Vegetable Varieties
Vegetable gardens have often been the center of family and community life for centuries. Vegetable gardens are a great way to provide healthy food for your entire family. These gardens are also a great way to save money at the grocery store. These types of gardens are a lot more popular today than they have ever been in history.
Vegetable gardens are pieces of land devoted solely to growing and selling various edible plants and fruit. Vegetables are edible parts of fruit or plants which humans eat. The original intended meaning is still widely used and is often applied collectively to all edible vegetable plant material, including the fruits, vegetables, greens, leaves, roots, and flowers. However, it should be noted that there is a difference between plants and fruit.
The edible part of a vegetable is the skin and the edible seeds and inner stems. Fruits are on the outside of the plant. Vegetables can have skins and can sometimes have seeds inside them. A vegetable is considered to be a fruit if it is able to bear fruit when it is mature. Some examples of fruit vegetable plants are squash, cauliflower, okra, carrots, potatoes, corn, peas, mushrooms, spinach, lettuce, beans, and avocados.
Flowers are on the inside of a plant and are referred to as stalks. The flowers produce the fruit. An example of a vegetable with flowers is the violet leaf lettuce plant. Flowers are a vegetable when their flowers produce the fruit which is their mate. Flowers are not a vegetable, but some plants will grow into a flower and then produce seeds to form another vegetable.
Tender plants such as the potato plant, sweet potato, yams, Purslane and beans are a few examples of the commonly consumed tuber vegetables. A variety of other vegetables are the members of the legume family. Legumes are in categories that span across the globe. There are seven sub categories of legumes. These include kidney beans, cowpeas, chickpeas, black beans, green peas, onions, and radishes. Linguini is a legume plant that grows wild in India.
Leaves are the edible part of the vegetable. The vegetable is considered to be cooked when the edible part of the plant is removed. The stems of some vegetables lose their leaves while others retain their leaves. Edible parts of vegetables are those parts of the plant that come into contact with human beings. Examples of these parts include the edible roots and the leaves of some members of the legume family. Plants that have no edible parts are called leafy vegetables.