I sowed my fall beets and carrots at the beginning of September. I knew I really should have planted them earlier, but August was so hot and gross, and it seemed like so much work to clear away all the detritus of my summer garden. And since it felt like it would be hot forever, [...]
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August’s Laziness = November’s Disappointment
Posted in Gardening, tagged beets, carrots, seeds on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Weekend Photos: Sunny Fall Days
Posted in Food, Gardening, tagged beets, busboys and poets, DC, ginkgo, kale, leaf porn, photos on November 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There certainly have been a dreary stretches this fall in DC. They may have turned off the water at my community garden, but my fall vegetables are not wanting for rain. Still, we’ve also enjoyed some really beautiful stretches. It’s going to get up into the upper 60s and low 70s for the next few [...]
Weekend Photos: How the Garden Grows
Posted in Gardening, tagged beets, carrots, chard, lettuce, mexican sour gherkins, salad greens, swiss chard on October 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
My fall garden is doing very well, and now I’m once again dealing with an excess of greens. And some of the stars of summer are producing into the fall. I’m still getting jalapeños and other peppers, plus a few tomatoes here and there (Romas and Dr. Carolyns). And the Swiss Chard is as productive [...]
Summer Round-Up: Root Vegetables
Posted in Gardening, tagged beets, carrots, fingerling potatoes, garden plans, onions, potatoes, shallots on August 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday I reviewed all the tomatoes I grew this year, and yet there are still so many other veggies that I can’t possible fit the remainder into one post. So today I’ll tackle all the root vegetables. I’ll start with the alliums and move on to beets and carrots and potatoes.
Cipollini Onions: These [...]
Sunday Photos: Harvest Smorgasbord
Posted in Food, Gardening, tagged beets, carrots, feast, goat cheese, harvest, peppers, photos, small plates, swiss chard, tapas, thai basil on August 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
With this week’s crazy harvest, I found myself with a huge total volume of vegetable matter, but not a huge amount of any one type of vegetable. So an army of my friends and I got together and feasted tapas-style on small portions of many different dishes. It was an all-night affair. We’d make one [...]
OMG, the veggie harvest is totes ridix.
Posted in Food, Gardening, tagged basil, beets, carrots, chard, eggplants, fingerling potatoes, herbs, Mexican Sour Gherkin, onions, peppers, potatoes, swiss chard, tomatoes on August 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
But seriously, the harvest is totally ridiculous right now. I went out to the garden and came home with three heavy sacks of vegetables. Tonight my friends and I are going to cook a lot of different little tapas-style dishes to dispatch the copious veggies pouring out of the garden plot.
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