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Growing healthy with a hands-on garden

April 05, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

At his family’s Carson home, Rodger Triplett has grown a bounty of corn, zucchini and pumpkins.
This week, the ninth-grader at Carson High brought his green thumb to the school to help plant a garden behind the campus near 223rd Street that may eventually provide vegetables to the cafeteria.
To go hand-in-hand with the garden, a trade [...]

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The Facts About Squash and Melon

November 29, 2006 By: Momoy Category: Plants

by National Gardening Association Editors
There are many old myths about the freak results of cross-pollination between cucumbers and melons, pumpkins and squashes prevail, and most need clearing up.
Crossing Squashes
Mixed breeding of melons or squash only matters if you want to save seed from one year for the next. Unlike corn, which can cross the first [...]

Size does matter when it comes to zucchinis

August 25, 2006 By: Momoy Category: Plants

QA friend has given me an enormous zucchini from his garden. Is it edible?
ABeware those killer zucchinis! Gardeners often offer them to unsuspecting folks at this time of year. They certainly aren’t poisonous, but your friend’s “gift” is unlikely to be a culinary delight either.
This Italian veggie actually tastes best when it’s only a [...]

Saving garden seeds has advantages

August 05, 2006 By: Momoy Category: Flowers, Garden, Plants

Considering all of those seed catalogs that come in the mail over the winter, each offering hundreds of vegetable varieties, why would a gardener bother to collect seeds from the garden to start next year’s crop of tomatoes, beans, cucumbers or squash? Why undertake the effort of harvesting, cleaning, drying, and storing your own seed? [...]

HEIRLOOM VEGETABLE CULTIVARS

August 01, 2006 By: Momoy Category: Garden, Plants

Beans
Beans of all kinds are very popular heirloom vegetables. There are thousand of cultivars, with huge variations in taste, size, color and markings, and climate adaptability.
Beans are usually not cross-pollinated. Separate plantings by enough distance to avoid having their vines intertwine. Allow the seed to thoroughly mature on the vine. Pull the entire plant and [...]

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Pasta with zucchini flowers, grape tomatoes and pecorino

* 12 zucchini flowers with zucchini attached * 4 cups (330g) Bio-Nature Organic * Garganelli Pasta* *

Size does matter when it comes to zucchinis

QA friend has given me an enormous zucchini from his garden. Is it edible? ABeware those killer zucchinis! Gardeners often offer them to unsuspecting folks at this time of year.

Maltese Cross flower

A couple of weeks back I visited The Eden Project in Cornwall, UK, which houses more than a million plants representing 5,000 species from many of the climatic zones

The Facts About Squash and Melon

by National Gardening Association Editors There are many old myths about the freak results of cross-pollination between cucumbers and melons, pumpkins and squashes prevail, and most need clearing up. Crossing Squashes Mixed breeding

Saving garden seeds has advantages

Considering all of those seed catalogs that come in the mail over the winter, each offering hundreds of vegetable varieties, why would a gardener bother to collect seeds from the

Easter garden blooms at All Saints

AN EASTER garden has been a part of the seasonal decor at All Saints Anglican Church on Marli Street, for nearly 15 years now. The garden was created by Mavis Carrington,

Italian soup packed with flavor

My son didn't order a salad, although the rest of us did, but he did get a bowl of minestrone to start his meal. After I had finished my salad,

SAVING SEEDS

Saving your own vegetable seed is fun. It offers a sense of self-sufficiency and saves money. You can maintain a variety that is not available commercially. There are certain considerations
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