Growing Blooms, Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit
Unlike Tubers, Greens shine above ground. The members of the Greens category of veggies include: Aster Family: lettuce and chicory Brassica Family:Â arugula, cabbage, bok choy, collards, kale, mizuna, mustard, tatsoi and watercress Amaranth Family: spinach, strawberry spinach and swiss chard Buckwheat Family: sorrel Similarities: Of course, you eat the leaf part of Greens. I usually […]
While Tubers grow underground like Roots, Tubers are high in starch. Let’s review the members by family and identify the similarities and differences. Nightshade Family: potatoes Morning Glory Family: sweet potatoes Aster Family: Jerusalem artichokes Similarities:  While the edible part of the Tubers category of veggies grows underground, tubers have flowers that grow above ground. Tubers […]
The following breaks down the Fruits category by plant family. Nightshade Family: eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, tomatillos and pineapple tomatillos Basically, I included the veggie members of the nightshade family except for potatoes. Even though I included pineapple tomatillos as a fruit, not a veggie under the Nightshade Family, I had to include them here because […]
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