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Berries
Berry is a term used to refer to any small edible fruits. They are usually semi-oblong or round, juicy, sweet or sour and brightly colored. Berries do not have a pit or stone, although there may be a lot of seeds.
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Does cotton grow well in the northeast?
Cotton grows best in southern states such as Louisiana, Florida, and Mississippi.
Blackberries and raspberries are two types of berries that can be found on brambles.
In what type of environment are cranberries grown?
The cranberry vine thrives in conditions that would not support most other crops: acid soil, few nutrients and low temperatures, even in summer. Contrary to popular belief, cranberries do not grow in water. They are grown on sandy bogs. Because cranberries float, some bogs are flooded when the fruit is ready for harvesting.
What outdoor flowers grow best in shady wet areas?
Outdoor flowers that grow best in shady, wet areas are canna rhizomes, hostas , geraniums, and daylilies. Blushing Bride spiderwort is also a flower that grows best in this soil.
What is the history behind the cranberry?
Cranberries grow on long-running vines in acidic, sandy bogs and marshes, mostly in the northeast United States, but also in Wisconsin and the Pacific Northwest. Native American used crushed cranberries to preserve food throughout the winter. They also used cranberries as medicine and dye. In 1620, English settlers at Plymouth, Massachusetts, learned to use cranberries from the Native Americans. By 1683, they were making cranberry juice. Cultivation of cranberries began around 1816, after Captain Henry Hall, of Dennis, Massachusetts, noticed that the wild cranberries in his bogs grew better when sand blew over them. Captain Hall began transplanting his cranberry vines, fencing them in, and spreading sand on them himself. By the 1820s, cranberries were being exported to Europe. By the 1850s, American sailors carried cranberries on their voyages to prevent scurvy.
Who was the first see Cocoa beans?
The first European to see Cocoa beans was Christopher Columbus in the West Indies (if not one of his crewmen). The first European to see it consumed as a drink may have been Hernando Cortez in Mexico (if not one of his men). (Cocoa beans were known to the original Human settlers in the New World from prehistoric times, originally probably somewhere in the area of present day Peru.)
Gut berries are berries that Brian Robeson ate which made him sick. (Diarrhea and Vomiting)
What preoccupies berry growers?
Combating insect population and the ravages of horticultural diseases is a major preoccupation of berry growers across the United States.
Actually, a lemon (as well as oranges, limes, and grapefruit) is a hesperidium.
Where in India is the fruit falsa available?
it can easily be found during summers in delhi and uttar pradesh.
Why are cranberries floated on water?
There was actually a tidbit about this on the Discovery Channel. Cranberries are grown in a ground depression because harvesting is easier when they ripen. Basically, when harvest season arrives, the harversters flood the basin with water (to just over the tops of the plants). There is a machine that works as an agitator, and shakes the cranberry plants under water, to where the Cranberries themselves shake free from the plant. Cranberries are *bouyant* and float to the top of the water. When this happens, harvesters can use T-shaped (squeegy on a long handle looking) tool that gathers all the Cranberries to one end of the pool, and then scooped into a box or onto a conveyer belt. This process saves a lot of money on man hours as well as BenGay for sore backs. Cheaper goods is supposed to mean less cost to consumers.
What is the difference between dole bananas and chiquita bananas?
1st answer: Absolutely Nothing. It's just a name.
2nd answer: None. It is just the name of the company that processed the banana.
3rd answer: This is just anecdotal, of course; and it may sound crazy, but in my personal experience (and that's partly what makes it anecdotal) there might actually be some kind of small difference. My wife thought there was no difference, either, and so was buying DOLE brand for years from the local Safeway store, even though I've always told her that, crazy as it may sound, it seemed that Chiquitas were better. Then, after about the 50th time over the years that I complained to her that the Dole bananas were kind of... well... "wet," is the best word I can think of to describe them... sort of almost-slimy under the skin... about the 50th time over the years that I complained to her about that, I asked her if Chiquita-brand was available, and she said not from the Safeway, but that it was from another store she frequented. I asked her to give the Chiquitas a try; that those were what I grew-up eating back in Chicago all my life, and that they were somehow better. She insisted that I was crazy; that there was no difference, but I talked her into at least trying. For over a year, now, we've gotten nothing but Chiquitas, and the other day she remarked, out of the blue, that I was right; that the Chiquitas were somehow more dry; never slimy or "wet" under the skin like the occasional Dole bunch that we used to get. She also remarked that the Chiquitas are sweeter when they're still kinda' green, whereas the Doles, she said, always taste more bland until they yellow-up. I would have laughed at her for that observation except that it's precisely what I noticed about Chiquita versus Dole over twenty years ago. And, trust me, I never shared the whole sweeter-when-still-green thing with her prior to that moment; so she came-up with that one entirely on her own. So, my overarching point is that maybe -- and I stress that word, because I don't know, for sure, nor can prove it... but I'm suggesting that maybe -- Dole bananas and Chiquita bananas are an ever-so-slightly different type or variety or something; that there's maybe some kind of extremely minor difference between them which only a scientist or otherwise expert in varieties of bananas could explain. Or maybe it's because they're harvested differently or something. Who knows. Like I said, it's entirely anectodal; but I'll go to my grave believing that there's at least SOME kind of difference -- whatever it is -- which makes the Chiquitas more generally "dry" than the Doles. Like I said, I know it sounds crazy, but I can definitely discern at least those two very minor differences. I really can.
4th Answer: I just had to post here to comment about the Chiquita vs Dole bananas. In my experience, the Chiquitas are much tastier bananas, though the Dole bananas seem to be bigger. I would much prefer Chiquita, but it seems stores sell either and only one or the other. Perhaps it's the fertilizer or country the bananas are grown in because I thought all bananas are Cavendish bananas. All I know is, Chiquita bananas are better than Dole. (03/07/2012)
What is white fuzzy mold that grows on strawberries when left in the fridge to long?
As a general rule white and blue-green molds on foods are OK to eat even if you leave the mold on the food and will not harm you in any way (but will change the flavor of the food, which you may or may not like). However molds of other colors (e.g. red, orange, black) are usually toxic and could make you sick or sometimes kill you! Immediately discard foods with those colors of mold on them.
Where can you buy berry berry kix?
I found some at Super Target May 09
You can also order some from Amazon.com
What is a strawberry if not a berry?
Technically it is an "aggregate accessory fruit". A berry is a fleshy fruit which doesn't have a pit or "stone" and which is produced from a single flower containing a single ovary. An aggregate accessory fruit is one that develops from the merger of several ovaries that were separate in a single original. Raspberries fall in this same category.
Where can you buy organic berry plants?
You can by organic berry plants almost at any store so if you ask one of the workers they might lead you.
Actually, you can buy them at Trader Joes and anything organic is practically there.
What can you do with red berries?
There are a few uses for redberries.
- Can be used to make red dye via Aggie the witch in Draynor. Cost: 5gp
- Can be used to make redberry pie, which is a requirement for The Knight's Sword quest.
- Redberries have a small use in Goblin Diplomacy and Land of the Goblins quests.
- Were previously used in the Prince Ali Rescue quest to make a skin paste.
- Can be used in the compost bin near any farming area to create normal compost.
Where do blueberries come from?
They are the fruit of a shrub that grows in acidic soil in northern latitudes.
