“Vegetables that can look as beautiful as my flowers? Are you sure? I have my doubts.” That’s essentially the conversation I had recently with a new flower-gardening friend. She had never grown vegetables before and wasn’t about to start. “Why?” I asked. Because veggies aren’t pretty. She didn’t say it that way exactly, but that ...
Read More | Just VeggiesYou should have a soil test of your vegetable garden’s soil. Maybe you bought a new home, or maybe you are changing the location of your garden to another spot in your yard. Maybe you’ve never ever had the soil tested even though you’ve been gardening in the same spot for years and years and ...
Read More | Just VeggiesYou may have read or heard the NPR piece on a report titled, “Future 50 Foods: 50 Foods for Healthier People and a Healthier Planet. The report, funded by the World Wide Fund for Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund) and Knorr Foods, finds that 75% of food people eat globally comes from just 12 plant ...
Read More | Just VeggiesMove over, peas: All sorts of onions are the new first crop I’m planting each spring. Old wives’ tales suggest peas should be planted on St. Patrick’s Day, but considering I’m not a huge fan of peas and the following facts I recently learned about onions, I’m definitely replacing green peas with green onions—and bulbing ...
Read More | Just VeggiesPotato 'Clancy', an All-American Selections (AAS) Edible Award Winner for 2019, is a blush- to red-skinned potato grown from seed. Okay, hold on. Wait just a minute. A potato from seed? You usually grow potatoes from a “seed potato,” a.k.a. a tuber—typically from a previous crop—that sprouts when buried and grows into a new potato ...
Read More | Just VeggiesA few weeks ago I told you that my world of spinach had just expanded to include an edible green called Okinawa Spinach, which wasn’t a spinach at all but a spinach-like plant with the botanical name Gynura crepioides. My world of salad greens has also just opened up immensely, going from items that grow ...
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