Blueberries and lavender are in season now. So is ice cream! Read Eat Local: Homemade Blueberry Lavender Ice Cream
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Eat Local: Homemade Blueberry Lavender Ice Cream
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Red Sorrel
Grow this mallow family member in your garden and use its unusual seedpods to make a tasty Caribbean beverage. Read Red Sorrel
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Growing FoodPlant Choices
Agastache: Fragrant Foliage and Colorful Blooms
This lovely, sweet-smelling mint relative will add color and attract pollinators to you garden in summer and fall. Read Agastache: Fragrant Foliage and Colorful Blooms
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Growing FoodPlant Choices
The Asparagus Pea
This pretty legume has deep red flowers and lovely frilled seedpods, which are edible and taste like asparagus. They are delicious in a salad with shrimp, tofu, and chile paste (recipe included). Read The Asparagus Pea
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Red-Stemmed Malabar Spinach
Easy to grow and delicious to eat, this vigorous vine is unrelated to true spinach but produces abundant large leaves that are remarkably spinachlike. It's also much better suited for summer growing than its better-known namesake. Read Red-Stemmed Malabar Spinach
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Growing Chile Peppers Indoors
It's a challenge to grow chile peppers indoors. Like tomatoes, they need an environment that's warmer and brighter than most homes. However, growing chiles indoors is a worthwhile project if you don't have a garden. Read Growing Chile Peppers Indoors
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Growing Food
Learn to How to Create a Potager: A French Kitchen Garden
In the French kitchen garden or potager, gardeners have intermingled vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs since medieval times. Learn how to plan and select plants for a beautiful and productive potager. Read Learn to How to Create a Potager: A French Kitchen Garden
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Growing FoodEdible Plants & Recipes
Recipe: Apple-Fennel Sauerkraut
Homemade sauerkraut is easy to make and surprisingly delicious. Pair this tasty variation with sausage or roast pork, or add it to potato salad, chicken salad, or stuffing. Read Recipe: Apple-Fennel Sauerkraut
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Herb Garden Harvest
What happens to all of the beautiful produce grown in BBG's Herb Garden? Read Herb Garden Harvest
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Growing FoodEdible Plants & Recipes
Recipe: Easy Summer Ratatouille
This simple French vegetable stew is delicious with crumbled goat cheese on pasta, alongside roasted chicken, or accompanying a fresh baguette. Read Recipe: Easy Summer Ratatouille