The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener
The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener

Author: Niki Jabbour

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC

Published: 2011-12-14

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1603427856

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Even in winter’s coldest months you can harvest fresh, delicious produce. Drawing on insights gained from years of growing vegetables in Nova Scotia, Niki Jabbour shares her simple techniques for gardening throughout the year. Learn how to select the best varieties for each season, the art of succession planting, and how to build inexpensive structures to protect your crops from the elements. No matter where you live, you’ll soon enjoy a thriving vegetable garden year-round.

Advances in Preservation and Processing Technologies of Fruits and Vegetables
Advances in Preservation and Processing Technologies of Fruits and Vegetables

Author: S. Rajarathnam

Publisher: New India Publishing

Published: 2011-01-15

Total Pages: 762

ISBN-13: 9789380235523

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The book consists of 19 chapters on different subjects and in different dimensions, with particular emphasis on the post-harvest handling and processing of fruits and vegetables, including mushrooms. Scope for the technology on fruits and vegetables, non-destructive methods to evaluate fresh quality, radiation preservation, chemistry of pectin and pigments and their applications, nutraceutical compounds, membrane processing of liquid fruits, dehydrated and intermediate moisture products, importance of bamboo and mushrooms as food, influence of process conditions on product quality, food additives in product preparation, packaging aspects, microbiological safety concerns, relevant analytical methods, mushroom nutraceuticals and bio-technological interventions for improvement of banana with a final note on conclusions in the last

Get Up and Grow
Get Up and Grow

Author: Lucy Hutchings

Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing

Published: 2021-04-29

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 1784884200

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"Clear, modern and inspiring" - Alan Titchmarsh, gardener and broadcaster In this truly innovative book Lucy Hutchings – aka She Grows Veg – proves that vegetable gardening doesn't always require outdoor space. Through clever uses of space and containers, understanding of growing conditions and a unique, design-led approach, Lucy showcases how anyone can grow pretty much anything in their back garden, courtyard, balcony or kitchen. Lucy creates 19 projects, from living vegetable walls and hydroponics basics, to indoor greenhouses and hanging herb racks that have all the decorative style and visual interest of ornamental house plants. With step-by-step illustrations and stunning photography, with Get Up and Grow, you can go from gardening novice to growing pro in a matter of weeks. Lucy is blazing a trail for new-wave gardening with a mantra of anything is possible, for anyone.

Pesticides in Fruits and Vegetables
Pesticides in Fruits and Vegetables

Author: Susan E. Kegley

Publisher: University Science Books

Published: 1998-08-12

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9780935702460

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This 3-to-4 week laboratory module introduces students to the practice of risk assessment in the context of organochlorine pesticides in food. The chemical concepts covered include structure/solubility relationships of organic compounds, gas chromatography, biodegradation, bioaccumulation, and organic extraction techniques. In the final assignment, two groups of students (the agribusiness group and environmentalists) stage a debate over the use of pesticides. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR