The veggie garden is ankle- to calf-deep in miner’s lettuce this time of year. It began with a single generous packet of seed a few years ago, and now it comes back reliably–if by “reliably” you mean “with a vengeance.”… Read More »miner’s lettuce season
What kind of vegetable gardener are you? Do you spend winter charting out rows and developing timetables for when things needs to go into the ground? Or does chance play a big part in what’s in your veggie garden? Here’s… Read More »the random veggie garden
Some folks in my office organized an event where we’d bring in our excess fruits and veggies and do a big exchange for some of the other things people brought to share. My main time of having excess food in… Read More »our big food swap
One night a week and a half ago, when much of the world was watching the final “American Idol” showdown between Adam Lambert and Kris Allen or viewing the finale of “Dancing with the Stars,” almost a hundred of us… Read More »words are important
It’s hardly May, and I have my first tomatoes of the season already, this gorgeous pair on a seedling of the heirloom Cherokee Purple. Okay, I cheated a little. These are actually hothouse tomatoes. Some seed I planted in the… Read More »first tomatoes and artichokes
I often have trouble mixing ornamentals and vegetables together in a garden bed that’s supposed to be “for company,” a bed that’s meant to be attractive as well as containing tasty-looking plants that you’d like to take to the dinner… Read More »controlled chaos
Saturday I put some seeds of Armenian cucumber into the ground. There are heirloom vegetables and then there are ancestral varieties like this, varieties that go so far back into history that to grow them and have them at your… Read More »ancestral vegetables