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Kale adds color to a fall/winter garden and vitamins to your diet.
By MAUREEN GILMER
Scripps Howard News Service
In states with mild climates, a garden doesn’t go to bed for the winter, it simply changes character. By Thanksgiving, the beds and borders are filled with plants that crave cooler temperatures. Try to grow these same plants in summer and they’ll promptly wilt or become infested with wooly aphids. In the fall, low light and moderate temperatures create the perfect environment for what are loosely called cool-season annuals.
The key players in the off-season flower garden are violas, pansies, primroses and calendulas. Two of these offer a second value of having edible blooms. Calendulas are pot marigolds from Europe with delightful yellow and orange daisies and edible petals. They brighten sal ...
By MAUREEN GILMER
Scripps Howard News Service
In states with mild climates, a garden doesn’t go to bed for the winter, it simply changes character. By Thanksgiving, the beds and borders are filled with plants that crave cooler temperatures. Try to grow these same plants in summer and they’ll promptly wilt or become infested with wooly aphids. In the fall, low light and moderate temperatures create the perfect environment for what are loosely called cool-season annuals.
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