White ZZ plants are not exactly “White” but have a tint of yellow and white on the leaves, which makes them appear very different from the regular green and rare black types.
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Favorite Vegetables to Grow & Preserve Meg Cowden shares her favorite vegetables to grow, eat & preserve to extend her garden harvest each year. Grow vegetables you can also preserve
Meg Cowden’s spends a lot of time in her Minnesota vegetable garden. Using a variety of succession planting techniques, her goal is to grow enough food to feed and preserve for her family. Learn about how she maximizes her harvest with succession planting. Meg plants a variety of vegetables in her garden every season and I asked her to share a few plants that she loves to grow, eat and preserve from her garden each year. Read on for some of her recommendations.
Cranberry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)Cranberry bean is a stunning multi-purposed dry bean. Seeds can be sown every 2 weeks from early spring to midsummer for a continual harvest. This variety is a mix between a bush bean and a pole bean: Plants don’t have tendrils to climb trellises, but they grow up to 6 feet tall and will need to be staked using a trellis like the one above for support. Just guide the beans up your desired structure.
Cranberry beans are typically grown as a shelling bean, they can also be harvested immature and eaten fresh as a string bean. For drying and storage for later use, allow the pods to turn brown on the plant. Cranberry beans mature in 70 to 80 days.
Seed Source: Territorial Seed Company, 800-626-0866
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Meg describes ‘Tom Thumb’ corn as an “adorable, fun and easy-to-grow crop that is smaller in size and matures quickly.” ‘Tom Thumb’ grows only 3 feet tall and produces a classic yellow kernel. These plants need full
White ZZ plants are not exactly “White” but have a tint of yellow and white on the leaves, which makes them appear very different from the regular green and rare black types.
Oxalis triangularis, also known as false shamrock, is an eye-catching bulbous perennial that makes an excellent and long-lived house plant. Bold, dramatic foliage in shades of dark purple to wine-red creates a striking contrast to blush-white flowers borne in summer. The leaves are three-lobed, hence the name of shamrock which it resembles, though is not actually related to. Oxalis triangularis is native to from Brazil. Its leaves have extra fascination because they open during the day and close at night.
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Common beech (Fagus sylvatica) is one of the most majestic of European native trees, yet also makes an excellent formal hedge as it tolerates regular clipping. Although deciduous, beech is still good to use as a screening hedge as growth is dense, twiggy, and the dead leaves usually remain on the branches for much of the winter, often until the new leaves appear in spring. There are both green and purple-leaved varieties of common beech which are suitable for hedging. The purple-leaved form (Fagus sylvatica ‘Purpurea’ is commonly known as copper beech. To grow as individual trees, the common beech species becomes too big for all but the largest gardens, but there are columnar (fastigiate) and weeping forms of beech that are much more compact in size.
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This article has been checked for horticultural accuracy by Oliver Parsons.
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