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Purple Broccoli Information

December 28, 2021Posted inVegetables

Purple broccoli is a spring season type of gourmet broccoli cultivar distinct from traditional green sprouting broccoli which produces light purple to deep purple colored buds. Stems and leaves can also be purple or traditional green depending on variety. Purple sprouting broccoli has many varieties with the best considered varieties producing sweet flavored leaves and tender stems. Purple broccoli is a special crop because of its ability to overwinter which guarantees winter food production.

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Armenian Cucumber Information

December 26, 2021Posted inVegetables

Armenian cucumber is a cucumber-like heirloom vegetable which is closely related to the watermelon. It is slender and elongated in shape, tastes and looks like a regular cucumber when harvested at a certain size. Armenian cucumber is also known by several other names which include snake cucumber, snake melon and yard-long cucumber. Furthermore, it also has local names such as uri in Japan, chanbar in Persian, tirozî in Kurdish, feggous in Morocco, and tortarello in Italian. If left to grow on the ground, the Armenian cucumber plant produces typically bent and twisted fruit from whence the name snake comes from.

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Persian Cucumber Information

December 25, 2021Posted inVegetables

Persian cucumber is an heirloom or hybrid bitterless cucumber cultivar well known for its sweet mild taste, thin spineless skin and crunch. The Persian cucumber has many varieties and is also known as the Beit Alpha, Beit Alfa, Middle Eastern cucumber, Lebanese cucumber and sometimes called mini-cucumber. This cucumber is considered among burpless cucumbers owing to its low level of the compound cucurbitacin. It has thin edible skin and very few tiny seeds which mainly remain underdeveloped.

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Pimento Peppers Information

December 18, 2021Posted inVegetables

Pimento peppers is an umbrella name encompassing a range of sweet pepper varieties that look somewhat similar to bell peppers but apparently differs in taste, shape and size. Pimento, also sometimes written as Pimiento, is Spanish for pepper. Depending on variety, the pepper can have an appearance of a miniature pumpkin, can be conical or heart-shaped with red or blood red skin and flesh when fully ripe. Just like bell peppers, pimento peppers have zero pungency and are used in a variety of culinary recipe applications.