D.C. isn’t a state, but now it’s going to have its own state fair. A group of local food bloggers, including our friend Amelia Showalter, have organized the event to take place on the same day as Columbia Heights Day, with all kinds of contests to judge baked goods, pickles, jams, tastiest tomatoes, “most funky looking […]
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Do you prune your tomato plants? In the past, we enclosed our tomatoes in big cages made of concrete reinforcing wire and let then grow wild. By mid-summer, they didn’t look great–all that wilted foliage–but they were making great tomatoes. So who cares what they look like? Well, this year we decided to try a […]
The miracle of seeds sprouting never gets old. Only the annual ritual of showing photographs of seeds sprouting gets old. Did you know that seeds are actually little embryos, waiting to be born? All they need are the right conditions: moisture and warmth. Some, like these tomatoes, need more warmth than others. I sprouted these in […]
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