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Update – Scalions from Salvaged Kitchen Onions
A month ago I planted two sprouted pantry onions in a pot and sewed a little spinach alongside. Today I fulfilled my intent and cut the greens of one to use as scallions. I cut a single shoot this...
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Potting – Pepper and Tomato Frenzie
Pots! Get the pots! Need more potting soil! That about sums up the last week. Some of the tomato, pepper and eggplant seedlings finally started taking off. Plus, I am about to take off for a long...
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Kitchen – Sautéed Kale with Garlic and Mustard Seed
#SundaySupper That explains this recipe. Our farmers market saw its second Sunday today and we brought home two different kales for dinner. One was very tender and tasted like mustard greens, the...
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Event – The Jefferson Table and the Monticello Kitchen
Living in Washington, DC, means you have friends working on incredible things. Did you know the Smithsonian National Museum of of American History, Behring Center, has an Heirloom Garden? Did you know...
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Kitchen – Glazed Young Beets via Julia Child for #SundaySupper
Beets. They’re what’s for dinner. Recipes are flying between garden bloggers as seeds sown turn into dinner. The #SundaySupper movement came my way earlier in the week and I will likely feed one post...
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Fast Forward – Blossoms to Beans
Friday we left our bush beans blossoming while we visited friends and family in Brooklyn for the holiday weekend. Five days later – 120 hours later – I return to our bush bean patch sporting lovely...
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County and State Fairs – Scratch that Competitive Itch
Do you love the county fair? Did your parents ever take you to the state fair because there was more fair there? Remember wrist-band day? It was caution-to-the-wind as your parents said, “Meet me...
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Kitchen – Chicken to the Garlic with Farm Fresh Tomatoes for #SundaySupper
Whether your tomato plants are going gang busters or you just can’t help but get that extra basket of heirlooms at the farmers market, you might be running out of fresh ideas for fresh tomatoes here at...
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Fall Gardening – Double Up and Catch Up
Fall gardening. Fall gardening frustrates me. We don’t have deer coming through our DC neighborhood but the squirrels pick up the slack for garden carnage. Fresh pots of soil read as “First Month Free”...
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DC State Fair – Even You Can Enter the Fermented Vegetable Contest
Our own DC State Fair celebrates the growers, the makers, the brewers, the bakers and the fermenters. Fermenting vegetables? It’s not just for the Germans, Koreans and bachelors who never clean their...
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