Monthly Archives: November 2017

Celery

Ribbed celery does not produce a root callus. It forms a tight rosette with long, thickened, fleshy and juicy petioles, having a length 16-26 cm and width from 3 do 4 cm, with a strong aroma. They have …

Roman salad.

Romaine lettuce varieties differ in the shape of an upwardly elongated head and are divided into two types: tightly binding and loosely binding heads. The leaves of the first group twist inward with their tips and form well …

Crispy head lettuce. Crunchy lettuce is slightly different from butter lettuce. Creates very large heads, hard, with a diameter from 15 do 20 cm, weighing from 700 do 1000 g, with round leaves, in shape of …

All cultivated varieties of lettuce belong to one botanical species – Lactuca sativa (the most widespread is the cultivation of butter lettuce). The biological value of lettuce is mainly due to the fact that it contains a good amount of mineral salts: calcium and iron and vitamin A., B,, B2, E i C. …

Garden cress

Garden cress is a small plant with small, cut leaves. The entire aboveground part of the plant is eaten at a very early stage of growth. The plant contains a small amount of protein, sugars and mineral salts. Its nutritional value mainly lies in 2-, 3-times greater …

Vegetable purslane

Vegetable purslane is an annual plant, creeping up, with fleshy stems and leaves. The edible part is the leaves prepared like spinach and petioles, and the whole shoots like asparagus. It has a high taste and nutritional value, because it contains calcium mineral salts, phosphorus, …