About Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) belongs to the daisy family, Asteraceae. It is a hardy annual that is easy to cultivate and most often grown for its leaves. It is, however, often plagued on by a number
About Used for lawns and sports fields, such as stadiums, golf courses, horse-racing tracks, athletic grounds, cricket pitches and football fields, turf provides the perfect base for a wide variety of
About This is a hybrid cereal – a crossing of wheat (Triticum) and rye (Secale ) created in laboratories in Scotland and Germany in the late 1880s – to create a cereal with the yield potential and gra
About Spinach (Spinacia oleracea ) is an edible flowering plant of the Amarantha family that originates in Asia. It is consumed as vegetable and is rich in iron. It is grown as a vegetable worldwide a
About Rye is grown extensively as a grain as a cover crop and forage crop. Rye ( Secale cereale ) is a member of the wheat family, Triticeae , a close relative to the cereal, barley and wheat. It is u
About This popular vegetable is a round seed in the seed pod of the fruit, Pisum sativum . Pods of this plant develop from the ovary of a pea flower and carry numerous peas. The vegetable is a bright
About This important cereal is grown for its seed and is used in food production, as oatmeal and rolled oats, and most commonly in livestock feed, especially for horses to boost their energy. It is ma
About Known for its somewhat bitter taste, this subtropical citrus tree has a fruit that is sour to semi-sweet. Grapefruit ( Citrus paradisi ) is a hybrid between a pomelo ( C. maxima ) and an orange
About Originally from Mexico, Central and South America, this common tropical fruit is cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions. A vivid yellow or green on the outside, Psidium guaiava, is
About The radish ( Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. Sativus ) is an edible root vegetable that belongs to the Brassicaceae family. This plant was already domesticated in Europe in pre-Roman times. Radish