Recursos Tagged: Vegetables

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  1. Melia azedarach - Bead Tree

    Edible Portion:Fruit (Poisonous), Gum, Leaves, Flowers, Vegetable A moderate sized tree. It grows 6-16 m high. It can spread 3-12 m wide. The trunk is round and the branches spread outwidely. The bark is greyish-brown. The bark has long shallow cracks along the length. The leaves are alternate....
    Vegetables Edible Flowers Edible Leaves Poisonous Fruits Bread Tree

  2. Southern Living Garden Guide: Vegetables

    01/01/1996 Offers advice for planning, planting, and caring for a vegetable garden, provides specific information for more than thirty of the most popular vegetables, and includes harvesting and storing tips.
    Vegetables Vegetables Gardening

  3. Asian Gardening 2 Table

    Asian Garden 2 Table LLC is a small “mom & pop” family business, dedicated to the purpose of purveying information, material goods and services related to the gardening, preparation, and consumption of fresh vegetable based meals. As you can see from the site, we offer tips on urban/suburban...
    Vegetables Asia

  4. Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench): An Easy-to-Grow Multipurpose Plant

    01/10/2005 Okra provides food, feed, forage, fiber, foliage, fuel and cooking oil.
    Okra Nutrition Vegetables

  5. World Vegetables: Principles, Production, and Nutritive Values

    Key Resource 31/12/1997 This wide-ranging, comprehensive treatise examines the many different aspects of vegetables from an international perspective. The diversity and depth of coverage of vegetables is largely due to the extensive background and experiences of the authors, Vincent Rubatzky and Mas Yamaguchi, as well...
    Garden Vegetables Varieties Vegetables

  6. Vegetables in the Tropics

    Key Resource 01/01/1983 The main objective of this text is to provide concise information on vegetable crops grown in tropical regions which will be of use to students, extension service staff and research workers who wish to enlarge their knowledge of the range of food crops available for growing in the tropics and the...
    Vegetables Tropical crops

  7. Specialty and Minor Crops Handbook

    Key Resource 01/02/1998 Handy for commercial producers as well as backyard gardeners, this useful guide for growers and sellers of niche market produce provides detailed information about growing specialty crops that are growing in popularity among consumers. Includes 63 crop sheets from arugula to radicchio, basil to...
    Varieties Vegetables Underutilized Crops Food Crops

  8. Are Raw Vegetables More Nutritious Than Cooked One?

    01/01/1993 “While it’s true that overcooking reduces the nutritive value of all foods and even moderate heat can destroy certain vitamins, raw food are not always more nutritious.
    Vegetables Nutritional Value

  9. ‘Caro Rich’ Tomato Seed for Increased Vitamin A

    20/07/2011 In her book, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties (reviewed in EDN 87), Carol Deppe mentions an open-pollinated, orange-fleshed tomato variety called ‘Caro Rich.’ The book states that ‘Caro Rich’ is second only to carrot as a source of beta-carotene (Vitamin A). It is an indeterminate variety, so...
    Plant Breeding Hybrid Vegetables Tomatoes

  10. Manual of Minor Vegetables

    Key Resource 01/01/1988 Vegetables included here are not only those adapted to and grown in Florida, but also many that are not well-adapted. The potential for production of a particular vegetable is discussed briefly in many instances, particularly in reference to home use. In fact, the information is more relevant to...
    Vegetable gardening Vegetables