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How-ToGrowing Late-Season Kale for Extended Color, Texture, and Taste
As we settle into our summer gardens in the Midwest, the autumn seems to be in the distant future. However, the fall season always seems to arrive before we know…
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How-ToGrow Escarole and Endive in Late Summer for a Fall Harvest
I had to start growing escarole and endive after hearing emotional tales from my mother-in-law and her sisters about their family’s holiday meals—multicourse, gut-busting, Italian-American feasts in which escarole soup…
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How-ToHow to Grow Kale
When I tell people I grow kale in my vegetable garden, they often give me funny looks and ask why I bother. Even my next-door neighbors, who welcome all my…
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DesignDesigning With Green
This ubiquitous color, when used well, can be just as exciting as vibrant flowers
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ArticleSeasonal Foods for Spring: Strawberries & Rhubarb
Besides the stirring of life in the garden, the welcome appearance of the harbingers of spring, other signs of the season are produce like fresh salad greens both cultivated and…
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ArticleRadishes and Garlics and Greens, Oh Yeah!
The weather is changing from spring to summer--nights are still cool here in Maryland--however days feel like summertime hot. Greens and radishes and garlic are loving it and we are…
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ArticleSummer Salad, Nicoise-Style
Summertime and the living is easy--supper time involves as little cooking as possible--and preparing something simple with garden produce. Here is a recipe for an easy salad, Nicoise-style, using whatever…
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ArticleHow to Grow Micro Greens
Micro Greens are one of the easiest short-season crops I’ve ever grown. Plant these little gems in early spring, late summer, or early fall for home-grown greens that are ready…
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ArticleLentil and Greens Soup
This is a perfect, heardy, winter-warming soup. You can use any greens in this recipe from the milder spinach, tat-soi or chard to the heartier kale, broccoli rabe, dandelion or…
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ArticleGreat Gobs of Winter Greens
Not only are the hardy winter greens high in vitamins and earth’s minerals so they are nourishing and good for us; once they have been exposed to cold weather they…
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