SuperFoods

Are you eating your veggies?

There is nothing better than homegrown cabbage, broccoli, swiss chard(above) and spinach. They taste better when you grow them! The October issue of Oxygen magazine highlights 12 (one for each month) SuperFoods. Some of these veggies have cancer fighting properties and all are packed with healthy vitamins.

According to the CDC, based on my age, physical activity and sex(female!), I should consume about 2.5 cups of fruit and 2 cups of veggies every day...Working
on getting close to that target.

I was just at Big Lots and Fred's last week and noticed an abundance of seed packets- many of the SuperFoods we can plant right now in zone 7/8. If you have children, it's a great teaching experience- so much fun to watch seeds pop out of the ground within days of planting.

It's time for planting the following:

• carrots
• lettuce
  
• beets
• spinach, collards
  
• cabbage- transplants at home garden stores
  
• broccoli- lots of transplants at home garden stores
• turnips
• swiss chard
• garlic
• blueberries/strawberries (transplants for spring/summer fruit)
  

Get your SuperFood in the ground now!

Blessings from the Garden.
ML

ps. you should subscribe to "clean eating" by oxygen

Crowned Queen "B"...

I found myself wandering around the garden

this evening in my pj's & slippies taking photos of...

broccoli!

Please excuse the weeds underneath...all thanks

to organic poop(chicken) fertilizer...

Broccoli is one of the things everyone in my family will

consume, and fortunately, a very

nutritious veggie we can grow

in our backyards. Broccoli belongs to the cabbage family

and has many healthful properties including anti-cancer,

vitamins A, B, C and K in addition to several minerals.

This is the beginning of the crop.

I cut the middle"crown" and have smaller crowns which

I left to grow. Had enough tonite to steam for the family!

Blessings from Queen B.

ML