Tomato harvesting is upon us, and home vegetable gardeners (new and seasoned) are being inundated with their bounty! If you haven’t planned ahead with ready-to-go tomato recipes (and you’ve shared all you can with family and friends), check out this recent post from garden writer Jan Uebelherr of the Journal Sentinel in Milwaukee. From panzanella....

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According to the National Gardening Association, the No.1 vegetable grown by home gardeners in America is the familiar tomato. It’s the fruit for which Burpee is the most famous, and it’s the most popular fruit not just in America but in the world, with 60 million tons produced every year. That’s a lot of tomatoes.

So there are tons of tomatoes, and you know what else? There are tons of varieties, too. Thousands,....

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The first rule of veggie gardening is to plant things you and your family enjoy eating. (It sounds simple, but a lot of people really do get hung up on what on earth they should plant.) One way to approach choosing your plants is to think about how you want to prepare them…
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