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Cucumbers
With
cucumbers, plant breeders have now solved three problems. Cucumbers bear male and female flowers separately, and it has always been necessary, when growing the traditional long, smooth, greenhouse or frame cucumbers, to remove all the male flowers. Otherwise they were pollinated, resulting in bitter misshapen fruits.
The plant breeders,
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19. May 2013 by admin
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Cucumbers are not the easiest of vegetables to grow, but if you choose the right varieties to start with and give them the regular care they need, you can produce a successful crop at your first attempt.
As well as the usual salad uses, there are various recipes in which
cucumbers can be included; they can even be stuffed and cooked. They are a more
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19. May 2013 by admin
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How to Grow Cucumbers
Cucumber - Cucumis sativa
A member of the Gourd family, this subject has a long history of culture, being mentioned in the Old Testament as one of the fruits the Israelites longed for while in captivity.
There are records showing that the Romans went to a lot of trouble to cultivate
cucumbers, which apparently were regularly
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04. December 2010 by admin
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Guide to Growing Brussels Sprouts
Brussels Sprouts - Brassica oleracea var. gemmifera
The Brussels sprout vegetable was known and cultivated in Belgium, particularly in areas around Brussels nearly 800 years ago.
For best results provide an open, airy situation, with wide spacing, to ensure good sprout development. A long season of growth is required.
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03. December 2010 by admin
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Guide to Growing Lettuces
There are two main types of
lettuce, the
cabbage and the cos, and a great many varieties of each differing in colour, crispness, size and season.
Lettuces like a well-dug, rather rich, well-manured
soil. They are frequently treated purely as a catch-crop, and good yields can be obtained from sowings made on the ridges of
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01. December 2010 by admin
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Growing Bonsai from Seed
There is no such thing as bonsai seed. The seeds used for bonsai are ordinary tree and shrub seeds. If you wanted to try bonsai Chinese quince fruit (
Chaenomeles lagenaria), then you should be aware that the plants germinate very readily from seed. The ripe fruit can be collected in autumn and the seeds taken from inside and
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17. May 2013 by admin
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Lactuca sativa
Although the exact origins of the
lettuce are unknown it was certainly known to the Greeks and Romans, and has been grown in Britain since at least the middle of the sixteenth century. It is now the most important leafy salad vegetable. Lettuces are made up of over 95 per cent water, but contribute other essential components of our diet
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15. May 2013 by admin
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Nearly all the leafy salad vegetables which we grow are members of the Daisy family or Compositae. Their
cabbage-like appearance is misleading and the true identity is only confirmed when they run up to flower. Lettuce,
endive and
chicory are the best known, and most used, salading plants but corn salad—or lamb’s
lettuce—is also well-worth growing.
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13. May 2013 by admin
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Brassica rapa
This biennial ‘root’ vegetable — it is mainly swollen hypocotyl (the zone between the true root and the seed leaves or cotyledons) — has been known since prehistoric times. It is grown primarily for the faintly
mustard-flavoured ‘root’ which normally has white flesh.
The usual time of use is in the winter but cultivars are
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09. May 2013 by admin
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Scorzonera hispanica—Black salsify
Like salsify, this vegetable is rarely grown in Britain. It is a hardy perennial, treated as an annual for the black-skinned, white-fleshed edible roots. It has the same culinary-uses as salsify, but was formerly grown also for medicinal purposes. The flesh contains inulin which may contribute towards its delicate
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07. May 2013 by admin
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Tragopogon porrifolius - Vegetable Oyster
A hardy biennial which is grown as an annual for the fleshy white roots which are ready from October onwards. It is not much grown in Britain but it can be a useful winter vegetable with roots which are said to taste like oysters. If roots are left in the ground until the spring they will send up new shoots
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06. May 2013 by admin
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Brassica napus
Swedes are
biennials grown as
annuals for their swollen ‘roots’ which are used as winter vegetables either boiled and mashed or in stews. The swollen part is, in botanical terms, slightly different from the turnip, being made up of the hypocotyl and the base of the stem (hence the swollen neck with leaf scars). The ‘roots’ may
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04. May 2013 by admin
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Apium graveolens var. rapaceum—Turnip rooted celery
This close relative of celery (Apium graveolens var. dulce) is grown for the swollen base of the stem only while the leafstalks are not important. Thus, contrary to the popular name,
celeriac is not a true root crop. It has a similar flavour to celery and deserves to be more widely grown since the
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03. May 2013 by admin
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