Allow them to grow to nearly three to four inches tall before eating, Conrad advises. Harvest time: Two to three weeks. If you haven’t tasted beets, you’re missing out on a versatile and tasty veggie.
By now, leaves of deciduous trees are covering beds and lawn areas. The best thing to do with them is to shred with the lawn mower and then scatter back onto beds, or leave on the lawn.
A block east, cars whooshed down a busy neighborhood thoroughfare. But near the garden, single-family houses lined the edges of a peaceful, tree-lined street. Just to the south, children rode their ...