“The beans are in in Bloomingdale!”
“These veggies are happy to be saved from the squirrels in our small backyard garden in Brightwood!”
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“win oaks garden, Columbia Heights Garden Haul. My first big harvest of the summer! Too bad construction at Powell Elementary plans to turn the north side of Twin Oaks garden into a parking lot this fall.”
“our “garden haul” from Bloomingdale. Peppers grown in our front lawn on Seaton Place. These grew from seedlings bought at the Bloomingdale farmer’s market earlier in the season.”
“Garden Haul: Hill East Blackberries The small blackberry bush I planted a few years back has now grown into full-fledged Feed-Me-Seymour status. This is our third harvest of the season. It’s now pie time.”
If you have a great haul, beautiful tomato or something like that, send an email and a couple photos to princeofpetworth(at)gmail with your neighborhood and garden haul in the subject line.
“Here is a recent harvest from my backyard edible garden located in the Deanwood neighborhood of NE, DC. Additional pictures and the complete list on what I’ve got growing here.”
“Kale, tomatoes, one beet, brussel sprouts, and swiss chard from our plot at Friendship Garden”
If you have a great haul, beautiful tomato or something like that, send an email and a couple photos to princeofpetworth(at)gmail with your neighborhood and garden haul in the subject line.
‘Wow’ from Glover Park above!
“This garden haul is from a Mount Pleasant backyard garden. The jumbo tomatoes are Virginia Sweets, the medium sized tomatoes in the group shot are Old Germans, and the cherries are sweet 100’s.”
If you have a great haul, beautiful tomato or something like that, send an email and a couple photos to princeofpetworth(at)gmail with your neighborhood and garden haul in the subject line.
“3 varieties of tomatoes, 2 kinds of eggplant, daisies, and zinnias from our community garden plot, grapes and mint from the yard in Bloomingdale.”
“This was my take from Saturday (peppers, tomatoes, cukes, eggplants, cantaloupe, basil and Swiss chard). Plenty to share with my neighbors.
I grow everything in terra cotta pots on my roof deck. Moving from an in-ground garden to a potted garden has taken a good learning curve. Some things flourish, somethings just won’t grow, somethings require a special variety to do well. Ive been working on the roof garden for a few years now.
In addition to my annual and perennial flowers I have gotten a decent vegetable garden to grow (peppers, tomatoes, chard, squash, cantaloupe, zucchini, cucumbers), most herbs to really well in the full sun (I have basil, parsley, thyme, rosemary, spearmint, chives) and after a lot of trial and error, a decent orchard (apples, nectarines, grapes, figs, mulberries, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, cherries, goji berries).
Id love to hear from other DC roof / container gardeners to compare notes, trade tips, seeds, and plants (ground gardening doesn’t compare much with unique needs of container gard.”
If you have a great haul, beautiful tomato or something like that, send an email and a couple photos to princeofpetworth(at)gmail with your neighborhood and garden haul in the subject line.
“My wee herb garden (rosemary, oregano, parsley and the basil plant that ate DC) 8 floors above 15th street. Next year: tomatoes.”
“My tiny strip of dirt in Petworth has been producing tomatoes and cucumbers a healthy rate (cucumbers not pictured, because I ate them), but this week I finally got a few other things: jalapenos, bell peppers, squash and carrots.”
If you have a great haul, beautiful tomato or something like that, send an email and a couple photos to princeofpetworth(at)gmail with your neighborhood and garden haul in the subject line.
“We’re first-time raised bed gardeners and returned this week from a four-day conference to find an amazing haul waiting for us in our Brightwood backyard. Tomatoes (heirloom varieties too), eggplant, jalepeños, serrano peppers – and we plucked even more tomatoes and eggplant last night!”
“Not a huge haul from my balcony tomato plants, but my sun gold tomatoes have pollinated my black cherry tomatoes. Halloween tomatoes, perhaps?”
If you have a great haul, beautiful tomato or something like that, send an email and a couple photos to princeofpetworth(at)gmail with your neighborhood and garden haul in the subject line.
“Finally something to do with those pictures of produce from my garden at 14th and Taylor (the one that will now likely be paved over)… :(
All harvested Tuesday, 7/29. Tomatoes, multi-colored beans, edamame, shishito peppers, eggplant, Swiss chard, sweet potato leaves, carrots, beets, beet greens.”
“Wanted to share what’s been happening in our Brightwood raised bed — lots of garden goodies! At this point, the cherry tomato plants are taller than me!”
If you have a great haul, beautiful tomato or something like that, send an email and a couple photos to princeofpetworth(at)gmail with your neighborhood and garden haul in the subject line.
V Street NW between 2nd and 4th Streets NW
@LizDucey tweets us:
“@PoPville Drop off compost option for Bloomingale/Truxton Circle residents at Common Good City Farm:
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Keep those scraps coming!
You can help lower landfill waste and our need to purchase soil by donating your kitchen scraps (no meat or dairy), leaves, and other biodegradables to our compost bins. It’s easy! Simply drop them off at the farm site. In a few weeks, it will be soil just bursting with nutrition to feed our crops! We also take leaves, junk mail (without plastic windows or staples and ripped into smaller pieces), and non-glossy newspaper.
How to Drop Off
Our compost deposit bin is located along the fence facing the park. Simply deposit your food scraps in the bin! We take all kinds of food scraps except animal products, which would attract pests and break down too slowly (eggshells, however, are okay). Include some carbon-based materials (paper, sawdust, cardboard, leaves, etc.) if possible. See below for details on acceptable materials. Email us or come visit during our open hours if you have questions!
To make this program work well and keep the compost pest and odor free, we need your help. Please do NOT leave bags or bins of food scraps outside the Farm gate when we are closed! This will smell and attract rodents and we will have to cancel this program.
What We Accept (more…)
“19 Tomatoes, 3 Yellow Squash and 1 little banana pepper from Glover Park backyard garden.”
“Today from my small backyard garden on 12th Place, NW.”
If you have a great haul, beautiful tomato or something like that, send an email and a couple photos to princeofpetworth(at)gmail with your neighborhood and garden haul in the subject line.