Professional Horticulture – Boss Coirs

Soft Fruits

admin — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:04:46 +0000

Soft Fruit is a general category of fruit, that mostly describes how it needs to be handled. The category includes many berries such as blackberries, black currants, blueberries, gooseberries, grapes, loganberries, raspberries, strawberries, etc. When sold fresh, Soft Fruit is usually sold in punnets (except for grapes) to both protect the fruit, and keep it together in the quantities being offered. Soft Fruit has a short storage and shelf life after picking, so it is often sold frozen for cooking with.

As many of the fruits called Soft Fruit grow on bushes, growing Soft Fruit at home can allow fruit in a small garden that doesn’t have the room for fruit trees. Most Soft Fruit brushes need pruning once a year to get rid of old growth that might not bear fruit any longer.

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Vegetables

admin — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 01:53:08 +0000

Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. The original meaning is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including the flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, roots, and seeds. An alternative definition of the term is applied somewhat arbitrarily, often by culinary and cultural tradition. It may exclude foods derived from some plants that are fruits, flowers, nuts, and cereal grains, but include savoury fruits such as tomatoes and courgettes, flowers such as broccoli, and seeds such as pulses.

The most vegetables are grown all over the world as climate permits, and crops may be cultivated in protected environments in less suitable locations. China is the largest producer of vegetables, and global trade in agricultural products allows consumers to purchase vegetables grown in faraway countries.

The scale of production varies from subsistence farmers supplying the needs of their family for food, to agribusinesses with vast acreages of single-product crops. Depending on the type of vegetable concerned, harvesting the crop is followed by grading, storing, processing, and marketing.

Fruit Trees

admin — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 01:47:39 +0000

which bears fruit that is consumed or used by animals and humans — all trees that are flowering plants produce fruit, which are the ripened ovaries of flowers containing one or more seeds. In horticultural usage, the term “fruit tree” is limited to those that provide fruit for human food.

Types of fruits are described and defined elsewhere (see Fruit), but would include “fruit” in a culinary sense, as well as some nut-bearing trees.

The scientific study and the cultivation of fruits is called pomology, which divides fruits into groups based on plant morphology and anatomy. Some of those groups are pome fruits, which include apples and pears, and stone fruits, which include peaches/nectarines, almonds, apricots, plums and cherries.

Leafy Plants

admin — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 00:45:56 +0000

Nearly one thousand species of plants with edible leaves are known. Leaf vegetables most often come from short-lived herbaceous plants, such as lettuce and spinach. Woody plants of various species also provide edible leaves.

The leaves of many fodder crops are also edible for humans, but are usually only eaten under famine conditions. Examples include alfalfa, clover, most grasses, including wheat and barley. Food processing, such as drying and grinding into powder or pulping and pressing for juice, may be used to involve these crop leaves in a diet.

Leaf vegetables contain many typical plant nutrients, but since they are photosynthetic tissues, their vitamin K levels are particularly notable. Phylloquinone, the most common form of the vitamin, is directly involved in photosynthesis.