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What are the best vegetables to grow in a partial shaded area?

I am gardening in the south east.

As long as your garden gets at least 3-6 hours of sun a day, you will be able to grow some good vegetables. It’s a misconception among a lot of people that gardens need full sun.

Your best bet is to grow leafy vegetables if you have only partial sun/shaded areas. Consider planting
Swiss Chard, Leafy Greens such as collards, mustard greens, spinach, and kale.
You could also plant beans, beets and radishes.

What are some of the best vegetables and fruits to juice???Just bought a high quality juicer…Thanks?

Why are these certain fruits and veggies the best???…Thanks for the details…Thomas

I like a mixture of tomato, carrot, beet and celery. Add a bit of crushed garlic, pepper and a pinch of salt.

I boil the vegetable pulp that the juicer sperates and make it into a sort of a (somewhat clear) soup.

best vegetables for a beginner to plant?

i aint never planted anything before but i would like to set up a little garden for me and my daughter. what are the things that i need (soil or tools?), and what are good veggies or herbs that are good to plant on semi shady land? and when should i plant them?

Cool Weather: Lettuce, radishes, broccoli, snow peas, onion seeds, bulbs, and/or plants. I’ve already put in my snow peas and they will come up when they are ready to. The semi-shady land *might* allow you to grow those I mentioned during the summer heat as well if they are protected enough…it depends on where you live. You can stagger the plantings on those I’ve mentioned as well so they keep coming…about two weeks apart. The onions, however, should be planted all at the same time. If you plant some bulbs, seeds, and plants you should be able to harvest green onions for salads, cooking, and veggie trays.

Herbs can be grown inside and out. Sprouts can be grown all year long indoors.

Tomatoes can be started in the house asap on top of the a slightly warm appliance such as a freezer, moved to a sunny window after they pop up, and slowly starting with shade, moved out to the garden. Tomatoes prefer full sun but will grow in semi-shady. Just be sure to give them something natural for a boost. I feed my tomato plants dried banana peels and get too many tomatoes ; )

As for the rest, they are easy to grow when it warms up..find out the planting date for your zone: Beans are very easy. Pole beans can be trained on a tee-pee made of sticks, poles, or bamboo, and tied with jute both on the top and around the bottom of the tee-pee - look for an example on the net. Lettuce can be planted inside the tee-pee when you plant the pole beans.

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/newgard/

Explore this site and you can also ask questions as well : )

I don’t know how old your daughter is but if she’s at least a toddler get her involved with a little tool set/hat/watering can of her own.

http://www.kidsgardening.com/primer/primer1049.asp

What are the best vegetables to dry?

I’ve always been into gardening, but have jsut recently gotten a food dehydrator, so I was looking for a few good crops to try. Please be specific on types. For example, instead of saying ‘tomato’ say ‘Roma’ or ‘Brandywine’ tomato. But more than just tomatoes please.

I’ve dried a lot of veggies (for cooking while hiking). The tomatoes and peppers always seem to develop a flavor I don’t like - they work ok, just don’t like ‘em as much as fresh. Sorry, I can’t give you specific varieties of any particular veggie - mostly I don’t think it matters much, except that, for example, a Roma would dry faster than Beefsteak.

Things that have worked best for me are onions, celery, chives/green onions, carrots, peas, cabbage, mushrooms, and corn. I think the carrots work better if they’re parboiled first to soften them up a bit, but you can get by without it. Potatoes work, but dehydrated potato flakes are so cheap it’s really not worth doing for me. For that matter, you can find dehydrated veggies pretty cheap, so it’s more for personal enjoyment to dry your own, or making up your own mixes/creations is fun (e.g. - dried corn, with or without spicy or sweet seasonings make a nice crunchy snack).

I think the biggest bang for the buck is dried herbs - you can grow them cheap but they often cost an awful lot in the stores.

I’ve bought several diff types of dried veggies from Harmony House, with good results. Prices are fair, quality is good: http://www.harmonyhousefoods.com/ - just in case you want to sample what can be done and have something to compare yours to.

How to Pick Fresh Fruits and Vegetables at a Store

What are the best fruits and vegetables for guinea pigs?

