Dear Garden Grower,
Eat your greens. You’ve heard it since you were a kid, no doubt. Maybe you’ve said it to your kids. But now when you sit down at the dinner table, you may soon be telling the kids to eat their purples. Purple and purple-splashed vegetables are showing up more and more in supermarkets, farmers’ markets, salad bars, and maybe even your garden.
Purple potatoes, kale, lettuce, Asian greens, and asparagus are appearing alongside the familiar purple plums, grapes, and blueberries. Seed catalogs offer dozens of purple vegetables. And they do, admittedly, bring some visual bling to the garden. While they may expand the color palette on your dinner table, do they offer any nutritional value?
“Hundreds of studies over the past 30 years or more have shown that anthocyanin-rich [purple-pigmented] foods reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke, metabolic diseases, and other chronic diseases,” according to Dr. Colin Kay, a nutritional biologist.
Plants produce anthocyanins to attract pollinators and seed dispersers, repel predators, resist pathogens, heal wounds, and reduce stress from environmental factors such as excess radiation or cold temperatures. So, how much purple food do we need to eat to repel predators and lower our heating bill? It’s hard to say. What we do know is that the benefits increase as you eat more.
This doesn’t mean that you have to consume megadoses of blueberries or red cabbage. “Some studies [have found] that small amounts are used very efficiently where the body needs them,” says Dr. Monica Giusti, a professor at Ohio State.
Sure, they’re good for you, but let’s answer the real question, shall we? Will they work in the garden? How do they taste? To find out the answers to these questions and learn more about the history of purple vegetables, check out The Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Guide Online Library, which comes with your membership in The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club. This is the same almanac that farmers, gardeners, homesteaders, and other smart people have relied upon for over two centuries. |
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| Strawberry Fields (and Recipes) Forever | Purple vegetables can taste mighty good, but the sweet taste of those first strawberries of the season is absolutely heaven on Earth. There’s nothing like the joy of picking and eating a fresh strawberry. Try as we might, though, we can’t eat them all in one sitting. That’s why we are thrilled to have three prizewinning strawberry recipes in The Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Guide Online Library.
Let’s be honest here. Doesn’t a Strawberry Honey Basil Bite sound divine right about now? You simply can’t go wrong. And when you add in the goat cheese and serve it on a puff pastry? Wow!
Although, to be fair, the Strawberry Mango Salsa and the Roasted Strawberry Basil Balsamic Salad make our mouths water, too. Seriously. You’re making a balsamic vinaigrette with roasted strawberries. That’s going to be good on almost anything.
If you need us, we’ll be out picking strawberries! | | | | Perfect Peppers | Know what else works well in salads, sauces, and main dishes? Peppers. They aren’t hard to grow, either. Peppers need about 8 hours of direct sunlight and well-draining, phosphorus-rich soil that’s high in organic matter.
Try snack-size red, orange, and yellow mini bell peppers, the mild ‘Takara’ hybrid, or the heirloom ‘California Wonder’, or go (cautiously) all out with the very hot ‘Ghost Pepper’.
Whether it’s peppers or purples, if gardens are your thing, you can get a full harvest of tips, ideas, news, and inspiration in The Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Guide Online Library. Those strawberry recipes alone are enough to make for the best reading this side of Henry David Thoreau.
Access to The Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden Guide Online Library is yours, along with much more useful information, wit, and wisdom, with an Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership! |
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With an Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership, you’ll get the hangable softcover 2021 edition of the Almanac, monthly updates by email, plus a bundle of FREE bonuses where you’ll learn more about what it takes to grow a bountiful, beautiful garden. With an Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership, you’ll learn more about:
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You’ll also get updates to our weather predictions in our monthly digital magazine, EXTRA!, sent to you each month to keep you current on changing weather and conditions. |
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Since 1792, The Old Farmer’s Almanac has been a traditional resource for dedicated farmers, avid and casual gardeners, folks who like to get a long view on upcoming weather trends, and people who love to collect little snippets of country wit and wisdom that they can share with family and friends.
We’re not just the oldest published almanac, but the oldest continuously published periodical in North America— and we’ve been around longer than any newspaper or magazine, too. |
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Here are just a few of the types of tips you can find in our 2021 Gardening Calendar: Reinvigorate your houseplants by removing the top 1/4 inch of soil and top-dressing with fresh potting soil. Use an old salt shaker for sowing tiny seeds. Mix the seeds with sand for better spreading. Plants with a strong citrus fragrance will help to keep pesky bugs at bay. Try planting lemon-scented geraniums, lemon thyme, or lemon balm. Lettuce shaded naturally or by shade cloth will encourage the growth of a tender, sweet crop all summer. To attract dragonflies, create a water feature. Choose a spot in partial to full sun and plant a few native plants along the edges for wind protection. Remove the lower leaves of brussels sprouts to expose the buds along the stem. Harvest from the bottom up. Fill bird feeders to attract chickadees, nuthatches, and juncos—they will not only brighten the landscape but also clean up insect larvae and eggs on trees and shrubs.
You’ll love the advice, folklore, and gardening secrets in our 2021 Gardening Wall Calendar!
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From the practical to the ornamental, plan your prolific garden and learn how to:
Plant edibles indoors and out, no matter how small your space is. Create a serene and leafy oasis—and why you should. Make a living herb wreath—a kitchen garden in the round. Grow blooms that beautify your surroundings and make breathtaking bouquets. Serve up your harvest in style with recipes that will let you savor the flavor of homegrown food.
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When we first created the Gardening Club, we wanted to make it easy to use, easy to order, and packed with valuable gardening content that you could put to use right away. Be the best gardener you can be with yourOld Farmer’s Almanac Gardening Club Charter Membership.
Sincerely,
Janice Stillman
Editor
The Old Farmer’s Almanac
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