I am sitting in my kitchen, staring at a bunch of starlings pecking at my vegetable beds. I’m feeling a bit paranoid, because last spring I watched birds very much like these descend on my vegetable beds and attack my emerging bean and cucumber plants. I went out to the garden to see what the […]
Tags:garden·spring·vegetables
A few snips here, a few snips there, and in just a few minutes we have a bowl full of kale, enough to feed four easily. This is the kale I planted September 20 of last year. The variety is called Red Russian and it survived a balmy December and January, then a bitterly cold […]
Tags:kale·Middle Eastern·spring
I had meant to write about the bane of my existence–my refrigerator–in this space. Funny how the gardening side of The Slow Cook has suddenly raised its seaonal head and completely taken over. On Wednesday I was cloistered with the ladies from the Annapolis Garden Club. My mother-in-law, who lives on the water and hangs […]
Tags:Gardening Blogs·spring
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