Newspaper ‘clippings’ about gardening

Ready to sit back and enjoy recent Washington Post gardening columns?  Here are six you might find interesting: Become a garden a…

Derwood Demo Garden Update

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

Violet Jelly

Last summer I found a recipe for violet jelly. It was pretty simple: violet blossoms, water, lemon juice, sugar (lots of it!), a…

Winter crop that never fails

Rutabagas ... eaten Thanksgiving guests have long since departed.  We’ve just about liberated all leftovers from our refrigerator…

Tomato Patch: Time for green manure?

Green manure--or something else? I’ve bought many bags of composted manure over the years, and when I opened them in our garden, …

Explosion in our blackberry patch

Bad Bob. This year in general I’ve done an above-average job of keeping the flourishing winter weeds under control. But somehow I…

Delicious but dangerous!

Wineberry ( Rubus phoenicolasius )is an Asian bramble species that produces luscious fruit in mid-summer. I know gardeners who ha…

Not Rain and Plants Out of Place

Hello! Here's a much belated report from the Derwood Demo Garden in Montgomery County, delayed by the demise of my old comp…