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Article
Episode 9: Which Tomato Varieties Are Tops?
We go beyond ‘Big Boy’ and ‘Early Girl’ to discuss some truly unique—and delicious—options
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Kitchen Gardening
Great New Tomato Varieties
In the last 10 years, tomatoes have undergone a renaissance of sorts. The number of new varieties filling the pages of seed catalogs is mind-boggling, even for a tomato breeder…
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Article
The Best Veggies for Your Region
Are you really a bad vegetable gardener—or are you just growing the wrong veggies? According to experts that we’ve asked from across the country, many crop failures can be attributed…
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Kitchen Gardening
Miniature Fruits and Veggies That Tout Big Flavor
In the vegetable garden, “Good things come in small packages” is more than just a cliché. While a standard eggplant or a soccer-ball-size cabbage makes a meal for a family…
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How-To
Fast-Growing Vegetable Varieties for Short-Season Regions
Gardening in regions with cool, short summers like the Pacific Northwest and northern New England can create challenging conditions for heat-loving crops. For folks in the extreme South, heat can…
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Kitchen Gardening
Top Tomato Choices for 2016
The end of summer is a good time to evaluate what grew well in the garden and make a few notes for next season. Here's my tomato roundup for 2016.
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Kitchen Gardening
Candyland Tomatoes Make a Sweet Garden Treat
One of the newest award winners from All-America Selections is a currant-size tomato named for the classic children’s board game. These tomatoes are sweet and fun to grow.
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Kitchen Gardening
8 Outstanding New Veggies 2016
Wouldn’t it be great to have gardening friends who would grow all of those tempting new vegetable varieties you read about in catalogs, and tell you which were most worthy…
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Kitchen Gardening
Learn the Basics of Growing Basil
There’s a reason that even those who don’t have a vegetable garden still try to grow basil: because it’s delicious and almost as versatile in the landscape as it is…
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How-To
Easy-to-Grow Sweet Peppers
Growing sweet peppers at home is easy, fun, and rewarding. Besides the ever-popular bell peppers that ripen from green to red, there are bells of different sizes and colors and…