Vegetable Farming

Seasonal switches: Poinsettias are wonderful, but so are these alternative holiday plants

Paul Bosland is a pepper plant breeder whose specialty adds zest and dazzle to the holidays. While these multicolored chilies aren’t likely to replace poinsettias as the top-selling holiday plant, they are a hot option.

‘Big B’ at lab technician’s kitchen garden

KHAMMAM: The kitchen garden of a lab assistant at Kallur has an attraction for all. A brinjal tree has grown 6.6 feet high and turned to be a continuous fruit bearer. The minimum size of brinjals from the plant is one feet....

Rising tomato prices hit buyers

— PHOTO: G. KARTHIKEYAN. COSTLY: Buyers at Ayyalur tomato wholesale market. DINDIGUL: Sharp slump in production and poor arrivals from neighbouring areas skyrocket prices of tomato in wholesale and retail markets. Prices of...

More schools cultivate learning in gardens

CHICAGO - If all goes well, the organically grown fare will end up as food for students at the Louisa May Alcott School, where a large vegetable garden just outside the cafeteria is planted, tended and harvested by students....

Organic veggies on sale today

SAN JUAN - The return of cool weather to subtropical South Texas brings with it the return of the area's only organic farmers market, said Barbara Storz, a Texas AgriLife Extension Service horticultural agent in Hidalgo...

Make It Green: In Florida, there’s plenty of help for painting your world green

Virtually everything that is happening in the “green world” crosses my path via mail or e-mail or word of mouth or Web link. This week, let’s take a look at a few items that have come to the top of the list — and where they...

New York State Payroll Tax, new york state payroll tax

New York State Payroll Tax Sources of New York State Payroll Tax resources from the Web So you're looking for New York State Payroll Tax. The Hudson River flows south through the eastern part of the state without draining Lakes...

Farm tour, tomato packer awaits ripening fruit

By JESSICA KLIPA - jklipa@bradenton.com PALMETTO — About 4.5 million boxes of tomatoes are shipped out of the West Coast Tomato packing plant every year. But Friday, when the Farm City Week tour made a stop there, visitors got...

Blame bitter zucchini on chemical imbalance

Q. I planted four zucchini plants this summer. A. Zucchini is a member of the Cucurbitacea family, along with cucumbers, pumpkins, squash, melons and gourds. All members of the family produce chemicals called cucurbitacins that...

Multicultural Community of Bugs - NewsGrabs 23 November 2008

Gut check reveals vast multicultural community of bugs in bowels A new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine reveals in greater detail than ever before the full extent of the bacterial community inhabiting the...

               

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Pepper Farming , Tomato Farming