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Kitchen Garden Measurement – Harvest to Table
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Kitchen Garden Measurement – Harvest to Table

How big should a kitchen garden be? Two more questions: How much space do you have? How much ground can you care for? A small garden that provides the vegetables you will eat is better than a vegetable plot that produces more than you can use or give away. A small garden that you can

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Ginger: Kitchen Basics – Harvest to Table
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Ginger: Kitchen Basics – Harvest to Table

Half spicy and peppery, half lemony, slightly sweet but pungent: that’s how you might describe the flavor of ginger. Ginger is used as a flavoring for both sweet and savory dishes and is one of the key ingredients in the cookery of China, Japan, Southeast Asia, India, the Caribbean, and North Africa. Ginger is added

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Cherimoya: Kitchen Basics – Harvest to Table
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Cherimoya: Kitchen Basics – Harvest to Table

Got cherimoya? Got spoon? You are ready for a tasty pineapple-papaya-banana-pear flavored treat that deserves its aliases “custard apple” and “sherbet fruit”. The cherimoya is nothing less than a tropical dessert on the half shell. The cherimoya’s flesh is juicy and creamy custardy. Its sweet flavors will swirl in your mouth. There are only one

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Grape Sorts and Sorts – Harvest to Table
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Grape Sorts and Sorts – Harvest to Table

Grapes can be broadly categorized as either table grapes or wine grapes, though many grapes can be used as both. Table and wine grapes. Table grapes are eaten out of hand or used in baking and cooking. Wine grapes are used for making wine. Grapes can also be used for making raisins or for producing

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Grapefruit Toppings – Harvest to Table
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Grapefruit Toppings – Harvest to Table

Grapefruit can be sweet and a tad bitter or loud and sour. Grapefruit is well matched with avocado, Campari, Champagne, crab, fresh ginger, honey, lemon, lime, fresh mint, pomegranate, and brown or white sugar. To simply eat grapefruit out of hand with a spoon try one of the following toppings for each grapefruit half: 1

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Grapefruit Sorts – Harvest to Table
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Grapefruit Sorts – Harvest to Table

Here’s a quick reference for grapefruit varities: Duncan: lots of seeds, white flesh with great flavor; excellent for juicing; perhaps the oldest variety. Flame: nearly seedless with red flesh and a slight rind blush. Marsh (Marsh Seedless): nearly seedless, white-fleshed, medium-size with smooth yellow skin; it’s very juicy, tender and aromatic. You’ll find a balance

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Green Lacewing and Aphid Lion: Really useful Insect
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Green Lacewing and Aphid Lion: Really useful Insect

Green lacewing adult The larva of the green lacewing bug is a voracious predator of soft-bodied pest insects including aphids, whiteflies, and the caterpillars of many pest moths. One lacewing larva—also known as an aphid lion—can devour 100 aphids in a week. One or two or three larva in each square foot of a garden

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Increase Shallots in Raised Beds
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Increase Shallots in Raised Beds

Delicate flavored shallots grow best in slightly sandy, well-drained soil. Where the soil is even a bit heavy with clay, you will get the best results growing shallots in raised beds evenly amended with organic matter such as aged compost. Plant shallots—like onions—early in the season. Leafy top growth which nourishes the bulbs comes during

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Emerging Strawberries in Sizzling Summer time Climates
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Emerging Strawberries in Sizzling Summer time Climates

The secret to getting a good strawberry harvest in hot summer climates—where daytime temperatures are consistently greater than 85°F–is to have strawberries ready for picking in mid-winter, not in late spring or early summer as in cooler summer regions. Early spring is the traditional time to set out strawberries but where summers are hot, a

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Emerging Tomatoes on Stakes – Harvest to Table
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Emerging Tomatoes on Stakes – Harvest to Table

Tomato plants trained to single stakes Grow tomatoes on stakes to ripen fruits earlier than unstaked plants. Grow tomatoes on stakes to keep fruit cleaner and easier to spot at harvest. You can grow almost twice as many staked tomatoes in a given area than if you let plants grow unstaked or even caged. Tomatoes

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