Grow a garden of good health: add these nutrient-packed vegetables to your diet, and reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses
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Vegetables have plant-based compounds called phytonutrients that act as antioxidants. These attack free radicals that are molecules which damage DNA and can clog arteries. Purple dragon carrots can work against certain cancers and impuls lettuce fights heart disease. Other vegetables are analyzed.
Publication Name: Organic Gardening
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 0897-3792
Year: 1998
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Grow your sweetest carrots ever! Satisfy your carrot tooth with these easy to grow varieties
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Nantes and other smaller or oddly shaped carrot varieties are sweeter tasting than more commercial varieties. The best varieties of Nantes carrots are sucram, touchon, and sweetness. Other recommended carrot varieties are bolero, kinko and orange rocket. Growing tips are also included.
Publication Name: Organic Gardening
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 0897-3792
Year: 1995
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Cultivate colorful corns: grow a rainbow of Native American eating with these honored heirlooms
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Growing corn can be done in rows, hills or soil clumps. Once the seeds have developed, the corn leaves have to be thinned, leaving only the healthiest stalks. Once the corn is over 2 feet tall, their soil needs to be covered with compost or rotted manure.
Publication Name: Organic Gardening
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 0897-3792
Year: 1993
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