April showers bring May flowers, or so we learned in nursery school. What I’ve learned since having my own yard to tend to is that April showers bring a massive invasion of weeds that can grow as tall as me in the blink of an eye. And in front of each of our houses, at [...]
Entries Tagged as 'gardening'
Native Plant Education
April 20th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Capitol Hill
Please welcome Matthew Roberts of Ginkgo Gardens. Throughout the course of the seasons, he will be educating us on different native plants that can be incorporated into a Hill garden’s scheme. –MHC ____ Have you seen all those small dark grey-barked trees with the shocking fuchsia-purple flowers up and down their branches all over town [...]
Tags: gardening
Welcome Elizabeth From Frager’s!
March 29th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Capitol Hill, DC
With cherry blossoms in full bloom and daffodils lining the streets, we are reminded that it is once again spring. The fact that these harbingers of life are being dusted in snow reminds us that it is spring in Washington, DC. And with spring comes the human instinct to connect with the earth, to go [...]
Tags: Ask Elizabeth·gardening
13th Street Garden – Construction Begins!
September 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitol Hill South
Since moving to The Hill in June 2009, I’ve wondered what — if anything — would eventually be built at the corner of 13th and C Streets SE. Sure, it had a sign promising a “community park and garden,” but there weren’t any specifics. The garden was simply promised at some “future” date. The site [...]
Warm Weather Brings an Earlier Ginkgo Spraying Season
April 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitol Hill
The ginkgo tree is a thing of beauty with its stick straight branches reaching toward the sky and fan shaped leaves that are a lovely shade of green all spring and summer, before turning to a bright shade of yellow come fall. Well, at least the male ginkgo tree is a thing of beauty. The [...]
Tags: gardening·Gingko Trees
Where Every Gardener Knows Your Name
February 5th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Capitol Hill
Gardeners are a great group of people. Being a gardener myself means I get to bask in my own compliment; but I don’t think that’s so bad because speaking recently to Colleen Cancio and Tom Kavanagh, leaders of the happy effort over at the Green East Community garden, I have even more solid proof of [...]
Green Thumbs Thaw Early in SE
February 1st, 2010 · No Comments · New Hill East
There may still be heaps of snow on the ground, but some people are already thinking about juicy, red tomatoes fresh from this summer’s garden. A call recently went out on the Hill East listserv to recruit those interested in being part of a new community garden in the alley bounded by 17th, 18th, D [...]
My neighbor said: Lead watch
May 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Capitol Hill
On the Hill East list serve, the issue of lead in the soil came up. With more and more residents digging into urban gardening, some research might be helpful. Tom said, “A few weeks back there were posts about lead in local soil and the effect on plants and vegetables. Last week’s NYTimes has this [...]
