Growing Blooms, Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit
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 […]
Just like Bulbs, the Pods vegetable category consists of one plant family: Legume Family: beans (snap, shell and dried), chickpeas, soybeans, fava beans, peas, snow peas, sugar snaps Similarities: When you sow the seeds for Pod veggies outdoors, you have to protect these seeds from the birds because they love them too! Don’t forget that […]
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