Kale is a healthy and delicious cool-season vegetable that produces well into fall. A diverse array beautiful and edible cultivars are available. Read Kale: Delicious, Nutritious, and Easy to Grow
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Growing FoodPlant Choices
Kale: Delicious, Nutritious, and Easy to Grow
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Garden DesignGrowing Food
A Blended Garden
A blended garden is one that weaves edible and ornamental plants in the same garden bed or container. There isn’t a strict line as to where the flower garden stops and the vegetable garden starts. Read A Blended Garden
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Garden DesignGrowing FoodUrban Gardening
Herbes de Provence: An Elegant, Potted-Garden Design
Longing to visit Provence, that beautiful and charming region in the south of France, to bask in its warm sunlight, taste its delicious cuisine, and see the sloping vineyards and colorful scenery that charmed Cezanne and Van Gogh? Well, you can capture some of the ambience of Provence by growing its famous culinary herbs in your garden. Read Herbes de Provence: An Elegant, Potted-Garden Design
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Spring Beauty—A Woodland Wildflower With Tasty Tubers
One of our prettiest and earliest-blooming wildflowers—spring beauty (Claytonia virginica)—is also a delicious vegetable. Read Spring Beauty—A Woodland Wildflower With Tasty Tubers
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HouseplantsGrowing Food
A Houseplant Harvest—Tropical Trees That Really Do Fruit Indoors
I've been collecting and propagating fruiting tropical shrubs and small trees on my four-acre property in Vieques, Puerto Rico, like a man with a mission. My ultimate goal is to supply my own table with a diverse mix of fresh produce year-round, grow enough surplus fruit to be able to vend to local restaurateurs, and establish a modest nursery and display garden. Read A Houseplant Harvest—Tropical Trees That Really Do Fruit Indoors
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Elements of a Perfect Apple Pie
The prize-winning apple pie marries an exemplary crust with tree-ripened apples that contribute acid, tannin, sugar, and flavor. Read Elements of a Perfect Apple Pie
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Growing Food
The Makings of a Good Cider
For at least 2,000 years, humans have been making apple cider wherever they could grow the fruit. Read The Makings of a Good Cider
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Growing FoodPlant Choices
Antique Apples: A Guide for Eaters and Growers
Most antique or heirloom apples are distant cousins to the commercial varieties available on supermarket shelves today. While modern varieties such as 'Red Delicious' have been selected for their consistent appearance, cosmetic appeal, and tolerance of long shipping and repeated handling, antique varieties were often selected for their cider-making quality ('Golden Russet'), their retention of flavor and firmness without refrigeration ('Winesap' and 'Baldwin'), or their intense and unusual flavor—without regard to external appearance. Read Antique Apples: A Guide for Eaters and Growers
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Growing Food
Rose Water—An Age-Old Flavoring for Dinner and Dessert
Rose water has left an indelible mark on human history. This clear, sweet-tasting, aromatic liquid has been used in perfumery, cosmetics, and medicine for many centuries. In Middle Eastern and West Asian countries, it has long been used as a flavoring in cooking. Read Rose Water—An Age-Old Flavoring for Dinner and Dessert
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Growing FoodPlant Choices
Mexican Oregano—A Tasty Twist on an Age-Old Flavor
After a lifetime of growing edible plants, I've come to the conclusion that "oregano" should be a botanical category of aroma and taste rather than the common name for any one herb. Read Mexican Oregano—A Tasty Twist on an Age-Old Flavor