a pretty vegetable garden
When I first started growing vegetables, I worried the veggie plot would look too utilitarian, […]
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Aromatics come in two flavors: kitchen herbs and medicinals. A few herbs cross over from […]
View Articlepurple beans
If I knew how much I would enjoy purple beans, I would only have planted […]
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Throughout my childhood, my grandmother did not let a day pass her by without extolling […]
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Most herbs love sunshine, as is fitting for the dwellers of the open plains and windswept limestone cliffs of the Mediterranean shores. They thrive in bright sunlight and love the wind in their hair...
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stinging nettles
Stinging nettles are quite amazing plants, full of qualities both medicinal and nutritional, but who cares when their blistering touch burns like judgment and brings you to tears? Setting aside the...
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peppercorn plants
You look at this modest spice and find it hard to believe than all through Antiquity and the Middle Ages it was more valuable than gold. Pepper was the first of the exotic spices to reach the...
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kitchen garden flowers
When I started my vegetable garden I embraced the tradition of planting “kitchen gardenflowers” to make it look pretty. A potager is beautiful enough in and of itself, the bean flowers come in...
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The Makings of a Vegetable Garden
Even for those of us with a more relaxed attitude towards garden design, a vegetable garden demands discipline. For one, you don’t want to question whether the contents of your herb wheel are edible,...
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The New Veggie Garden
The date of the last frost came and went and I eagerly set out to plant this year’s vegetable garden. I will say the seedlings were ‘hardened’ for a couple of weeks, although theirexperience was to...
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