Growing Blooms, Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit
There are several ways to rotate your annual veggie and fruit crops. The first one is by Plant Families.  I am not including flowers/blooms, herbs, perennial veggies and perennial fruits. Part of the reason is that I have a bed by the patio that I use for my herb garden, an area outside of my […]
The Amaranth Family has a formal name which is Amaranthaceae. Let chat about some of the members: Veggies:  Swiss chard, beets, spinach, purslane Grain: Quinoa Herbs: Epazote Flowers & Blooms: Amaranth, Globe Amaranth, Cockscomb/Celosia, Portulaca Similarities:  Purslane and portulaca are both succulents. The leaves for all the veggies listed above can be eaten. While I […]
There are some grains, a veggie and some ornamental blooms in the Grass Family or Poaceae Family.  Here are some of the members that you might find in a garden: Veggies:  Corn Grains: Barley, millet, oats, rye, rice, sugarcane, wheat Blooms:  Bamboo, pampas grass, plume grass, straw and thatch Similarities:  For the most part grasses have alternating leaves […]
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