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By RANDALL DICKERSON Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE (AP) — The tomatoes are done for the year, the corn is in the freezer and the applesauce is being put up. So what do gardeners do now? Anticipating the winter seed catalogs like a child waits for Christmas, gardeners — an increasing number of them first-timers — dream about vegetable varieties they have yet to grow. Ag experts and sales numbers indicate there’s a renewed interest in home gardening.

Microgreens Get Florida Farmers Thinking Small

Fri, 08/29/2008 - 13:53 — gardenspot

Released May 14, 2008

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Every year for nearly two decades, Florida farmers have gathered at the Suwannee Valley Twilight Field Day to hone their craft, often learning how to grow more luscious and larger fruits and vegetables. This year, however, there was a new lesson being offered: how to grow small.

Dubbed one of 2008’s culinary buzzwords by National Public Radio, microgreens—vegetables harvested soon after sprouting—are expected to be one of this summer’s hottest food trends, as well as a boon to many small specialty farms that provide them to restaurants and farmers’ markets.

Experts at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences are helping farmers take advantage of the phenomenon.

Growing Organic Vegetables - Useful Tips

Fri, 03/14/2008 - 05:56 — Arden

Are you fed up with vegetables grown out of season, from who knows where which may look bright and shiny but which taste of absolutely nothing? Are you frightened as to what all those pesticides and other chemicals are doing to your family’s health?

Well the answer is simple; grow your own organic vegetables and fruit. You will need to be prepared to devote quite some time and effort but the end result will be well worth it. Just think of those wholesome, tasty fruits and vegetables which you’ll be able to put on your table at all times of the year.

Swiss Chard

Swiss chard is the succulent leafy green tops and whitish stems of a beet plant; the leaves of Swiss chard are much larger than those of the common beet. The name, Swiss chard, is often shortened to "chard" and is sometimes called "leaf beet" or "sea-kale beet."

Rhubarb

Rhubarb is a perennial plant that grows from thick short rhizomes, comprising the genus Rheum. This genus is in the family Polygonaceae, along with dock, sorrel, knotweeds, knotgrasses and buckwheat. The large, somewhat triangular leaf blades are elevated on long, fleshy petioles. The flowers are small, greenish-white, and borne in large compound leafy inflorescences.

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