Vegetables of CanadaThis book is a comprehensive, extensively illustrated, practical reference guide to about 100 Canadian vegetables. It covers both commercial and home garden crops and includes essentially all of the major, minor, and potentially new vegetables of Canada. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The vegetable economy of Canada | 11 |
Plant classification and plant names | 20 |
Bibliography | 387 |
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Additional notes Curiosities alfalfa annual Asia asparagus Bailey and Bailey beet Bettencourt and Konopka Brassica broccoli broccoli raab Brussels sprouts Buishand cabbage Canada carrot cauliflower celeriac celery Chinese commercial common bean corn corn salad crop cucumber cultivars cultivation Harvest Cultivation notes Soil Description and taxonomy domesticated edible endive English common name Europe Example recipes faba bean fiddleheads flowers French common name fruits Garden cress Genus notes germination germplasm globe artichoke gourd green greenhouse growing grown Halpin Harvest and storage herbaceous home gardens important Jerusalem artichoke kale kohlrabi leaves lettuce Morash mung bean mustard Nonnecke North America notes Soil Climate oleracea Ontario ostrich fern parsnip peas peppers plants Problems and potential production Propagation and cultivation radish rapa Richardson 1990 roots rutabaga salad Schneider 1986 Schultze-Motel 1986 sea kale seeds Selected references Soil Climate Propagation soup species spinach squash storage Example cultivars subsp temperatures Tindall tomato tubers turnip vegetable wild form