I was late starting my peppers, eggplants and tomatoes this year. But they’ve been coming along fine in their tiny cells, soaking up sun lately in an improvised hoop house in the front yard. Yesterday I got up at the crack of dawn to move them into their permanent home. I always have more than [...]
I spent the better part of the weekened paying back for all that good compost we laid on the vegetable beds in the spring. The cosmos were seven feet tall. The zinnia were so big they had simply collapsed and were splayed all over the ground. The “mammoth” variety sunflowers had grown into sequoias, towing over [...]
Tags: compost·fall·germination·greens·planting
Daughter is 10 now, an age when kids typically begin to approach things with a more mature attitude. For a while, I thought she would never be interested in working in the garden, but now she gladly agrees to help with the spring chores. Here she is planting sunflower seeds. She came up with her [...]
Tags: planting·spring·sunflowers
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.
What's in your turkey? We killed and butchered more than 80 birds on the farm of Mike and Michelle Klein in Prince George's County. Thankfully, Michelle did the gutting. Unfortunately, Mike bought his turkey chicks earlier than usual and they did not stop growing. Our prize for helping was a carcass that weighed nearly 40 pounds. It barely fit in the oven. Here, Mike is subjecting a slaughtered bird to the "magic fingers," a machine with a nubby, rotating barrel that removes most of the feathers. 
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