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79Save Money: Plant Healthy Broccoli
Broccoli is a popular, yet expensive vegetable throughout the winter in supermarkets; it is also a favorite spring vegetable grown in the home garden, since it is also one of the easiest to grow...
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79How to Grow Red Beets: a Healthy Vegetable.
Red beets are a smart vegetable to raise in the home vegetable garden. They can be planted early in the spring and at intervals throughout the growing season. Both the tops and the bottoms of the vegetable can be used in many gourmet recipes....
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77John Brown: A Person on the Threshold, from the Farm to the Gallows
The old farm house, remnants of the tannery building, and the small cemetery remain on the isolated, rural country road. John Brown, who led the failed raid on federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry on October 16, 1859, is still remembered, in this small...
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77Tomato Warning : Take Action Now
The news continues to blacken for tomato growers as July turns into August. Late blight is on a sad and tragic march. Late blight, technically known as Phytophthora infestans, is a nearly always fatal plant disease. The late blight can blacken...
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74How to Grow Peas: a Carefree Vegetable
Peas are one of the best low maintenance, carefree vegetables in the home vegetable garden. Peas can be planted as soon as the winter snows melt for an early spring harvest and planted again in late summer...
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72Wild Leeks: A Woodland Herb and Good Food
Throughout much of the eastern North American continent, the wild leeks began to emerge in late March and early April. Leeks, or as they are called in some regions, ramps, or wild onions, are an ancient...
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72Majestic Mullein: A Sentinel Herb
Mullein is a fascinating medicinal herb which can also be planted as an ornamental flower. The stock, covered with brilliant yellow flowers, can zoom upwards of 7 feet. It's stature makes this biennial herb plant excellent for backgrounds or...
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69Borage, the Forgotten Herb: Attractive, Beneficial, Easy to Grow
Borage, a little known herb in North America, is a good plant, almost of hero status in the vegetable or flower garden. An attractive herb with blue, star shaped flowers, it attracts many gentle pollinators such as honeybees and bumblebees. ...
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70Horseradish: Eat, Drink and Grow
Although it likes to wander and needs to be controlled, horseradish is a plant to consider in the home vegetable garden. Horseradish, a perennial root crop, is an easy plant to grow; pests and insects...
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69Sage: Salvation and the Kitchen
In the old days, people used sage, to treat snake bites and just about any other ailment known. Sage today, however, is more important in the kitchen, instead of a medicine pouch. Since the days of the...
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