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We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. And while it isn’t as trendy as kale or cauliflower, it is surprisingly nutritious. Nutritional Composition As with many other cruciferous vegetables, this one is low in calories, yet high in many important vitamins and minerals. For example, 1 cup of raw cabbage provides approximately: 22 calories 2 grams of fiber 85% of the recommended daily value (DV) for vitamin K 54% of the DV for vitamin C...

Despite often being grouped in with and compared to spinach, it is actually part of the cabbage family. It’s also considered a Brassica or cruciferous vegetable, along with broccoli, cauliflower, and brussels sprouts. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Here’s what’s to come: Let’s dig in! Nutritional Composition Kale is considered a nutrient-dense food as it’s low in calories, yet high in some essential nutrients....

Watering seems pretty straightforward to me. You fill a jug or can, bring it over to your plant, and dump the liquid in, right? Not much room to run into trouble. But despite that, I’ve managed to find trouble so many times, and I can pretty much guarantee that you have as well. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....

I know I do. And if you’ve ever wondered if you could grow this festive shrub at home, I’m here to tell you that you absolutely can. American holly, or Ilex opaca, adds a bright pop of color to your yard or garden in the wintertime – and you can take clippings from it to decorate your home for the holidays. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....

All it takes really is learning what this tropical species needs so you can successfully meet its requirements. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Here’s what I’ll cover: Cultivation and History Zebra calathea is a type of prayer plant, an evergreen herbaceous perennial grown for its striking, stripey green foliage. This tropical species has large elliptical leaves which grow to be 18 inches long or more....

With practically no pest or disease issues, you won’t have to dote on or fret about it like you would other, wimpier plantings. Plus, you have the option to propagate spores, which is an enlightening experience for any gardener who hasn’t done so before. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Hopefully your desire for a cinnamon fern rivals my jonesing for a cinnamon-dusted sugar cookie by the time you reach the end of this guide....

We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. However, the similarity stops there because beneath the cuddly cuteness of old man cactus lie sharp spines, the modified leaves of desert cacti. I caution you at the outset to handle this prickly plant with care! C. senilis is suited to outdoor cultivation in USDA Hardiness Zones 9 and 10....

A sense of being overwhelmed. There seems to be so much involved, right? It’s true, there are a ton of different varieties and cultivars, from wild to floribunda to tea roses. It’s also true that growing them can sometimes be challenging. But it doesn’t have to be complicated or stressful. Start small with one plant, and see how you feel about living with these garden glories. If you’re anything like me, you’ll end up falling in love....

I’d forgive you for blithely walking past a patch of chicory growing on the side of the road. Ungainly until its brilliant daisy-like, sky blue blossoms emerge, it rarely garners a second look. Once the blooms come out, it’s a different story. It’s as if the pale violet blue of the sky just before sunrise has been captured and preserved in the flowers of this humble herb as they start to open....

My fiance loves colorful flowers. The brighter the better, she’d tell you. I’ve always tried to work with a specific palette of color to ensure a nice cohesion to landscape design. She, on the hand, wants pinks here and bright oranges in the corner, and don’t forget yellow and red in the middle. When we bought pansies for the front garden, the first garden we planted together, we had a difficult time finding enough identical colors in the quantities we needed....

However, there are steps you can take to keep your beauteous shrubs from falling victim to one of these diseases. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Fungal Diseases Botrytis Blight (Botrytis cinerea) This fungus can severely affect the flower buds and even kill them before they open. In addition, infected flower parts can fall on the leaves and infect them....

I’m sure you already know this, but you don’t want powdery mildew on your roses. It’s bad news. Beyond the potential to make your plant look kinda ugly, the pathogens that cause this disease can make your shrub fail to bloom and in the case of a bad infection, totally defoliate the whole thing. Plus, I can’t help but whine, it’s so freakin’ common! We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....

These classic spring bloomers are suitable for cultivation in USDA Hardiness Zones 5 to 8, and will transform any shady garden into a sea of sky-rivalling color. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. In this guide, we’ll talk about everything you need to successfully grow this beautiful, quaint plant in your garden. Here’s what I’ll cover: In some places the botanical name is still listed as Scilla campanulata, S....

Highly ornamental vines and shrubs, they feature dainty flower clusters in shades of white, pink, and yellow, with the popular, summer-flowering poet’s jasmine being a familiar climber in many gardens. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. There are also hardier, winter-flowering species as well. And even if you don’t have the right climate for these tender vines outdoors, you can enjoy their fragrant blooms indoors because they make superb houseplants as well!...

We’re going to talk about how you can take that one parent plant you bought at the nursery and transform it into as many baby plants as your heart desires. Astilbe plants vary in size and color. There are some plants that will not top six inches while others may finish their season at a whopping four feet tall – buyer beware! We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....

My mom taught me to spray my zucchini with a water and milk mixture to prevent powdery mildew, and I have always done it without questioning whether it’s based on good science or not. Turns out it is, but it could just as easily have been a gardening myth. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....

On the one hand, I understand the indiscriminate hunger of deer and the damage they can do to a landscape, or your carefully tended garden. In a single night, they can ravage months of work in the vegetable beds. Other times, they can do so much cosmetic damage to a landscape that repairing it is a costly and frustrating experience, if repair is even possible. But, on the other hand, I really like deer....

And while many have a bushy growth habit, only one species, Symphyotrichum dumosum, formerly Aster dumosus, is commonly called the bushy aster. You may also know it by the names button, cushion, or long-stalked aster. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. They are easy to spot in the late summer to early fall in forest clearings and along roads and streams, usually covered in native bees, beneficial insects, and butterflies....

But when, exactly, do you have to plant crocus bulbs, technically called corms, in order to see a bounty of flowers? Of the three most popular varieties – snow (Crocus chrysanthus), Dutch (C. vernus), and saffron (C. sativus) – two are vernal and one is autumnal, so planting times differ, and vary according to your USDA Hardiness Zone. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....

Certain cultivars of Epipremnum aureum, also known as devil’s ivy, have yellow splashes on the variegated leaves, for example. And ‘Neon’ is a light lemon-lime color all over. But when healthy leaves on your houseplant or the cuttings you’re trying to root start turning yellow, you’ve got a problem. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....