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Strawberry Tips for Tasty Super Berries!

Posted in Amendments, Antioxidant, Bat - Seabird Guano, Birds, Community Gardens, Disease, Fertilzer, Fish - Kelp, Manure, Nutrition Specifics, Pests, Seeds, SeedSaving, Skunks, Snails & Slugs, Strawberries, Veggies!, Watering, tagged 0-10-10, 200, abundant, alpine, Angular, antioxidant, Barker, barrier, bee, berry, bird, black, blight, bloom, blueberries, bread, Bright, bug, bunnies, cake, California, cat-faced, certified, Chandler, cheese, cheesecake, chewed, chicken, chocolate, chocolatier, circulation, climate, close, cloudy, cluster, cold, commercial, common, community, cones, cool, cosmetic, cream, critter, cucumber, daughter, David, Davis, day neutral, daybreak, debris, dipped, disease, distant, dry, early, earth, emulsion, everbearer, fall, family, feed, fertilizer, fiber, fish, flat, flight, flower, forage, fruit, fungicide, fungus, garden, growth, grub, guano, hands, harvest, height, hive, hole, hot, humidity, hungry, ice cream, inside, Integrated Pest Management, IPM, irregular, July, June, kelp, large, leaf, Leaf Spot, leaves, lemonade, local, Lygus Hesperus, mammoth, manganese, manure, misshapen, mulch, multiple, Muskmelon, N, NCSU, net, Nitrogen, noon, November, Nursery, nutrition, October, open, order, Oso Grande, out, overwater, peck, perimeter, phosphorus, pie, Pilgrim Terrace, pine needle, plastic, plump, pollination, pollinator, possum, potassium, produce, pumpkin, raccoon, Rebecca, Red, reliable, relocate, remove, resistant, root, rose, runner, sauce, saving, seabird, Seascape, seeds, set, shade, shake, shape, shortcake, silvery, skunk, slime, slug, sluggo, small, snail, SoCal, Soil, Southern, split, spot, spray, spread, spring, spring bearer, squash, state, storms, strawberries, sun, sunday, super, Syrah, Tarnished, tasty, temp, thrive, tip, tips, traditional, trail, trellis, UC, under, uproot, uptake, US, USDA, variety, vegetable, Vitamin C, warm, wash, water, watermelon, weather, weight, well-drained, western, whipped, wind, wire, worm, yellow, yield, yoghurt on June 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Strawberries are in the Rose family. The average berry has 200 seeds, the only fruit whose seeds are on its exterior surface! The seeds are really the fruit! Usually grown from runner daughters, they will grow from seed. Just throw down caps you bit the berry from. Sooner or later, you will have a plant [...]

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Broccoli! Beautiful and valuable to your health!

Posted in Antioxidant, Aphids, Blood Meal, Brassicas, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Cilantro, Community Gardens, Companion Plant, Compost, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fertilzer, Fish - Kelp, Heat Tolerant, Lettuce, Manure, Mycorrhizae, Nutrition Specifics, Pests, Seeds, SeedSaving, Soil, Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm, Varieties, Veggies!, Watering, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged 35, A, ACS, AK, Alaska, American Cancer Society, anthocyanins, anticancer, antioxidant, aphid, apples, blindness, blood meal, bolt, brain, Brassica, broccoli, bud, cabbage, Cabbage Moth, Calabrese, calcium, cancer, cauliflower, Center, cilantro, clubroot, cold, cole, companion, compounds, confuse, cool, cross, Cruiser, days, DeCicco, disease, dry, enegy, ethylene, eyes, fertilizer, fish emulsion, flavor, flower, foliage, fruits, garden, gas, genus, glutamine, Green Comet, Green Goliath, ground, harvest, head, health, heat, hybrid, January, John Evans, kelp, lb, leaves, lettuce, loam, macular degeneration, manure, maturity, moist, moose, mulch, mycorrhizal fungi, N, Nitrogen, Nutribud, nutritious, older, organic, pack, Packman, Palmer, pears, peppery, pH, pods, poison, pollinate, purple, rate, respiration, salad, sandy, seed, seedbed, seedling, shade, short, side shoot, sidedress, Soil, spacing, sprouts, stalk, stir fry, summer, sun, tall, tolerant, tract, transplant, University of Connecticut, urinary, valuable, variety, vegetable, vegetarian, veggie, Vitamin, Waltham 29, water, weather, weed, well-drained, winter, yellow, yield on January 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Broccoli may be the most nutritious of all the cole crops, which are among the most nutritious of all vegetables. Broccoli and cauliflower (and other members of the genus Brassica) contain very high levels of antioxidant and anticancer compounds. These nutrients typically are more concentrated in flower buds than in leaves, and that makes broccoli [...]

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September, Last Tasty Summer Harvests; Time for Brassicas, Celery & Peas

Posted in Antioxidant, Aphids, Biofumigation, Bolt Resistant/Slow Bolting, Brassicas, Broccoflower, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Celery, Collards, Cultural Control, Gophers, Kale, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Peas, Seeds, SeedSaving, White Fly, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged antioxidant, aphid, biofumigation, Brassicas, broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, collards, companion, December, glucosinolate, gopher, harvest, insecticide, journal, kale, kohlrabi, Labor Day, lettuce, natural, November, October, Peas, seed, September, transplant, white fly, winter on September 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The next months…so you can plan ahead! As more of your plants are finishing, make notes about your summer crops in your garden journal. September Let some plants continue to grow for seed saving! First fall planting month! Planting from seeds is fun; transplants produce sooner. Plant Sweet Peas for Christmas bloom! Plant gift plants [...]

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