Archive for the ‘DC Victory Gardens’ Category
Too Much Farmers Market, Too Little Fridge
‘fresh strawberries’
courtesy of ‘K’s Clicks’
The local farmers market you’ve been hungrily stalking finally has something other than winter storage apples and root vegetables for the first time since September. You’ve been dreaming about fresh asparagus since the Second Snowpocalypse. You finally have the chance to buy strawberries that aren’t imported from Chile or someplace so… [...]
Getting Started with Community Supported Agriculture
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"Bull Run Farm Greenhouse"courtesy of "boboroshi"
Making your own Victory Garden isn’t for everyone. It may be that you live in an apartment or you simply don’t have time to do your own gardening, or perhaps you are a serial killer of plants from the garden center. Regardless, this does not prohibit you from joining [...]
Winter is for Gardening
‘The garden, fully planted’
courtesy of ‘Boboroshi’
Outside is a view of the grip of winter, fitting more for Boston, Montreal, or Calgary than a typical Washington winter. The snow flies sideways and the cold is enough to make anyone think twice about joining a snowball fight. In light of this, you might think me crazy to [...]
What do I do with all these vegetables?!
‘The salad beds’
courtesy of ‘boboroshi’
So by now, your Community Supported Agriculture share has started generating produce. And if you planted spring crops in your garden, you might be harvesting some food. (Unless you’re mrmoonpie, who was WAY AHEAD of all of us, because he is too cool.) And the farmers’ markets are starting to fill [...]
DC Victory Gardens: The Beautiful Sunshine
Arugula and Salad Mix coming up courtesy of boboroshi
Sunshine. Thank God. At long last. I was afraid Spring was going to just be rain and clouds, and none of my plants were ever going to do anything at all. The rain was wonderful from an irrigation standpoint, and did incredible things [...]
DC Victory Gardens: Planting Time!
Seedlings by dsb_nola
If you haven’t planted your seedlings yet, this weekend’s just about the perfect time. The weather today’s going to be up in the 70s, and we’re looking at 70s and 80s for the next five days, which means good soil temperatures, excellent conditions for planting. Why does soil temp matter? [...]
DC Victory Gardens: Assembling Your Implements of Home Preservation
‘Filling jars’
courtesy of ‘FamilyNature’
So, you’ve got your garden under way. Or maybe you’re anxiously awaiting the beginning of your CSA. You’ve armed yourself with a good cookbook or two so you’ll have some basic recipes for that eggplant you inevitably end up with. You wander through your nearest farmer’s market every week, wistfully looking for the [...]
DC Victory Gardens: Planting
When last we left our intrepid gardeners, we were all on the path toward clearing up the land and getting ready for garden season. We’ve had some positive developments out at the farm, getting all the soil tilled and turned for planting, and some setbacks at the quarter acre, related to a section of [...]
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‘Our Garbage Cans’
courtesy of ‘auntjojo’
I’m an unabashed free thing scavenger. If its on the curbside and in good condition, I will go out of my way to look at it. One of the best finds of late on this front, was a sizable terra cotta flower pot (thank you, 8th St. neighbor!). You know why [...]
Homegrown Veggies at the White House
‘what a find!’
courtesy of ‘NatalieHG’
It looks like we’re not the only ones with DC Victory Gardens this year- the First Family will be starting a vegetable garden on the White House grounds. I don’t see a lot of confirmation that this will be the big ol’ organic garden that Alice Waters of Chez Panisse has [...]
DC Victory Gardens: Seeds
Seeds 2 by tbridge
Starting your garden can happen many ways. You can get seedlings, or full-blown adult plants from the many DC nurseries, and most of the time, this is a pretty good way to go, but if you really want a good place to start for not a lot of dough, then starting [...]
DC Victory Gardens: An Introduction
When food rations cut into the kitchens and pantries of the 1940s, the Department of Agriculture responded with a series of WPA posters on creating Victory Gardens to help add to the plates of Americans everywhere. The response was immense. Victory Gardens sprung up all over the United States, and a generation of [...]
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