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Whizz11 Butternut Squash: ... autumn turns to winter my thoughts turn to comfort foods and in particular home made soups. I love making soups as they are really easy and tasty and one of my favourite ingredients at this time of year is the Butternut Squash. A Butternut squash is a type of winter squash. It has a sweet, nutty taste that is similar to pumpkin. It has yellow skin and orange fleshy pulp. When ripe, it turns increasingly deep orang...
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Plants - Onions Onions
Plants / Plant March through to April harvest normally in August. Onions are available in fresh, frozen, canned, pickled, and dehydrated forms. Onions can be used, usually chopped or sliced, in almost every type of food, including cooked foods and fresh salads, and as a spicy garnish; they are rare...
overall rating  17 reviews
 
Sweet Pea Sweet Pea
Plants / Lathyrus odoratus is a flowering plant in the genus Lathyrus in the family Fabaceae (legumes), native to the eastern Mediterranean region from Sicily east to Crete. It is an annual climbing plant, growing to a height of 1-2 m where suitable support is available. The leaves are pinnate w...
overall rating  15 reviews
 
Plants - Carrots Carrots
Plants / Daucus carota subsp. sativus is a root vegetable, usually orange or white in color, with a woody texture. The edible part of a carrot is a taproot. It is a biennial plant which grows a rosette of leaves in the spring and summer, while building up the stout taproot, which stores large amoun...
overall rating  11 reviews
 
Pumpkins Pumpkins
Plants / Squash fruit, usually orange in color when ripe (although there are also white, red, and gray varieties). Pumpkins grow as a gourd from a trailing vine of the genus Cucurbita (family Cucurbitaceae). Cultivated in North America, continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand, India and some oth...
overall rating  10 reviews
 
Plants - Parsnips Parsnips
Plants / Root vegetable related to the carrot, paler in colour and stronger in taste.
overall rating  9 reviews
 
 
Celery Celery
Food / Plants / Vegetable - Also known as celeriac.
overall rating  7 reviews
 
 
Plants - Runner Beans Runner Beans
Plants / Phaseolus coccineus is often called the scarlet runner bean since most varieties have red flowers and multicolored seeds, though some have white flowers and white seeds. It differs from the common bean in several respects: the cotyledons stay in the ground during germination, and the plant...
overall rating  9 reviews
 
Chili Chili
Plants / Chilis are in the same family as tomatoes and potatoes. They are grown for their fruits, which are usually picked when green, although they can be left to turn red on the bush, which usually takes about another 2 to 3 weeks. They are best picked green as leaving them on the plant until red...
overall rating  6 reviews
 
Plants - Rhubarb Rhubarb
Plants of the genus Rheum, especially R. rhabarbarum, having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks that are edible when sweetened and cooked. Rhubarb is a perennial plant that grows from thick short rhizomes, comprising the genus Rheum. This genus is in the family Polygonaceae, along wit...
overall rating  7 reviews
 
Cress Cress
Plants / Cress can refer to several edible members of the family Brassicaceae used as leaf vegetables including watercress, land cress, garden cress and winter cress. Garden cress (Lepidium sativum) is a fast-growing, edible plant botanically related to watercress and mustard and sharing their ...
overall rating  6 reviews
 
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berrydelight Pumpkins
... They contain a high level of fibre, 3 grams in one cup as well as potassium which can lower hypertension. They generally weigh between 4-8 kg and I remember many years ago throwing the whole thing out on the 1st November! Disgraceful! Thanks to Wikipedia I learnt that although we used to carve creepy faces into all other manner of vegetables it wasn t until the 1837 that we did the same to a pumpkin and even later before they became synonymous with Halloween. This year mine was lovingly turned into a ghost, I draw on them first and then spend a good hour perfecting the somewhat sinister image. Once my pumpkin has had its night of glory I cut it into sections, r...
Read the full review: As the nights draw near fill your tum with some Pumpkin cheer! by berrydelight
ecolojo Spinach
... Perpetual or Beet Spinach - Home grown perpetual spinach (Beta vulgaris var cicla) is a very productive crop that is easy to grow, easier than conventional spinach, and delicious. Perpetual Spinach is available into the winter, and will regrow vigourously early the following year, a welcome crop at a time when greens are scarce. See my article on suite101 for ideas on How to Cook Perpetual Spinach . +++ How to Grow Organic Perpetual Spinach +++ Sow: If you want a summer crop from March to May but this is not the most useful time for a crop of Perpetual Spinach. More useful is the later harvest, from around November to April from seeds sown in July and August. ...
Read the full review: Very useful vegetable when others are scarce by ecolojo
ecolojo Parsnips
... Parsnips - Easy to grow and plentiful, organic parsnips are a winter staple vegetable. Delicious roasted, steamed, made into a spicy soup, or even into a delicious, but potent, country wine! +++ How to Grow Organic Parsnips +++ Directly in the ground from March to May. For a harvest in the Autumn. Parsnips are slow to germinate so sow in a very straight line to make weeding easy. Harvest: From October as a baby vegetable, in November for indoor storage or leave in the ground to harvest when needed until springtime. Dig the roots up carefully with a garden fork. Storage: Parsnips may be stored in slightly damp sand when harvested in November. This ensures a su...
Read the full review: Great vegetable during the lean season by ecolojo
 
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