Veggies

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Veggies
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Myths

• Home-grown vegetables are cheaper than in the
  grocery
• Home-grown vegetables are more nutritious
• Home-grown vegetables have less pesticides

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Why grow vegetables at home?
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Why grow vegetables at home?

• Freshness
• Texture

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Why grow vegetables at home?

• Freshness
• Texture

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Vegetable Gardens

• Raised beds
• (http//www.ext.colostate.edu/PUBS/Garden/07842.ht
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• Benefits?
• Materials?

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Intensive Gardening
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Intensive Gardening
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Most Common Vegetables

• Sweet corn
• Beans
• Peas
• Tomato
• Lettuce
• Squash
• Peppers

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Sweet corn

• Plant in blocks not single rows!

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Beans

• Pole or bush?

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Peas

• Two seasons (spring and fall)

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Tomatoes

• Staking needed!
• Avoid over-fertilization!

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Lettuce

• Two seasons (spring and fall)
• Bolting

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Squash

• Squash borer
• Powdery mildew

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Peppers

• Blossom end rot
• Bacterial rot

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