Potatoes are one of the most versatile vegetables around–as well as one of my most favorite! When stored properly, your potato crop will last throughout most of the winter. Potato Facts There are more than 80 varieties of potatoes. The most common variety is the brown Russet potato, which is long and cylindrical in shape.…
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How to grow cucumbers in your garden.
The versatile cucumber (cucumis sativus) is tasty pickled, in a salad, as a salad, in a sandwich, or just eaten raw. How to grow cucumbers depends largely in part on how you plan to eat them. Cucumbers come in over 120 varieties that range from small picklers to large slicers and from dark green to…
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Asparagus is a perennial plant with erect, edible stems and tiny branches that bear even tinier flowers that become red berries that contain the black Asparagus seed. Formerly in the Liliaceae family, botanists have realized that Asparagus is in a class by itself and have repositioned its 120 species in the Asparagaceae genus. Asparagus is…
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