Recipes
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Spectacular Scarlet Runner Beans
Scarlet Runner Beans are in a league all their own in the bean world. They are often grown purely for…
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Glorious Garlic
This pungent member of the Amaryllis Family (Amaryllidaceae), which includes beautiful blooming flowers like the daffodil, as well as members…
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Exceptional Elderberries
Ah, elderberries, deliciously poisonous, yet good for you. The fruit you should eat…if you know what you’re eating. While they…
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Perfect Pumpkins
To eat, carve, or simply to decorate with, pumpkins are a wonderful annual to grow. The genus Cucurbita L. encompasses…
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Remarkable Rutabagas
What do you get when you cross a turnip (Brassica rapa) and wild cabbage (Brassica oleracea)? A rutabaga (Brassica napobrassica)…
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Outstanding Onions
Onions (Allium cepa L.), being the most extensively cultivated species of the Allium genus, are a root crop that nearly…
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Captivating Capers
Capers (Capparis spinose), the caper bush, also called Flinders rose, is a perennial plant that is known to have round,…
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Go Green Beans!
Green, string, snap, pole, or bush, whatever you call these beans, these edible little pods are great to grow in…
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Very Mulberry!
Let me begin by saying mulberries aren’t for everyone. I say this because all my life I have grown up…
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Stevia
Stevia, also called sweetleaf or sugarleaf, is probably something we have all heard of. It seems to have risen in…
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Healthy Horseradish
The Brassicaceae family (mustard family) has so many amazing vegetables in it that grow splendidly in our gardens. Horseradish (Armoracia…
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Brilliant Broccoli
Broccoli, officially known as Brassica oleracea, variety italica, is a well-known member of the mustard family (Brassicaceae, formerly Cruciferae) that…
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