About Potatoes
1. The potato diet. Potatoes have a bad reputation as a heavy carb food that adds inches to waistlines. But an average spud weighing 3.5
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November 18, 2021
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About Peppers
1. Greek kapto, to bite or to swallow. Peppers and chillis are also known as capsicums. Their botanical name came from the Greek kapto to
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July 15, 2021
About Cucumbers
1. Like broccoli with fewer calories. Cucumbers are among the world’s healthiest foods, containing health-giving lignans and flavonoids, as do broccoli, cabbage, garlic and onions,
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May 13, 2021
Buying Plants
1. Potted plants in bloom (1). At the garden centre, should you buy plants that are already blooming or not? The question has two answers:
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April 29, 2021
About Bananas
1. It’s a berry. A strawberry isn’t, a raspberry isn’t, but a banana is a berry, botanically speaking. So are tomatoes, grapes and eggplants. A
Shauna Dobbie
March 31, 2021
Starting Tomatoes
Starting tomatoes from seeds seems like an easy thing to do, but once you actually do it, there are a number of things to remember.
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March 11, 2021
Edible Garden
1. Plants feed the world. Only plants know how to change the energy of the sun into digestible, edible protein and they do this with
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February 25, 2021
Carrots – Yummy, Crunchy
Carrots are easy to grow and are filled with vitamins and minerals, it’s no wonder they are the vegetable of the year! What is more
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February 11, 2021
Berries in the garden
Do you ever feel like blueberries are so hard to grow it isn’t worth trying and raspberries are so easy to grow they overrun the
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February 8, 2021
About Edible Weeds
Purslane 1. Move over spinach. Purslane, sometimes called portulaca, is an edible weed. It has 10 times the Omega 3 fatty acids found in spinach,
Dorothy Dobbie
February 3, 2021