Would somebody please shoot me next time I agree to do a film about growing a vegetable garden? Yesterday I spent seven hours in the sun without a break with a cameraman from MonkeySee.com trying to tell everything there is to know about growing vegetables in 12 three-minute clips. The clips are entirely unscripted. I […]
Tags:garden·vegetables
Daughter heard I was working in the garden and rushed out to help. We’re calling eight the Age of Enlightenment. This area of soft, loamy soil is designated for parsnips. (And, no, we don’t use Kirkland brand laundry detergent. We scavenged the bucket from a local dumpster.)
Tags:garden·planting·spring·vegetables
It’s the middle of February and we’ve experienced some of the coldest temperatures of the season. The garden should be dead, or at least dormant, right? Not so. As I walk around our kitchen garden here in the District of Columbia, the signs of life are everywhere. Some of that is new: the rhubarb we […]
Tags:vegetables·winter
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