Author: rehan

Guest Blog by Racquel Royer This summer I learned how to grow tomatoes. It was my first time growing anything edible. I grew them in the Fenton Street Community Garden in Silver Spring, MD....

For our August 2018 Washington Gardener Reader Contest, we are giving away a pair of passes to Tudor Place in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. They include a guided house tour and self-guided...

Last week I was in Chicago for the annual garden writers conference, one of my last errands before I jumped on my flight was to drop off my entries at the Montgomery County Fair....

We had almost 200 people come to last Saturday’s Washington Gardener Magazine 11th Annual Tomato Taste at the FreshFarm Silver Spring Market today. Here are the results of the ballots submitted. Super Sweet 100 from The Farm at...

What do you do when cherry tomatoes are ripening faster than you can eat them? Make this lovely salad for a potluck or picnic to share with friends! If you think the combination of...

If you look REALLY close at the photo and the vine wrapped around my Yard Flamingo, you will see actually green beans forming! The rabbits are still a PITA in our community garden, but...

For our October 2019 Washington Gardener Reader Contest, we are giving away a 2-pound bag of Insect Frass Fertilizer 3-2-2 (prize value: $28) from Organic Mechanics (https://organicmechanicsoil.com).   Use this natural and organic fertilizer in...

Mosquitos can make gardening in summer miserable. To cut down on their population, make a few of these “traps” for them to lay their eggs in. This won’t kill existing mosquitos, but it will...

For our next 2018 Garden Book Club selection, we will be reading: “America’s Romance with the English Garden” by Thomas J. Mickey. Also at this meeting we will discuss 2019 garden book club choices,...

Hello! I’m Ashley O’Connor and I’m a senior multi-platform journalist at the University of Maryland. I’ve reported for the Diamondback and edited for the Writer’s Bloc. I also work for Capital News Service as...