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Food Gardening 101 It's a great treat to go shopping in your own garden to harvest fresh food. A small, well-tended garden can be just as productive as a large one that is ignored, so it is a good idea to start small and expand it as you need more space. |
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Second Harvest July is the perfect month to start thinking about the fall garden. Many of the vegetables you've enjoyed from the garden this spring and early summer can be grown and harvested this fall as well. |
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The magic in vegetables The scientific and marketing imperatives mount for working phytochemicals into your food products. |
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Get A Head The reason a lot of people start taking cabbage for granted is that it often turns out to be too much of a good thing. With a little planning before you plant, you can arrange your harvest according to your needs. |
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Hungarian Peppers Eastern Europe's finest varieties are now available to U.S. gardeners... |
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Foods You Should Eat Daily - Part II The following five foods -- coupled with the ones listed in Part I -- are some of the world's healthiest items you should be consuming everyday. |
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Food is Medicine Yep, Mom was right! Fruits and vegetables are good for you. And nutrition educators have hit on a handy way to help consumers put this information to practical use: Eat a rainbow! |
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Vitamin C 101 Although it's commonly known as the vitamin that helps prevent the common cold, vitamin C does much more. |
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Tomato Diseases Forewarned is forearmed: how to read your tomato leaves. |
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Choosing Tomato Varieties Healthy, vigorous tomato vines can produce a lot of fruit. But of the thousands of varieties available, how do you narrow your choices? |
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Persimmons Consider the many virtues of persimmons, one of the most widely grown "exotic" fruits. |
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Super Organics Forget Frankenfruit - the new-and-improved flavor of gene science is Earth-friendly and all-natural. Welcome to the golden age of smart breeding. |
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New Vegetable Varieties National Gardening Seed Testers have evaluate new vegetable varieties in their backyard gardens one year in advance of these varieties being released for sale. This year's top 5 winners include an All America Selections winning pepper, plus a bush tomato, red lettuce, red radish, and a green bean... |
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AskMen.com Dustin Driver |
Healthy Seasonal Eating The following fruits and veggies are in their prime for healthy seasonal eating during the summer months in North America, and they'll be tasty and affordable at your local supermarket. |
Seasoned Cooking September 2006 J. Sinclair |
Bell Peppers Bell peppers are good for you and good to eat -- proven by this recipe for Creole Stuffed Peppers. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Grow Space-Saving Tomatoes If you only have a small garden, there are varieties of tomatoes that will fit perfectly into the space. |
National Gardening Elizabeth Hiser |
Eat Well For good health, eat more fruits, vegetables, and grains, and don't rely on vitamin pills. Here's why. |
AskMen.com Dustin Driver |
Antioxidants Here's the lowdown on antioxidants, where to find them and what they can do for you and your health. |
Food Processing February 2009 |
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National Gardening |
Maintaining a Vegetable Garden Healthy, vigorous vegetable plants produce the most flavorful and bountiful harvests. Give your garden plants the moisture and nutrients they need, and keep them weeded and harvested for tasty and nutritious crops. |
Prepared Foods July 1, 2009 Kerry Hughes |
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AskMen.com May 8, 2003 Sarah Keefe |
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National Gardening |
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AskMen.com Dustin Driver |
Manly Veggies Manly veggies don't just invoke manliness by their appearance, they're truly good for the men who eat them making them stronger, faster, better; more alert, more productive and happier. Read on to discover which manly veggies you should eat to maximize your machismo. |
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R&D: Colors Claim More Than One Role Colors, in the form of beta-carotene powders or emulsions, allow food processors to both color their products and make antioxidant claims. |
Garden Gate |
More Unusual Potatoes There are all kinds of unusual, gourmet potatoes becoming available these days. Exotic varieties that could only be obtained by the fanciest restaurants are now showing up in the local food stores right next to their more common cousins. And you can grow these spuds in your home garden. |
Science News December 3, 2005 Janet Raloff |
Fruits and Veggies Limit Inflammatory Protein (with recipe) A new trial finds that eating plenty of fruits and vegetables reduces an inflammatory protein linked to elevated blood concentrations in debilitating illness. |
Food Processing August 2008 |
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National Gardening Deborah Wechsler |
Growing Giant Tomatoes All about growing really humongous plants and tomatoes |
AskMen.com Dustin Driver |
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National Gardening Shila Patel |
Drying Tomatoes Drying tomatoes is simple and the results -- delicious |