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Heirloom Vegetable Seeds by Engrid Winslow Pity the lowly cabbage, which doesn’t get the love of its sexier brassica brothers and sisters such as Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower or kale. But this overlooked vegetable is plentiful and inexpensive at this type of year. Cabbage is also a breeze to grow and does great in cool […]
Recipes for Beets The National Garden Bureau has proclaimed 2018 as the year of the beet and you can enjoy them in so very many ways. Try some new recipes to enjoy this nutritious and underused vegetable this year. Beets can be dried and made into chips, juiced, roasted, baked, pureed into soup, glazed, pickled […]
Favorite Summer Vegetables by Engrid Winslow At last, the bounty of your summer garden is at its peak and you can gather all of those glorious tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, corn, chard, kale, summer squash, onions and other vegetables to enjoy at their freshest and most flavorful. But, ahem, some of us may plant more than we […]
Noticing Nature by Sandy Swegel Traffic jams and Mother Nature conspired yesterday to make me notice. I had to get to work early and as I reached the top of a hill I could see the traffic on the single highway was at a dead stop for miles. In my hurry that day I had […]
Gardening Tips by Sandy Swegel We ate the last of the Spring Peas this week. They were gnarly and kinda tough, but I savored the sweet Spring memories. Even though the peas were planted in a little shade and watered regularly, a pea plant can only take so many blistering hot days. Pooped-out peas are […]
Growing Food in Hard Times by Sandy Swegel My heart is breaking this week with the stories coming out of Venezuela of severe food shortages and 5000 ordinary people looting food warehouses on Wednesday because they and their families were starving. They are right to be desperate. At the end of April, the government announced […]
What to grow for your chickens By Sandy Swegel Reading our Facebook posts lately on how yummy eggs from backyard chickens are got me thinking about what makes homegrown eggs taste so much better than store eggs. A varied diet helps a lot. Commercial chickens pretty much get a straight corn-based diet with vitamins and […]
What We Can Learn from Kids’ Gardens Gardening Tips There are tons of books and articles on how to teach kids about gardening. And it is lots of fun to teach young gardeners and show them how to pull a carrot or find an earthworm. But kids who like to garden do it for the […]
Gardening Tips By Sandy Swegel We got a great question from a customer this week about controlling aphids. Her frustration resonates with most of us who garden. Q. Aphids are terrible, tiny creatures and I fight them every year. I’ve been looking for the best ways to make sure they don’t screw with my […]
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