I like to mulch with straw in our vegetable beds. It sets off the plants nicely and gives the garden a clean look. It does everything else a good mulch should do as well, retaining moisture in the soil and holding down weeds. Eventually straw just seems to melt into the soil, adding more organic [...]
Entries Tagged as 'garden'
Mother’s Day Album
May 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Blog, garden
Tags: flowers·garden·spring·vegetables
Pork Stir Fry with Garden-Fresh Tat Soi
May 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Blog
We are having great fun with our cast-iron wok. We’ve stir-fried almost every imaginable protein. Tonight it was time for pork to take a turn.
I simply cut some boneless pork chops into thin strips and created a multi-faceted stir-fry using enoki mushrooms left over from a catering job along with tat soi freshly harvested from [...]
The Birds!
April 21st, 2009 · 7 Comments · Blog
We like to boast that we have very few pests in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from White House. No pesky rabbits or gophers or deer munching on our produce. No squash borers or grubs or beetles inflicting damage.
But every once in a while, for reasons still unclear, we [...]
How Do You Keep Garden Records?
April 8th, 2009 · 17 Comments · Uncategorized
I must be terribly old-fashioned because I do not have a computer program to plan my garden.
Planning? Mostly I look at what’s in my bag of seed packets, look at the garden, look at the seed packets and start digging.
It helps to plant more or less the same variety of vegetables year after year. [...]
Tags: garden
Look What’s Coming Out of the Ground
April 7th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
Excuse me while I gush over my fava beans. They are one of the first plants to emerge in the spring and they also happen to be one of the most interesting. As they grow, favas assume an architectural yet almost prehistoric looking structure. You would hardly know they were a bean. Yet these are [...]
Tags: garden·spring·vegetables
Have Garden, Will Trade for Sausage
April 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Last year I began trading some of the produce we grow in our kitchen garden here in the District of Columbia for venison a neighbor harvests on a family farm in Virginia. So far we had received two large packages of venison stew meat and some tenderloin. My last gift to them was a [...]
Too Soon for Potatoes?
March 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
Just a few days ago it was starting to look like spring around our kitchen garden here in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House. I was able to get out and sow spinach and fava bean seeds. And today my seed potatoes are scheduled to be shipped from Maine. [...]
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
