{"id":1387,"date":"2012-05-23T10:46:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T14:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2021-08-14T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T15:38:22","slug":"gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/gardening\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"

When our kids first started gardening, they wanted to grow doughnuts and bluebirds. If only we could<\/em>, I thought.<\/p>\n

Luckily there are many other possibilities for kids, parents, grandparents, teachers, and gardens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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How Carrots Won the Trojan War<\/em>\u00a0(Storey Publishing, 2011) is an award-winning science and history of garden vegetables. It\u2019s an adult book, but is packed with stories and information adaptable for a wide range of educational and just plain interesting purposes. Find out, for example, about the Burmese Cucumber King, Henry Ford\u2019s carrot obsession, and the pirate who discovered bell peppers, and discover what corn had to do with Dracula and why pumpkins sometimes explode.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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