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Brassicaceae

Plants of the Brassicaceae family are very healthy, and they share their bounty right when we need it most: winter!

Tatsoi

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Romanesco

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Pak choi

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Deeply charred pointed cabbage wedges on a rustic platter, glossy amber miso butter glaze pooling beneath, scattered toasted sesame seeds, sliced green spring onions, lime wedges

Charred Sweetheart Cabbage Wedges with Miso Butter and Sesame

Side Dish
Golden-crusted kohlrabi gratin in a shallow ceramic dish on a weathered wooden table, one wedge lifted showing creamy pale layers, chives and dill scattered over

Kohlrabi Gratin with Thyme Cream and Mustard Crumbs

Side Dish
Lacinato kale leaves growing lush and tall

Lacinato kale, a swarthy, dark vegetable posing as an ornamental

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Large bollworm on a cabbage leaf with excrements

Bollworms, dreaded caterpillars defoliating vegetables

Treating diseases and pests
arugula

Arugula, easy-growing greens for mixed salads

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Perennial vegetables

Perennial vegetables: plant once, harvest for years!

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turnip

Turnip, fleshy and very tasty, especially when home-grown!

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White mustard - spice and green manure fertilizer

White mustard, both spice and green manure fertilizer

Herbs and spices
Sustainable gardening

For a sustainable garden

Special reports
Benefits of kale

Kale: what it contains, and how tradition uses it

Health
Pieris brassicae - Large white

Cabbage white butterfly, get rid of Pieris brassicae caterpillars!

Treating diseases and pests
Clump of sea kale with gravel mulch.

Sea kale, Crambe maritima – a seaside cabbage both cute and tasty

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Raised beds with companion planting

Companion planting in the vegetable patch

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Rows of lettuce and radish sowed and planted in a spring vegetables patch.

Spring sowing and planting in the vegetable patch

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Health benefits of turnip

Turnip: a sweet winter root, its vitamin C and its traditional uses

Health
Easy growing for vegetables without even treating

No-treat vegetable patch: easy peasy

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Sweet alyssum, Lobularia

Sweet alyssum, cute ground cover

Annuals and biennials
Swede, Brassica napobrassica

Swede, how to sow, grow and get large roots for winter

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Yellow flower of the ravenelle wallflower

Ravenelle wallflower, easy and flower-bearing

Perennials
Candytuft spreading ground cover, white.

Candytuft, superb ground cover

Perennials
Three greens: lettuce, mizuna cabbage and coriander

Mizuna cabbage, japanese greens

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Green manure steps to prepare

Green manure, use cover plants to fertilize the next harvest!

Treating diseases and pests
Winter vegetables

Which vegetables to grow in winter?

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Wallflower growing and care

Wallflower, it loves climbing high

Annuals and biennials
decorative Ornamental cabbage

Ornamental cabbage, beautiful in winter

Annuals and biennials
An arabis alpina shrub in full bloom covered in small white flowers.

Arabis, alpine rock-cress, like a basket of silver in spring

Perennials
Benefits of savoy cabbage

Savoy cabbage: what it contains, how to use it in the kitchen, and when to be careful

Health
Savoy cabbage

Savoy cabbage, a frizzly-headed cabbage for winter

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Spring garden tasks

Spring garden tasks for each portion of the garden

Month after month
Cauliflower

Cauliflower, everything there is to know about growing it

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Chinese cabbage harvest

Chinese cabbage, a vegetable to (re)discover

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Health benefits of cauliflower

Cauliflower: nutrients, traditional uses and how to cook it well

Health
A small pyramid of fresh brussels sprouts doused in water.

Brussels sprouts, all there is to know about growing them

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Two caterpillars on a nasturtium leaf with pellets of waste.

Caterpillars, organic treatments to control them

Treating diseases and pests
broccoli

Broccoli, all there is to know about growing broccoli

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Radish

Radish: from sowing to harvest, how to grow it

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Black radish

Black radish, the winter radish

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Radish health benefits

Red radish: how to use the root and the leaves, and who should go easy

Health
Red cabbage heads in a wicker basket with straw

Red cabbage: traditional uses, kitchen forms and cautions

Health
Cabbage

Cabbage, how to grow it and different varieties

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Health benefits of rutabaga

Rutabaga (swede): traditional uses, how to cook it, and what to watch

Health
Rutabaga

Rutabaga, all the tips on how to grow rutabaga

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