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Uprooting Tools

Weeding tools abound in garden centers and home improvement stores. A common hoe, once the only tool in the garden shed (or at least my garden shed) has lost its space in the tool rack to a range of specialty weeders. And with good reason! A hoe chops through the soil to cut weeds’ roots. ...

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Growing Ground Cherries

Ground cherries will be the “new to me” crop in this year’s garden. I like to plant one item I’ve never grown before, and especially one that I haven’t had much experience with in the kitchen. Ground cherries, also known as husk cherries, fit the bill. I may have eaten a ground cherry but can’t ...

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Sugar Cane

Sugar cane—is it a vegetable? Or since it’s sweet, maybe it’s a fruit? It’s neither—it’s simply a grass. But it’s edible, so that gives me permission to devote one edition of Just Veggies to this tropical crop. If you’re like me, you’ve never really given sugar cane a second thought. Sugar, yes. Sugar cane, no. ...

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Kohlrabi Konstance

Kohlrabi is one of those vegetables I grew because I never grew it before. Every year I try to challenge myself to grow some new-to-my-garden crop. About 15 years ago that crop was a no-name variety of kohlrabi. I met with some success, but not enough to put it in my rotation. In fact, I ...

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Alpine Strawberries

Alpine strawberries are making a guest appearance in this vegetable-focused Just Veggies blog. I believe this itty bitty fruits may win you over the staunchest vegetable gardener. That’s because these berries, botanically known as Fragaria vesca, are packed with concentrated strawberry flavor, and their aroma is equally power-packed, compared to their larger, more common strawberry ...

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Green Lightening Squash

Green Lightening Squash is one of a handful of vegetables that were recently presented with the All-America Selections Award for 2025. It’s actually the second squash to receive the National Award for an edible variety this year. But unlike that other squash (you can read about Squash Thriller here), Green Lightening is a summer squash, ...

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