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A Complete Guide to Growing Container Eggplant & How to Fry Your Harvest: Grow It Cook It Eat It!

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Subscribe to my YouTube Channel The Rusted Garden Over 800 Garden Videos Designed to Quickly Present Information! A Complete Guide to Growing Container Eggplant & How to Fry Your Harvest:  Grow It Cook It Eat It! Eggplant is an outstanding container vegetable. It is extremely productive. I show you everything you need to do to maintain them in containers, once planted and growing.  Eggplant is the “meat” of the garden and Stacy Lyn will show you how to fry and make breaded garden fresh eggplant. A perfect golden fry that can be used with all kinds of sauces & preparations. Her cookbook, Harvest, contains this delicious recipe as well as many more! Stacy Lyn's 'Harvest' Cookbook a perfect companion for Grow It Cook It Eat It Stacy Lyn's Website Game and Garden Stacy Lyn's YT Channel Come Join Stacy and I in Grow It Cook it Eat it's FB group Please Visit The Rusted Garden Seed and Garden Shop Contact Me at therustedgarden@gmail.com Subscribe to My YouTu

How Well Do All-America Selections Winners Grow? Extremely Prolific Vegetable Plants for Your Gardens

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Subscribe to my YouTube Channel The Rusted Garden Over 800 Garden Videos Designed to Quickly Present Information! Please Support The Rusted Garden by Shopping through my Amazon Affiliate Link How Well Do All-America Selections Winners Grow?  Extremely Prolific Vegetable Plants for Your Gardens I had a great time growing All-America Selections Winners in my garden this year. I highly recommend going to their site and finding the new winners as well as some past winner from the last 85 years. Yes, they have doing this for 85 years! The 2018 AAS Winners have just been released and I will be growing some of them next year. Why not get something new and be the first in your area to grow it, show it off and of course eat it. So... are the winners truly winners? Do they just have a stamp on them or do they offer something that merits the title of a winner?  What makes a vegetable or flower an AAS Winner ? Well I have the answers for you in my garden tour video. I grow and test before I rec

Mental Health and The Vegetable Garden Part One: Positively Changing Your Structure & Routine

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Subscribe to my YouTube Channel The Rusted Garden Over 800 Garden Videos Designed to Quickly Present Information! Please Support The Rusted Garden by Shopping through my Amazon Affiliate Link Mental Health and The Vegetable Garden Part One: Positively Changing Your Structure and Routine by Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden)  I have been working in the field of mental health for nearly 30 years and have been a Clinical Mental Heath Therapist for the last 15 years. My grandfather introduced me to world of vegetable gardening when I was in elementary school. He came over one day with tomato transplants and dug a garden. He taught me how to plant and grow my own tomato plants. My memories of him, in the garden with me, continue today. What he taught me that day ignited a passion and that passion continues to influences my daily life. Mental heath is really about life quality. We perceive the world. We feel the world. We interact with the world. We are social beings that interact with fam

Grow an All America Selections Tomato & Vegetable Garden with Me: Pictures of My AAS Winners!

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Subscribe to my YouTube Channel The Rusted Garden Over 800 Garden Videos Designed to Quickly Present Information! Please Support The Rusted Garden by Shopping through my Amazon Affiliate Link Grow an All America Selections Tomato and Vegetable Garden with Me  Pictures of My AAS Winners! This year I dedicated a section of my garden for growing vegetables that were recent All-America Selections Winners. The winning vegetables have been impressive. Next year I plan to turn my community garden into an exclusive All-America Selections Winners garden. The reason I'm doing this is because AAS Winners grow extremely well and I am having fun finding new and even old vegetable varieties for my garden. All these pictures are from my 2017 garden and I took them 30 minutes ago! 'Candle Fire' Okra A 2017 AAS National Winner All-America Selections has been around for 85 years. They are a nonprofit organization that really does one thing and that is conduct yearly trials to find the