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The 2011 gardening report card
As I’ve mentioned before, I like to garden, and not just for show. Growing my own vegetables provides food that I know is fresh and offers the prospect of saving money. And this year, those efforts...
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My 2012 gardening report card
You’d think that success at growing a particular vegetable one year would be easily repeated the next. You would be wrong–at least in my case, considering how this year’s harvest from two raised beds...
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2017 gardening report card: lettuce, at last
With last Thursday’s hard frost, another year of backyard gardening has come to an end and it’s time once again to assess the results of a hobby that may not make much financial sense on an...
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2018 gardening report card: tomatoes! (And rain and rabbits)
After years of complaining that my kitchen-gardening efforts were thwarted by drought, I realized that the opposite scenario can be bad too. D.C.’s rainiest year ever saw much of my attempt at a fall...
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An easy fix for being overrun by parsley: parsley-walnut pesto
This is the time of the year that makes gardening look easy, which also means I have a serious surplus-parsley problem. The plants that had shriveled down to nothing over winter are now straining...
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2019 gardening report card: the persistence of parsley
Winter has yet to bring more than decorative amounts of snow to the D.C. area, but it’s already inflicted enough hard frosts to put a period on my kitchen-gardening efforts. So it’s once again time to...
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2020 gardening report card: a very small hill of beans
This year has given me more time to garden than any other in my adult life. Now that the gardening season is officially over, courtesy of multiple below-freezing days and the season’s first snowfall,...
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2021 gardening report card: a belated basil assessment
This annual recap of my gardening efforts should have been written last month, but then I got distracted by other topics–much as the return of travel in the second half of last year distracted me from...
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2022 gardening scorecard: a pleasant pepper surprise
Gardening remains one of my favorite analog distractions from digital chores–even if it doesn’t necessarily yield as much food to eat as I’d hoped. Which is good, since this was yet another year that...
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Tomato planting day, or yet another triumph of gardening hope over experience
This morning was not like every other Saturday at my farmers’ market, because in addition to buying food I paid for some pre-food–as in, I spent $8 or so on a couple of tomato plants that are now...
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2023 gardening scorecard: a good year for small-form-factor green leaves
It’s been weeks since I’ve collected any vegetables or herbs from the raised bed and the containers outside the back porch, but dinner tonight featured one remnant from the 2023 gardening season: a...
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