Vegetables

Peppers are such a colorful vegetable ranging in color from green, red, orange, yellow, and even purple. With hundreds of varieties to choose from you can pick from sweet mild tasting peppers to fiercely hot peppers.

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Tomatoes are usually on the top of every gardeners’ list. For good reason too. Nothing beats the taste of a home grown tomato. Let’s grow tomatoes !

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Lettuce has so many varieties to choose from and nearly all of them are ready to harvest within 65 days. You don’t need a large area to grow lettuce.

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Parsnips are cool-season root vegetables. They are biennial and will produce seeds the second year they are in the ground. What do they taste like? They are a starchy vegetable that can be bitter sweet, like a carrot. Cold temperatures makes the vegetable sweeter.

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Cabbage is part of the Brassicaceae plant family. It is a cool season vegetable that is easy to grow. Cabbage is great for stews, soups and salads. You can also make homemade coleslaw or fry cabbage as a side dish.

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Beets are cool-season root vegetables. They are part of the Amaranthaceae family, so they are related to spinach.

Beets are not the only edible part of the plant. The leaves of a beet plant are edible as well.

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