Celery pesto

Last year in the demo garden I decided to grow cutting celery, also known as leaf celery (also - correct me if I'm wrong - Ch…

Ornamental chard and wild garden kale

Window box in commercial building, Charleston, SC, with lovely red-stemmed chard as ornament, April 5.  (I did notice that in the…

Derwood Demo Garden Update

This exciting photo shows the Montgomery County MG Demo Garden: Vegetable Division, as it looked yesterday morning (after we'…

Lead in soils, soilless mixes, worm composting

Yes, this is the catch-all soil post!  I have too much gardening to do for separate posts. First, I wanted to point you to a bran…

Freeze warning!!

Attention gardeners!  A substantial part of Maryland will be experiencing temperatures at or below freezing in the early hours of…

Leafy greens, new and overwintered

I dropped by the demo garden this morning and found last fall's radicchio growing with spring energy, not to mention consider…

How to succeed at succession

I'm teaching a class this Saturday on intensive vegetable gardening (at Montgomery College , Germantown; I think you can stil…

Pee-wee purple pak choi

The space under my seed-starting lights is already filled up, mostly with little leafy greens.  Pretty soon I will have to move t…