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Choosing Pea Varieties Peas are fun and easy to raise because they take very little work and mature rapidly. It's possible to grow them in any part of the country, even though English and edible-podded peas prefer cool, moist weather. |
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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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Planting Peas You can plant peas in a number of different fashions. Check to see which one suits your garden best. |
National Gardening Patt Kasa |
Putting the Garden to Bed The short warm days and crisp nights of autumn trigger leaf color changes, and remind me it's time to clean up the garden. |
National Gardening Lynn Ocone |
Planning a Vegetable Garden How to design and build a vegetable garden that really works |
National Gardening Deborah Wechsler |
The Hot New Sugar Snaps We compare 1995 varieties with the original |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
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. |
National Gardening Ben Watson |
Veteran Vegetables While you're planting some of the newest vegetables, don't forget to leave some room for these classics. |
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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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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. |
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Gardening Climates 101 National Gardening has created its own system of 14 "gardening zones." Rather than minimum temperature alone, these regions are defined by largely similar gardening conditions. Expert gardeners in each region report on conditions and happenings in their region twice monthly. |
National Gardening Ben Watson |
Hybrid or Open Pollinated Is one type of vegetable seed better than another? |
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Amazing Annual Vines If you've been growing common vines, like morning glory and sweet peas, consider trying something new this year. Here are a few suggestions. |
National Gardening Veronica Lorson Fowler |
Amazing Annual Vines These speedy climbers offer old-fashioned charm and quick landscape solutions |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Getting Gardens Ready for Winter While gardeners in warmer climes (USDA zones 8 to 10) relish the cool air because it signals fall planting time, most gardeners across the country know it's time to wrap up the garden. |
This Old House Roger Cook |
Right Plant, Right Spot Follow these 4 rules for plant shopping and you'll never end up with a garden misfit |
This Old House Therese Ciesinski |
Check out These Seeds From Your Local Library Of the roughly 17,000 public libraries across the country, about 350 are now "lending" seeds, up from just a handful 15 years ago. |
Seasoned Cooking May 2009 Philip R. Gantt |
Phil's International Flair One sure fire way to save money in the current economy is to grow some of your own food. |
National Gardening Cheryl Dorschner |
Starting from Seed Tips from an innovative gardener... |
This Old House July 20, 2015 Nicole Fornabaio |
Go-to Gardening Apps Create and keep track of your garden and its care with these mobile apps |
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Powdery Mildew This fungus disease occurs all over the North America and infects a wide variety of plants, including beans, cucurbits, lettuce, and peas. A powdery white growth covers the upper surface of leaves, which eventually turn yellow and dry. |
National Gardening Walter Chandoha |
Picking, Squashing, Fetching... They are three good ways to entice children into the garden. |
Delicious Living June 2005 Elisa Bosley |
What's in Season: June Sugar Snap Peas: How to chose... Preparation tips... Health benefits... Recipe: Soba Noodles with Tempeh and Snap Peas... |
This Old House Kathryn Keller |
Little Green Thumbs When it comes to gardening, kids can't wait to dig in. Here are some ideas to help them get growing. |
Food Processing February 2008 |
Visualize Whirled Peas or the Pulse of the Green Movement Pulses -- peas, beans, chick peas and lentils -- are healthy, versatile, gluten-free and environmentally friendly, proof that great things come in small packages. |
Food Processing August 2008 |
Meeting Health Goals in a Snap General Mills' Green Giant brand offers vegetable varieties targeting specific health goals. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Gardening Folklore has Scientific Roots This kind of folklore is often based on phenology: the relationship between the annual cycles of plants and animals and how they respond to seasonal changes in the environment. It turns out there is scientific basis for these observations. |
Seasoned Cooking September 2007 Ronda L. Carnicelli |
Garden's Full Salad Gardens are overflowing with Mother Nature's best this time of year; enjoy the bounty to its fullest in a salad layered with flavors and textures. |
Science News December 13, 2003 Janet Raloff |
When Drought Reigns, Diets Can Turn Poisonous For many people in drought-stricken Africa, food and water will be in perilously short supply this season. So short, in fact, that some people in Ethiopia are already making the grass pea -- a cousin of the sweet pea -- a dietary staple. But to eat the grass pea is to flirt with possible paralysis. |
Seasoned Cooking April 2010 Ronda L. Carnicelli |
Assembling Salads Spring brings us a wide variety of fresh produce that is just dying to be used in creative salads. |