“Riggs Park. Garlic is the long game, but after a few years, it’s really worth all the effort. We’ve been looking forward to these all spring. They’re gonna make some nice pizzas!”
Ed. Note: When your gardens start to get full of tomatoes, cucumbers, whatever you’re growing – send an email to [email protected] with Garden Haul in the title and please include the neighborhood where you grew it.
From NE, DC.
Ed. Note: When your gardens start to get full of tomatoes, cucumbers, whatever you’re growing – send an email to [email protected] with Garden Haul in the title and please include the neighborhood where you grew it.
I thought the rain was gonna delay this year’s launch but I was wrong:
“First harvest of summer in Capitol Hill”
Ed. Note: When your gardens start to get full of tomatoes, cucumbers, whatever you’re growing – send an email to [email protected] with Garden Haul in the title and please include the neighborhood where you grew it.
3400 Georgia Ave, NW
Well this is wild. And pretty potentially awesome. Post’s Express reports:
“…on June 12, Curtis, 30, is opening a second, much larger production facility in D.C.’s Park View neighborhood to grow more mushrooms as well as microgreens.
The new, 7,200-square-foot space at 3400 Georgia Avenue — dubbed The Perch — will allow Curtis to keep up with the demand for mushrooms. The space will also be used for classes on mushroom growing, and Curtis will make the building available to the community for event rentals (a clothing swap is already planned).”
back in the day
From an email:
“Buy monastery-grown and other local herbs and vegetables, take a tour of the historic Franciscan Monastery gardens and enjoy food and craft vendors:
Saturday, April 23 (9 a.m.-6 p.m.) and Sunday, April 24 (8 a.m.-3 p.m.)
Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land
1400 Quincy St. NE, Washington, DC 20017
Sponsored by the Franciscan Monastery Garden Guild and held in the monastery’s century-old gardens, the sale features herbs, vegetables, flowers, roses, azaleas, plants and shrubs, many of them grown in the monastery’s greenhouse. Free garden tours at 11 a.m. and noon daily.
The event benefits the preservation and care of the gardens, which were designed by Franciscan friars over 100 years ago, as well as newer initiatives of the volunteer Garden Guild, including beekeeping and vegetable gardening that produced over 6,000 pounds of produce for DC non-profits serving the city’s hungry last year.”
Fox asks us:
“anybody know what this invasive plant is? It killed all my new sod last summer. Now it’s everywhere! killed my yard!”
Photo by PoPville flickr user John
“Dear PoPville,
I’m looking for someone who can help me assess whether or not my Azalea bushes are salvageable. I planted them last year and have to admit that they seemed to struggle shortly after they were planted. That being said I do see new leaf sprouts and feel as though they might have a chance if someone who knew what they were doing could tend to them.
My husband is determined to just uproot them and start over, where as I’d love to be able to save them.
If you can offer any help or advice it would be appreciated!”
“The First Lady visited unsuspecting gardeners to check out their backyard and school gardens in an effort to highlight gardens across the country that are helping kids and families lead healthier lives.”
Did I mention she was staying in DC for a few more years too?
courtesy U.S. Botanic Garden
From a press release:
“A new Conservatory room focused on the plants of the world’s five areas with Mediterranean climates opens to the public today at the United States Botanic Garden (USBG) in Washington, DC. Named for the climate of Europe’s Mediterranean Basin, four other locations – California, Chile, South Africa, and Australia – share this climate known for its hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters. More than 10% of all known plants are found in Mediterranean areas. (more…)