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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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77Save 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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68A Good Hay Crop, but Economic Hard Times
Cows need good quality hay, high in protein to produce quality milk. Round bales of hay are becoming more common on many farms. The neatly stacked round bales of hay in a freshly cut field are a summer...
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71Horseradish: 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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73Borage, 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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79Wild 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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74John 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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75Tomato 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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68Oil, a Chaotic Affair
America's chaotic affair with oil began 150 years ago. On August 27, 1859, among the wooded, rolling hills and serene farms of northwestern Pennsylvania, the first successful oil well was completed. The...
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56Get the Blues for Better Health
It's okay to get a little blue during the months of July and August. It's actually very healthy – it is blueberry season. Blueberries are one of the healthiest fruits known, as well as packed full of...
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