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Category: Edible Plants

What Is A Kitchen Garden or Potager?

June 12, 2022June 12, 2022
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Arbors, Beans, Edible Plants, Herbs, Kitchen Garden, Pineapple Sage, Scarecrows, Tomato, Vegetables

I have read that as people began planting their food, as opposed to hunting and gathering for it, the first kitchen gardens began.  With that in mind, we might call any place where we grow food a kitchen garden–what the

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June 12, 2022June 12, 2022
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Boneset or Bindweed, Edible Plants, Herbs, Medicinal Plants

Early last summer, I was sorting through the last of my garden center’s perennial starts, and I spied a sprig of something that had somehow seeded itself in the same container of the plant that was packaged for sale. I

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Cooking with Herbs from Vaughan’s Vegetable Cook Book Published in 1919

August 6, 2021August 11, 2021
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Edible Plants, Herbs

French Endive or Witloof Chicory A Wholesome and Useful Winter Vegetable How to Grow. Sow the seed in Spring on well prepared land 1 ft. apart in rows, and thin out same as parsnips. Lift the roots in fall. These roots

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Fifty Superb Recipes from Spice Islands Published in 1959

August 6, 2021
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Edible Plants, Spices

“Dill ’n’ Onion Dip” ⅔ cup mayonnaise ⅔ cup sour cream 1 tablespoon SPICE ISLANDS Shredded Green Onion 1 tablespoon SPICE ISLANDS Shredded Parsley 1 teaspoon SPICE ISLANDS Dill Weed 1 teaspoon SPICE ISLANDS BEAU MONDE Seasoning Mix together mayonnaise

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Spices: A Textbook Published by McCormick in 1915 with Vintage Illustrations

August 6, 2021August 6, 2021
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Edible Plants, Spices

Pepper and Capsicums Pepper is the dried berry of the pepper-plant (Piper nigrum), a climbing vine ten to twelve feet high, indigenous to the East Indies, but cultivated in many tropical countries. White Pepper This is obtained by decorticating or

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