Above: “With some other blackberries in the freezer for a future homebrew. Pumpkins were a compost-borne accident (as were most of the tomatoes)”
Below: “Not bad for an apt balcony…”
gardening
Above: “This assortment of green zebras, better boys, and san marzanos was grown with love in the backyard of our house in Petworth.”
Below: “Here’s our latest tomato garden haul in 16th Street Heights. We’re harvesting seven tomato plants that we purchased from our neighbors at Working Over Thyme during their annual seedling sale.”
Above: “Nine types of tomatoes, sweet/hot/very hot peppers, different cukes, ‘I wonder if the potatoes are ready’ potato, zucchini, bonus sunflowers. From Mt Pleasant”
Below: “Some tasty carrots, beets, tomatoes, cabbage, chiles, lettuce and a sprig of rosemary. All grown in a raised bed and pots in Brookland.”
Above from Brightwood.
Below: “My weekend haul from the Buell Farm in Columbia Heights. Monster okra, squash, tomato, and the Mexico midgets have finally arrived!”
Above: “First year of the Wardman Court community garden. Thyme, basil, cucumbers, mint, rosemary,beans and LOTS of tomatoes.”
Below: “Long Sunday of canning 4 quarts of dilly beans and baking zucchini bread…so many leftovers. Hope my friends and co-workers are ready to eat.”
Above: “One-day haul from our plot at the Old Soldiers’ Home. As my husband said, “taste the rainbow.” That’s 87 heads of garlic, btw.”
Below: Hill East “From my husband’s tiny but productive potted plants: (Some still ripening!)”
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.
Above: “From our community garden in Petworth. The tomatoes are mostly Juliettes – a small Roma variety that is incredibly productive.”
Below: Capitol Hill “This is more of a halt than a haul, since we have to pluck the fruit prematurely to stimulate further tree growth, but I thought it was pretty cool that pomegranates can in fact grow in DC. By next year it should be large enough to support leaving them on the branch to full maturity.”
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.
Above: “dig the swirl on the granddaddy zuke. Grown in sixteenth st heights”
Below: “Last week’s harvest from my balcony garden in Takoma. Sadly, I won’t be getting much more out of this year’s garden. The tomato plants caught a fungus, the kale is being devoured by Imported Cabbageworm, the sugar snap peas gave me one good harvest and then dried up and died for unexplained reasons, and one of the herb pots turned out to have no drainage and became a nasty swamp with all of the rain. The basil and oregano (in a different pot) are still going like gangbusters. But the tomatoes I’ve gotten are delicious, and next year will be better!”
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.
Above: Old City
Below: “Here are some peppers (fish and jalapeño) and tomatoes from our garden in Petworth. Everything was started from seed, except for some mysterious tomatoes that just started growing in our compost (they’re tasty!).”
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.
Above: “Yikes, apparently I grew a lot of grapes! Plus other stuff. In Truxton Circle/Bates area.”
Below: Petworth
