Lettuce and Purslane: Garden Tips and Uses from a Vintage Guide
A vintage garden note advises on lettuce varieties and harvesting to yield multiple crops. It covers winter transplanting, leaf care, and nutrition, noting leaf lettuce offers high vitamin A and C and suggesting cooking tips for outer leaves. It also promotes purslane as a nutritious weed, with a simple steam recipe and a glimpse of a Naples, New York garden business linked to George Abrahams.
A Cheery Tomato Plant Defies Drought in Chevy Chase
A Washington Post reader chronicles a single green tomato plant thriving amid drought and flood in a gravel bed near Chevy Chase Maryland. While other blooms wither the plant quietly grows, producing nine tiny yellow blossoms and a possible autumn harvest and teaches resilience.
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