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Mara Riley
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- Where do you live and garden?
- Waldorf, MD
- How long have you been growing food?
- 4-10 years
- Dream garden travel destination:
- Sissinghurst
- Favorite foods:
- Fresh cucumber and tomato salad... (Ok, ok -- chocolate. Who am I kidding?)
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- At 12:07pm on June 9, 2009,
riki said…
- your gardens are lovely....i see all the hard work ! :)
- At 9:08pm on July 23, 2008,
Maya said… - My daughter is a fiddler, started out Scottish/Cape Breton and moved on to bluegrass with some Acadian on the side at the wizened age of eight. Whisky Before Breakfast remains a favorite.
- At 8:21pm on June 23, 2008,
Mara Riley said… - Thanks! I like your garden beds -- I've been wondering if I should make mine higher, so my plants could have deeper roots. (Either that, or rent a post-hole digger and dig more into the subsoil.)
I see you're a weaver as well. I got a 4H counterbalance loom last year and am just starting to dip my toe back into weaving.
The dill here self-seeds like crazy. I usually leave the volunteers in the path, so I get to use whatever the caterpillars don't get. I think the caterpillars I see are tiger swallowtails; they like my parsley, too. I haven't grown many onions, but I'm growing more leeks this year -- I left most of last year's leeks in the garden over the winter and was able to harvest them this spring.
- At 9:44am on June 23, 2008,
Penelope said… - Your garden photo is lovely. we had an unusually cold spring and my tomato plants are just now looking like they want to grow. I too have lovely lettuce. My radishes didn't do well. I have planted more. Great onions from sets, so far and a row from seed to use later in the year. And I have dill -- in the past something has always eaten it. so far this year, it looks like it's going to make it. I put some in a pasta salad and in a sauce for fish. If my cucumbers make it, I'll have some nice pickles, but I shan't count my chickens/cucumbers before they hatch.
I like Sissinghurst also -- I noticed on that silly JEEVES AND WOOSTER British comedy that scenes were shot with Wooster strolling through Sissinghurst gardens -- lovely.
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