| Guide to Growing Arugula |
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Guide to Growing Asparagus |
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Guide to Growing Beets |
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This salad green adds a tangy, peppery or mustard-like flavor to salads and mesclun mixes.
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Plantings of this perennial can last for decades, and the foliage makes it a natural for edible landscaping.
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Easy-to-grow beets produce tasty roots for baking,
boiling or sautéing and fresh greens to boil or steam.
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| Guide to Growing Bok Choy |
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Guide to Growing Broccoli |
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Growing Brussels Sprouts |
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Bok choy's mild flavor is great for stir fries. It is also perfect for edible landscaping.
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Broccoli is grown for its edible, immature flower heads. It contains high levels of antioxidants.
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Brussels sprouts look like miniature cabbages and form where the leaves meet the stems.
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| Guide to Growing Cabbage |
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Guide to Growing Carrots |
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Guide to Growing Cauliflower |
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Cabbage is grown for its head of leaves, which are eaten raw, cooked, or processed into sauerkraut.
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Carrots have been renowned for over 2,000 years for their health properties and high vitamin A content.
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The most difficult of the cole crops to grow, cauliflower flourishes when
temps. are moderate.
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| Guide to Growing Celery |
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Guide to Growing Chard |
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Guide to Growing Chilis |
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Perhaps the most difficult vegetable to grow in many areas, this long-season crop must be started inside.
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Grown for its tasty and nutritious leaves, chard is a good substitute for spinach in most recipes.
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The many varieties of sweet and hot peppers thrive on
full sun, warm weather and well-drained soil.
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| Guide to Growing Collard |
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Guide to Growing Cress |
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Guide to Growing Cucumbers |
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Collards are among the most heat tolerant of cole crops and its taste is improved by frost.
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It's peppery taste adds zing to salads, but hot weather makes this cool-season crop bitter and inedible.
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Whether for pickling or slicing, cucumbers are easy to grow if you give them
good soil.
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| Guide to Growing Eggplant |
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Guide to Growing Endive |
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Guide to Growing Kale |
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Dramatic foliage and colorful fruits make this a good choice for ornamental beds and vegetable gardens.
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Flat-leaved varieties are known as escarole, endives are known for their sharp, bitter taste.
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The tender young leaves
from these fast-growing plants can be eaten raw, or cooked for soup & stir fries.
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| Guide to Growing Kohlrabi |
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Guide to Growing Leek |
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Guide to Growing Lettuce |
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The bizarre from-outer-space appearance makes it an eye-stopper in ornamental plantings.
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Milder flavored than most other onion-family crops, you can mulch in fall for winter and spring harvest.
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With the variety of colors, shapes and flavors available, your salads may never be the same.
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| Guide to Growing Mustard |
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Guide to Growing Okra |
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Guide to Growing Onions |
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This green adds a peppery zing to salads, and makes an attractive addition to ornamental plantings.
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Okra is grown for its immature pods, which are used for preparing soups or eaten as a cooked vegetable.
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A cool-season biennial, the onion is grown for its edible bulbs and fit well in ornamental plantings.
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| Guide to Growing Parsnip |
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Guide to Growing Peppers |
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Guide to Growing Potatoes |
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Parsnips don't develop their sweet, nutty flavor until after enduring frosts and cold weather in fall.
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The many varieties of sweet and hot peppers thrive on full sun, warm weather and well-drained soil.
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A nutritional mother lode, potatoes are easy to grow as long as they have full sun and moderate temperatures
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| Guide to Growing Radicchio |
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Guide to Growing Radishes |
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Guide to Growing Rhubarb |
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The small red and white heads of this chicory family member form best in cool weather. It is a staple in Italian salads.
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Easy to grow and ready to harvest in just 3 to 6 weeks. Winter varieties produce large, fall-harvested roots.
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This tart, easy-to-grow perennial is great for pies & jams, especially when coupled with strawberries.
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| Guide to Growing Rutabaga |
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Guide to Growing Scallions |
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Guide to Growing Shallots |
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Easy-to-grow root crop is a favorite for fall and winter soups and dishes, & can also be used raw in salads.
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A young onion before the development of the bulb. Widely used in Chinese cooking.
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A gourmet favorite, these perennial onions produce a cluster of smaller bulbs instead of one large bulb.
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| Guide to Growing Spinach |
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Guide to Growing Squash |
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Guide to Growing Tomatoes |
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This nutritious, cool-season crop is among the first greens ready to harvest, but it's quick to turn bitter.
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Summer squash is an immature fruit eaten immediatly. Winter squash is a mature fruit stored for later.
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The most popular garden vegetable crop, tomatoes come in a wide range of
sizes, shapes and colors.
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| Guide to Growing Turnips |
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Guide to Growing Zucchini |
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Spring turnip crops are best harvested while the weather is still cool. The flavor is improved by light frost.
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A variety of squash having an elongated shape and a smooth, thin, dark green rind.Taste great in salads.
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