What are the best fruits and vegetables for guinea pigs? I want some vegetables that I can give my guinea pigs on a daily basis and some fruits and vegetables I can give them as a treat. If you have guinea pigs what are their favorites?
Me Mysel- Guinea Pig, not hamster.

My guinea pigs favourite vegetable is cos lettuce/romaine lettuce, and his favourite fruit is watermelon.

Daily vegetables:
> Cos lettuce/romaine lettuce
> Carrot
> Carrot greens
> Cucumber
> Celery
> Celery greens

Daily fruits:
> Apple
> Grapes
> Watermelon

Vegetable treats:
> Parsley
> Spinach
> Capsicum

Fruit treats:
>Strawberries
> Cherries

Best of luck

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http://guineapighut.webs.com/

What are the best vegetables to eat for losing weight?

I know veggies like peas, corn and potatos have a lot of starch but which can I eat as much as I want?

If you are eating fresh fruits and vegetables, you can feel pretty good about them. They have complete vitamins and minerals within them that are made for the digestion and usability of each. Apples are considered a very good food for health, and diet, too. Corn and potatoes are considered pretty starchy, and starch is converted into "fat" in the body. Potaotes in moderation are considered good for you, but better if you eat them boiled or baked, and also eat the skins. That is where the nutrients of a potato are mainly stored. French fries are really not potatoes, anymore, but a prepared food that contains tons of hydrogenated oils, highly heated, and that is very detrimental to the health. If you go for the brightly colored fruits and vegetables like green, orange, red, or dark colored ones, they have lots of nutrients in them. Iceburg lettuce is considered lacking in nutrition, as can be seen by the rather "anemic" appearance of the leaves. Since chlorophyll is important in nutrition, the greener veges will give you more benefits. Try to look at it like this: fresh is the very best (as in not cooked or heated), then frozen is next best, and last would be canned or packaged prepared items of any kind. Canning involves heating and other chemical processes that destroy many valuable nutrients. Once this has happened, you are really not benefiting as you might be leading yourself to believe. Put a bowl of fresh fruits on your table for easy access. Then, try cutting up some of your favorite raw vegables and place on a covered tray in your refridgerator. If you need dip to choke them down, that would certainly be preferable to not eating them, or finding a less nutritous option. If you have these things handy, and more of them around than the packaged things, chances are you might eat them more. But . . . don’t just rely on fruits and vegetables. You need to provide yourself with lots of high quality protein for the health of your body. Chicken, beef, pork, and fish are very important for health and even skin, beauty. Not fried. Baked, broiled, etc. is the very best. Now, you are probably going to say, "I asked about dieting, not healthy eating," but the two go hand-in-hand. If you eat non-nutritious foods, you will have a tendancy to gain weight, and also to be less healthy. Try to eat for health, and that may be easier than to always be thinking of how to loose the weight. To learn more, go to your local health food store and ask for a book or two about healthy eating. You will learn tons.

The Health Benefits of Fruits and Vegetables

What are the best vegetables to plant in your garden in michigan?

I am just wondering which veggies give you the biggest bang for your buck and time. Also, what tend to grown the best in Michigan. I only have a small garden, about 5 feet by 20 feet.

Green beans are the simplest to grow. The seeds are cheap and the plants will grow in almost every location. Tomatoes are also a good option. Peppers, peas, zucchini, acorn and butternut squash, cucumbers would also work well. Just look for bush varieties or space-saver varieties to maximize your garden space.

The following link has lots of good info about garden planning and soil prep. They also have tons of good tips and advice for planting, watering, fertilizing, harvesting and storing a wide variety of different vegetables. There’s even stuff about diagnosing and curing common pest and disease problems, along with recipes, etc… Good luck!

http://www.backyard-vegetable-gardening.com/index.html

What are the best vegetables to juice?

Have just bought a juicer because I dont eat veg apart from carrots and wondered what tasted good juiced. Have seen recipes but would like some personal recommendations.

I love carrot with an apple. 3 carrots and 1 apple Mmmm…
Be careful with beet juice though. When it says cleanser. They aren’t joking. Broccolli is good. Pineapple and strawberry, yummy. Or celery with tomato. You can’t juice bannanas