crawling on all fours, I happened upon this scene just above ground level. It looked like a garden diorama, deep inside an heirloom Italian squash plant, where blossoms and newly formed squash composed themselves into a luminous still life on their bed of straw mulch. […]
Tags:flowers·spring·vegetables
We think of potatoes mostly baked and slathered in sour cream or whipped with a big pat of butter. But they start out as a plant. And this time of year the potato plants are making a show of blooming in the garden. You have to look farily closely to see the blossoms. But our […]
I had to make a sudden switch in my garden planting scheme this year after I decided to stop eating starchy carbohydrates. I had ordered a variety of favorite legumes–cranberry beans, black-eyed peas, peanuts–and realized there was no point taking up valuable garden space with them if we didn’t plan to eat them. Instead, I […]
Tags:brassicas·spring·vegetables
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