- Barbara Damrosch
Damrosch is a freelance writer and the author of “The Garden Primer.”
- Weed it and eat
- There’s gold in them thar potato hills
- Planting in sodden soil
- Pea picking time
- An edible corner of the concrete jungle
- The indispensable trowel
- Stinging nettles: A weed worth welcoming
- Making perfect compost
- The magic of pole beans
- The future of food
- A radish worth the wait
- The early bounty of the asparagus bed
- Fencing out the Easter Bunny
- Tooling up for spring
- Root vegetables bridge the gap until spring
- The benefits of grafted tomatoes
- Microgreens offer a jump on spring
- Some sage advice on starting herbs from seed
- Nip in the air, snip in the garden
- The delight of winter arugula
- Organic begins with seed
- Should you keep old garden seeds?
- Tomato growing starts with picking seeds
- Green garlic an easy spring crop
- Brussels sprouts, the winter vegetable
- Kohlrabi, the next big thing in the garden?
- Plant hardiness zones and climate change
- Growing the cold hardy spinach
- Salsify and scorzonera, the rarer roots
- After Thanksgiving, turn Black Friday green
- A Cook’s Garden: Partial to parsley
- A medley of root vegetables
- Catching winter critters
- Grow your own pumpkin pie
- Labeling GMO food
- Autumn’s white frosting makes veggies sweet
- Bean season: How to save seeds for next year’s planting
- Fried green tomatoes
- Weed season, Part 3: Autumn
- Turning summer tomatoes into winter comfort food
- Plant onions for overwintering now
- A leafy green named magenta spreen
- A different delicacy: Squash vine tips
- Get ready for a fall garden
- The garden path to longevity
- Roasted plum tomatoes are plumb delicious
- Time to plant fall crops
- Propping up veggie floppers
- When vegans arrive unannounced, turn to the garden
- Savoring the leaf of the grapevine
- The lovely, pesky herb named lemon balm
- How to rid a garden of weeds
- The future of ‘famine foods,’ unconventional edibles in the garden
- Apple trees for the home garden
- Sunflowers brighten the vegetable garden
- Planting sweet potatoes in late spring
- Growing peppers, hot and hotter
- Foraging for dandelions, that edible weed
- The fork: A gardener’s essential tool
- The problem with health food
- Gardening advice: How to prepare seedlings for the garden
- Calamondin orange, the best-behaved citrus tree
- The benefits of wood ash in the garden
- Growing kale in winter
- Which self-seeding vegetables to lose and leave
- Finding greens for a winter salad can be a scavenger hunt
- For a free and easy mulch, use twigs
- Make room for potatoes, even in a small garden
- Why you should try pelleted seeds
- Why you should grow garlic chives
- 2012 seed catalogue review
- Salsify, a root vegetable that does double duty
- Celebrating the winter solstice
- Cooking from scratch: A dying art?
- For a winter wonder, try blanching escarole
- Gifts for gardeners
- Pasta Primavera, a wonderful, catch-all dish
- What on earth? Winter’s buried treasure
- If given a chance, small-scale farms could make a difference in solving hunger problem
- Pumpkins can be used for more than just decorations
- A Cook’s Garden: Preparing houseplants for winter indoors
- Garlic, a bulb for patient foodies
- Stretching the rewards of sweet corn
- Italian heirloom varieties such as anellini add a twist to snap beans
- Papaws: A fruit more forgotten than forbidden
- Gardens can have beauty and bounty
- Growing your own food: It’s not elitest or impossible
- Raspberries: How to ensure a sweet reward
- The importance of record-keeping in a successful garden
- To ensure a good fall and winter garden harvest, start in the summer
- A remedy for weeds: Eat them
- Celery root may be daunting, but it can rewarding to have in your garden
- Strawberries’ guardian: A good mulch
- Crucifers, garden vegetables with crosslike blooms, offer reasons to be reverent
- Lawns can complement gardens in more ways than beauty
- A chicken farmer learns to eat like a bird
- Vanquishing vermin in the compost pile
- Taming the unruly tomato vine
- Using fire to kill weeds
- Ways to use the power of sage in the kitchen
- How interplanting can double the size of your garden
- How to deal with invading ferns
- The garden’s simplest measuring tools: Your hand, a stride, a rake
- Weaseling his way into a farmer’s heart
- Salanova: The ultimate efficiency lettuce
- Aronias: The next hot berry?
- Planting and eating Indian corn
- A tribute to winter vegetables
- Aesthetically pleasing herbs
- Aesthetically pleasing herbs
- Genetically engineered alfalfa isn’t necessary
- Genetically engineered alfalfa isn't necessary
- The best dinner parties are impromptu
- The best dinner parties are impromptu
- Europe plugs its own leeks
- Europe plugs its own leeks
- Seed catalogues plant dreams
- Seed catalogues plant dreams
- The dirty truth: We may be over-sanitized
- The best gardening periodicals, forums and blogs
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