• Herbs

  January 1, 1970

  there is a strict difference between herbs and spices. Herbs are the leafy green or flowering parts of a plant, which can be used fresh or dried. Spices [...] ingredient, natural medicine or fragrances. They often have savory or aromatic characteristics and are used for flavouring dishes or food products. In the culinary [...] Spices derive from other parts of herbal plants and are often dried seeds, berries, roots, bark and fruits. Botanically speaking, ‘herb’ is synonymously to

• Pea

  January 1, 1970

  vegetable is a bright green colour, sometimes yellow or purple and widely grown as a cool season vegetable crop. Immature peas are consumed as a vegetable [...] popular vegetable is a round seed in the seed pod of the fruit, Pisum sativum . Pods of this plant develop from the ovary of a pea flower and carry numerous [...] vegetable and often canned or frozen. Dry peas are shelled from matured pods.

• Raspberry

  January 1, 1970

  tart-flavoured. Raspberries are a seasonal fruit and produced in summer or early autumn. Botanically speaking, the raspberry is not a berry, but an aggregate fruit [...] from Rubus idaeus or horticultural derivatives of hybrids of R. idaeus and R. strigosus. The fruit of the raspberry plant is red, tasty and sweet but tart [...] also referred to as red raspberry or occasionally as European raspberry to distinguish it from other raspberries, is a red-fruited species of Rubus. This

• Apple

  January 1, 1970

  apples usually have a red, yellow, green, pink, or russetted coloured skin. Additionally there exists also a wide range of bi- or tri-colored cultivars [...] known for the apple, the tree’s usually sweet and pomaceous fruit. Apples originate from Asia and Europe and were grown there for thousands of years, before [...] is protected by a layer of epicuticular wax. Apples usually have a yellowish-white coloured exocarp. Sometimes their flesh is also pink or yellow.

• Chrysanthemum

  January 1, 1970

  mum or chrysanth, is a flowering plant that belongs to the genus Chrysanthemum of the family of Asteraceae. The plant is originally from Asia and northeastern [...] northeastern Europe and the majority of the different species derive from East Asia. Especially in China a wide range of varieties and cultivars has been developed [...] The flower heads can look like daisies or pompoms or buttons. This particular genus consists of many hybrids and an extensive range of cultivars that are

• Cranberry

  January 1, 1970

  shrub and usually grows on the ground surface first and then ascends. The plant produces white or pink flowers and afterwards sour-tasting red or pink berries [...] specific parts of North America, namely the central and eastern part of Canada and the northeastern and north-central areas of the United States. This cranberry [...] America and parts of Europe. This species of cranberry belongs to the subgenus Oxycoccus and genus Vaccinium . This species of cranberry qualifies as a shrub

• Mushroom

  January 1, 1970

  Mushroom A mushroom, or toadstool, is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source [...] by criteria that include absence of poisonous effects on humans and desirable taste and aroma. Most mushrooms sold in supermarkets have been commercially [...] sterilized environments. Several varieties of A. bisporus are grown commercially, including whites, crimini, and portobello. Many other mushroom varieties

• Bedding plants

  January 1, 1970

  Bedding plants are usually annual, biennial or tender perennial plants used in gardens and parks. There is a wide range of plants especially produced to [...] rhizomes, bulbs and tubers . These are planted every year and removed after the plant has died down. During winter they are either stocked away or disposed of: [...] clarkia, dianthus, nigella, godetia, eschscholzia Tender annual or perennial plants are planted in a protected environment in late winter: begonia, chrysanthemum

• Kiwi

  January 1, 1970

  so-called golden kiwifruit or Actinidia chinensis has a soft and bronze colored skin. The color of its flesh varies from a bright green to an intense yellow [...] yellow color. This particular kind tastes sweeter and has a more aromatic flavor, reminiscent of subtropical fruit varieties. [...] About Kiwifruit, kiwi or Chinese gooseberry are all names that refer to the edible berries of various species of woody vines that belong to the genus Actinidia

• Aphids—Go Time Appears in GrowerTalks Magazine

  March 1, 2025

  encounter this spring, including the melon or cotton aphid , green peach or tobacco aphid , and the potato aphid , and how to identify them. This information [...] facilities, and was Director of Operations for a large perennial wholesale nursery. He’s shipped a wide range of perennials, shrubs, annuals, and edibles, [...] 1937. Growers and propagators turn to it to learn about the newest standards and practices, including those for biological programs and integrated pest