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How to Grow Tomatoes
When pruning or topping, break out only enough shoots to allow good light and air movement throughout the tomato cage.” Harvesting and Enjoying Tomatoes During a busy summer and autumn, your big, glorious globes of tasty tomato goodness will ripen and...
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A to Z Gardening for Food and Nutrition: Vitamin A
Vitamins canbe fat soluble or water soluble. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans encourage us to eat more fruits and vegetables. Unless instructed by your doctor or dietitian, the bestway to get essential vitamins is from eating a healthy diet full of...
California
El Segundo
Trellising Fruits and Vegetables Saves Garden Space
If you're fashioning a kids' teepee, leave the spacing between two of the poles large enough for a youngster to squeeze through without bruising the stalks. Concentrate on improving the main stem by removing suckers along the sides and maintaining side...
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Heirloom Tomato Choices
Box Car Willie , named for the King of the Hoboes, offers a smooth red color with bright orange undertones. The plant is perfect for patio gardens. Rose-pink tomatoes. Abe's favorite is used for making ketchup, tomato juice and slicing.
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Philadelphia
Boutique Pumpkin Varieties
Pumpkins are members of the Cucurbita family, along with squash , cucumbers and melons . This corking results from expanded fractures in the skin that occur because of the fruit's high sugar content and thin skin.
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Get Your Children Into Gardening With These 8 Colorful Fruits & Vegetables
When guiding your children through the planning and planting stages of gardening, have fun with the process. Incorporate something fun into the garden as a trellis, such as the side of the children's swing set or a teepee trellis that the kids can climb...
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Philadelphia
The secret identity of those mild-mannered foods: SUPERFOODS*!
And is not a technical term with a specific meaning..] In the past, "super" foods were those that provided a maximum number of calories per human toil. Not too long ago, my beloved husband read to me from a list he had found somewhere online.
California
El Segundo
Bottoms Up: 6 Surprising Plants to Grow For Beverages
All six of these garden-to-glass plants share these characteristics: Cold Hardy: They grow almost anywhere, no matter how far north you live. As I'm growing and harvesting them, treats like juices, wines, meads, syrups and ciders barrel through my imagination.
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Philadelphia
Types of Tomatoes: Indeterminate, Determinate and Dwarf
With flavors that range from smoky to mild and tangy to sweet, tomatoes come in a broad range of flavors and colors. As you're deciding which types of tomatoes to include in your garden be sure to take their disease resistance into consideration, too.
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Philadelphia
The Brown Bug Battle Plan (Stinkbugs)
Many folks are throwing stink bug "remains" into burn barrels or bonfires to discover they were not dead after all (bugs immediately came flying out). Commercial growers are losing millions of dollars due to stink bug infestations with no known chemicals...
California
El Segundo
Ginger Root
I remember that in Hawaii, almost everybody, not just indigenous Hawaiians, used a lot of Hawaiian words in everyday speech. The official name for the plant is Zingiber officinale , and the genus contains the “true gingers.” Other garden gingers include...
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Philadelphia
Improve Nutrition & Reduce Waste By \
Mostly plants.” I would tweak that a little to include, “Eat most of the plant, too.” Outsmart The Plants Nutritional researchers, like every parent ever, have tried to get kids to like vegetables.
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4 Ways to Grow Your Garden Without Seeds
The cutting will not grow if you stick the wrong end into the growing medium,” Feather stresses. When you take a stem cutting, a portion of stem is removed from the mother plant and forced to generate an entirely new root system.
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Grow Heat-Loving Crops—Even In the North
“It's deep red, small (4 to 6 ounces), and super early with really good flavor.” For a paste tomato, he recommends the Roma. While the temperatures are perfect for sleeping, they're not as effective for raising impressive tomatoes.
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Philadelphia
Backyard Fruit Trees... Think Your Space is Too Small?
If you have an old crabapple, you can graft strains of more desirable apples onto the trunk thus keeping the tree size while adding apples you enjoy into your ‘orchard'.http://www.yamagamisnursery.com/fruit-trees/multiple-graft-fruit-trees/http://gurneys.com/product.asp?splid=SPLID01&pn=71542&bhcd2=1212334578http://www.pacificgroves.com/explore/genetic_dwarf.htmlhttp://www.virginiaberryfarm.com/Fruit_berry_plants/fruit_trees.htm
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El Segundo
Canning Fruits and Vegetables
To preserve high-acid products such as fruits, pickles and tomatoes, the USDA recommends water bath or pressure-canning methods. Use a large kettle that will hold all the jars for one batch.
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Garcinia cambogia: Weight Loss Miracle or Just a Tropical Fruit?
Garcina cambogia caught my attention after several of my patients asked me, "Will Garcinia help me lose weight?" What does the science say? In some regions, the green, bitter fruits are sliced befoand then sundried and used to impart flavor to Indian...
California
El Segundo
Edible Palms: Date Palms
These are exceptionally large, soft and incredibly sweet dates (to me, a bit too sweet) and their popularity have led to the term "Cadillac of dates."Medjool Dates from California found at local grocers; photo on right shows Medjool dates up top and for...
California
El Segundo
Superfruit ~ Acai Berry,
Last October the National Restaurant Association surveyed over one thousand chefs asking them to predict 'what's hot in 2009'. Since December of 2007, Jamba, Inc. Goji (pronounced go-gee) and Acai (pronounced ah-sigh-ee) and their related products are...
California
El Segundo
When You Don\'t Want It.. Where Is It Needed??
It is hard to know what to do with them. In order to help lower the grocery bill in our own household, we purchased six laying hens. As I was peeling the last of a dozen and a half five gallon buckets of fruits and vegetables, I looked around me and saw...
California
El Segundo
Tips for Pest-Free Tomatoes
America's favorite backyard crop is a favorite food for pests as well! You'll want to monitor your tomato plants for pest activity throughout the growing season. Also, consider heritage varieties common to your area that may have natural resistance to...
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Philadelphia
Plums - The Wonder Fruit, How to Grow It.
Care needs to be taken to plant different varieties of plums to insure pollination of the fruit. When the fruits are the size of shooter marbles take off all but one fruit in each bunch.
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El Segundo
So you don\'t like fruitcake...
I have never been disappointed, and in addition to my own fruitcakes, it is nice to know I can order one from them whenever I find myself out of the baking mood.I would like to be able to send you free samples, but since I never have any extra to share,...
California
El Segundo
All Around the Mulberry Bush (or Tree)
Just be sure, if you sing with your children, to sing "all around the mulberry TREE!".Picture courtesy of Thaumaturgist.Thumbnail picture courtesy of Imagine my surprise to find out that most mulberry bushes are in fact trees! Let's find out more about...
California
El Segundo
An uncommon harvest: The Shipova
This accumulation causes earlier bearing and larger fruits.The tree, which would normally start producing fruit in its eighth year, started producing in its fourth.A second consequence of bark inversion is a dwarfing effect, since it causes the tree to...
California
El Segundo
Pears - and How To Grow Them
Even for small varieties, the trees need to be planted to the point that the branches do not touch each other or another tree. This tree might not be the most popular but, all in all, this tree is great for the garden and among the longest lived trees...
California
El Segundo
Pomegranate Penchant
Please feel free to share your favorite recipes, memories or comments below. (Regular, deep watering may help reduce the number of thorns.) Below is a wonderful picture of a flower, used by lunavox's permission, from Dave's Garden Plant Files:There are...
California
El Segundo