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Yippee for summer! My Arizona garden keeps me in fresh veggies all year, but summer brings a glutton of squash, cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes. I pickle peppers and cucumbers several times over the summer,make sauces and can the tomatoes as well, but I can never find enough things to do with zucchini . Sometimes I can't even give it away! My husband is not a zucchini fan at all, or any other vegetable for that matter. He often doesn't even know when I sneak in veggies under his nose. It's much like issues moms of toddlers have, except mine will go head for the drive thru if dinner bombs. He will never turn down chocolate. Which brings me back around to zucchini! I've tried countless recipes for zucchini bread some with chocolate. Most are quite good for me and the kids, but my hubby turns his nose up at the little green specks and refuses to even try it. I have come up with a great fudgy cake recipe, a mish mash of "rejects" that turns out to be moist, choc...

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Kale is the hot new super food. Not only is it super easy to grow, but it's very versatile too. Recipes are all over the web for green smoothies, salads, sautes and soups. In our house the favorite way to add some extra vitamin punch from Kale is in salads. Our favorite Kale salad has most of the ingredients growing in our back yard; kale, romaine, carrot, tomato and cabbage. A few posts back,  I talked about growing kale as an easy winter crop . Living in the desert we can grow a few things year round that others can't. By staggering plantings I can keep a fresh supply of salad greens all year. By changing up the ingredients to match what's on hand or to suit your taste, will keep the super food on your plate! Mixed Green, Blue Cheese and Bacon Chop Salad Use any combination: Kale ( find organic and Non-GMO seeds ) Romaine Nappa Cabbage Green cabbage Radicchio Red Cabbage Spinach Shredded Carrot Blue Cheese Dressing Blue Cheese crumbles Bacon, cooked a...

Photo from seedsnow.com Now is the time to start planing and planting a winter garden. Kale has become one of the super foods that everyone is interested in at the moment. Kale is a great container crop. Kale is full of antioxidants, beta carotene, vitamin K, vitamin C, lutein and  rich in calcium. SeedsNow.com  has sample packs of Blue Curled Scotch and three other varieties for only $.99 for approximately 50 seeds, larger packs for $4.99. The small packs are great for a patio garden, or a backyard garden like mine. Plant Kale in pots or in flower beds of summer's fading flowers now. Refresh beds with some fresh compost or manure, greens like this love high nitrogen! Kale is frost tolerant and most people think the frost or a snow fall improves the taste, making it sweeter. In warmer climates like mine in Arizona, plant Kale in a partly shady spot that wont get the hot afternoon sun. Shop the  entire selection of Non-GMO seeds at SeedsNow.com