Category Archive: Vegetable & Fruit

All posts related to vegetables and fruits.

Jun 14

How To Tell The Difference Between Male And Female Squash Blossoms.

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Once you know the difference and learn from The Kitchen that there are many more male blossoms than female you can then pick a lot of the male blossoms to add to the menu. Stuffed squash blossoms are delicious.

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Jun 13

Top Thirteen GREENS – How to Select, Store and Prepare !

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Live Better America website shares a guide to the top thirteen greens we should all be eating. Each variety has information how to select, store and prepare. Take special note at the end of each section this is a click-able link that will take you to even more knowledge.

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Jun 13

How to Grow Peanuts

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Grow your own peanuts and then you will have them and you can make your own peanut butter. I’m still working shows you how in this video. One good thing she mentions is that they are pretty much pest free so that would make for less work.

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Jun 11

How to Prune Tomato Plants

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Grow better veggies has some really good tips on tomatoes. They tell us how to prune and remove some of the foliage to allow more air and light into the plant which helps cut down on pests and produce more tomatoes.    If you look further down on the same page they give great advice …

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Jun 06

Guide to Growing Brussels Sprouts

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Your gardening info shares info and tips on growing brussels sprouts. They tell us all about soil and what to add to it, when to harvest and tips for maximum yield. I love brussels sprouts in stir fry. mmm

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Jun 06

Why Do Tomato’s Crack

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I had always thought that my tomatoes cracked because they got watered when the fruit was too hot from the sun. I was wrong.  Alternative energy gardning tells us what causes these cracks and what we can do to prevent them. They also tell us that we can still eat the cracked tomatoes as long …

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Jun 02

Starting Strawberry Plants from Runners

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Harvest To Table website shares how to transplant strawberry runners into your garden. This article has great tips when to cut runners from your strawberry patch and replant to enlarge your harvest yield. Replanted strawberry runners will not produce the first year but will the following spring.

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Jun 01

How To Grow Big Bulb Onions

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LDS Prepper has a great video on how to get your onions to make the biggest bulbs possible. Very interesting. I never knew this. If you are going to grow onions why not grow them as big as you can while you are at it.

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Jun 01

Succession Planting: Lettuce, Carrots, and More

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Great article from Mother earth news on how to grow carrots in succession so you can have fresh carrots almost all year in the south east and I would think a lot of months elsewhere. They also give us a tip on planting radishes and carrots together and tell us why which I found to …

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May 21

The tricky matter of when to harvest garlic

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Away to garden shows us and tells when the best time is to harvest your garlic. I always thought they were like onions and you had to wait till all the leaves died. Glad I learned different from this article. My garlic is up and growing but I sure would have waited to long. Now …

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