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In addition to this vegetable's value in immune system health, a compound found in broccoli protects against blood vessel damage that hyperglycemic episodes can cause.

There's a broccoli sale in the supermarket. Should you stock up and eat it everyday? Food chemists say: "Not so fast. Watch out for goitrogens!"

Many vegetables are attractive as well as nutritious. When used imaginatively it is easy to create stunning edible landscapes which are a pleasure to see and eat.

Harvest a bevy of brassica greens from the southern kitchen garden for a healthy diet in the new year.

Stocks, a hardy annual, pay big dividends in fragrance, flowers, foliage, and fortitude in the cool-season fall garden. In a bare garden go bullish with stocks!

When you plant tomatoes with asparagus, they complement each other and help each other thrive. That is what companion planting is all about.

The Cabbage White butterfly, the bane of vegetable gardeners, is actually two different species; the Large White (Pieris brassicae) and the Small White (Pieris rapae).

Organic gardeners can grow cover crops to enrich the soil.

Eating broccoli carries with it some pretty remarkable health benefits. Discover how this common green vegetable can protect against so many diseases.

Growing Brussels sprouts from seed or from transplants can yield a tasty crop of cabbage-like vegetables in the spring or fall.

Broccoli rabe is becoming ever more trendy because of its nutritional benefits and savory qualities, but its pungent taste is not for everyone. Blanching it is a must.

Is it a cauliflower? Is it a broccoli? It's Romanesco, a vegetable that has astonished both gardeners and gastronomists for centuries. Whatever it is, it's delicious.