"Showing Furrow Method of Irrigating Potatoes. The arrows indicate the direction taken by the capillary…
Garlic is a vegetable used for many culinary purposes. Garlic is very rarely served raw because of it's…
The goal of growing horseradish is to obtain roots as large as possible before they are old enough to…
The James's keeping onion has a pear shape. It is one of the longest keeping varieties of onion.
Jerusalem artichoke is the tuber of a sunflower. The flower produces white, edible tubers. It can be…
"The Dwarf Purple, of Brown Kale, which is represented in the cut here inserted, is a beautiful curled…
"This vegetable produces blanched shoots which are cooked and eaten in the same manner as asparagus."—Rawson,…
Kohlrabi is a distinct vegetable. It is often described as a cross between a cabbage and a turnip. The…
Leeks are cultivated for the lower part of its leaves. The lower parts of the leaves from a sort of…
"A hardy biennial plant, producing an oblong bulb, or stalk, which has the flavor of an onion, and is…
The common name of lens is lentils. Lens esculenta is the edible variety. The flowers are small and…
Cabbage lettuces have broad, rounded leaves forming a low, spreading head nearly close on the ground.
Types of capsicums include chili, long red, long yellow, small red cayenne, round red, and round yellow.…
Beetroot is a vegetable usually used in salad. The deeply colored roots are the most desired part of…
The Naples giant rocca onion has a roundish, large bulb. The flesh is thick and white.
New Zealand Spinach is cultivated for the use of its young leaves. New Zealand Spinach can be substituted…
Parsnip roots are eaten as a vegetable. Pictured is a parsnip with a portion of its leaves removed.
"Legume of the edible pea (Pisum sativum). a, anther; c, calyx; st, stigma." -Gager, 1916
The common name of phaseolous multiflorus is runner beans or kidney beans. This plant grows tall and…
The broad bean is also known as the fava bean. The pod is green and has a leathery texture.
A fungal disease that affects potato plants. It causes small lesions on the plant, eventually killing…
"A climbing plant and its fruit, of the genus Cucurbita. The pumpkin is originally from India, but is…
The queen onion is a small and very early variety of the silver-skinned section. The bulbs are very…
View of a radish, illustrating the root-hairs, which absorb most of the water the plant needs.
Also known as Raphanus sativus. An edible root vegetable whose seeds can also be used for oil production.…
Also known as Campanula rapunculus. "A hardy biennial, cultivated for the use of its fleshy roots in…
"Rawson's Early Summer excels both in size and earliness, and ranks as the best of the early Drumhead…