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Fruits and vegetables that are actually berries: The confusing world of plants
The botanical definition of a berry can be quite different from what we commonly think of as a berry in everyday language. In botany, a berry is a fruit produced from the ovary of a single flower with seeds embedded in the flesh.
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Gardening Secrets: How to Grow Elderberries
You can eat both black elderberry flowers and berries, which can only be eaten when they are fully ripe and turn black and purple. Eating unripe berries can cause poisoning.
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Cranberry: All About the Health Benefits of Berries
Cranberries are a natural antibiotic. The berry contains a large amount of flavonoids and proanthocyanidins, which have the ability to disrupt the attachment of bacteria to the mucous membranes of various organs. These biologically active substances also prevent the growth of bacteria and their reproduction.
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You should grow currants in your garden: The multiple benefits of this plant
Black or red currants can be amazing for food, drinks, or baking - it's a very versatile fruit. Growing currants can be a rewarding and beneficial endeavor for a variety of reasons.
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Gardening Secrets: How to Grow Raspberries
Raspberry shoots in the first year are fluffy, only their lower part is covered with thin brown spines. For 2 years, they grow stronger, begin to bear fruit, then dry up, and new shoots grow from the rhizome.
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Black Grapes: Health Benefits
The most useful are dark varieties - red and blue. Dark grape varieties are a storehouse of iron, thanks to which they maintain a normal level of hemoglobin in the blood.
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Expert Tips: How to Grow Aronia
Chokeberry grows rapidly and begins to bear fruit from 3 years. From mid-August to September, its fruits ripen.
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Acai Berries: Health Benefits
Acai is a nutrient-rich berry that grows in the Brazilian Amazon forests. It is considered one of the most powerful and nutritious berries on the planet, which has been eaten for centuries due to its beneficial properties. Raw Acai berries are slightly bitter.
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Berries freezing mistakes: Things that can make your frozen berries less enjoyable
Freezing berries is a convenient way to preserve their freshness and enjoy them throughout the year. However, there are certain mistakes that people often make when freezing berries that can affect their quality and taste.
Kate Yakimchuk storage tips Cooking 11 August 2023
Berries that don't grow well together: Plan your garden wisely
While it seems logical to plant all berries at one part of your garden, it might actually be not a great idea. Certain berry plants have different growth requirements, and planting them together may not be ideal due to factors like soil preferences, sunlight needs, and susceptibility to diseases.
Kate Yakimchuk plants gardening Garden 8 August 2023
Cranberry Juice: Health Benefits
After drinking the drink, you need to rinse your teeth; Do not consume more than 3 glasses of cranberry juice per day; It is better to prepare a drink on your own or trust trusted manufacturers.
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Gardening Secrets: How to Grow Cherries
About 1000 varieties of cherries are known in the world. Sweet cherry due to less winter hardiness is distributed lower than cherry. A vigorous tree enters into active fruiting at the age of 6-7 years.
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Sea Buckthorn: Health Benefits
Sea buckthorn Orange or red sea buckthorn berries have a dense pulp covered with thin skin, with a specific taste: it is rather bitter and sour and leaves a long aftertaste. Some varieties, more often red-fruited, contain a hint of grapes in the aroma, which improves the taste of berries.
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Persimmon: Health Benefits
The taste of persimmon depends on the variety and ranges from tart-astringent to sweet. In total, there are about a thousand varieties of berries - from red to dark brown, from round to almost square.
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Raspberries: Health Benefits
Raspberries are aromatic and tasty berries that are delicious eaten raw or cooked. From the leaves of the shrub, you can brew a healthy herbal tea. Raspberries contain many vitamins and minerals: calcium, silicon, manganese, iron, phosphorus, zinc, vitamins of group B, C, A.
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Expert Tips: How to Grow Mulberries
You can plant a mulberry seedling in open ground in spring in April before the start of sap flow or in autumn in September-October before the onset of the rainy season.
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Useful Tips for Gardeners: How to Grow Honeysuckle
Honeysuckle tastes a bit like blueberries - it is sweet-sour (often more sour than sweet). However, the main thing in it is not the taste: in terms of the amount of vitamin C, this berry is not inferior to lemon, and in terms of some macro- and microelements, it has no equal in nature at all.
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Pro Tips: How to Grow Viburnum
The fruits are juicy, but have a bitter astringent taste; after the first frost, the bitterness disappears or becomes less. The fruits ripen in August - September. Viburnum can live up to 50 years or more.
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How to collect berries without damaging them: Make sure your harvest is fine
Collecting the harvest of berries without damaging them requires careful and gentle handling to preserve their quality and prevent bruising. That's the only way to make sure that it can store and taste well.
Kate Yakimchuk harvest gardening tips Garden 25 July 2023
Berries that are the least prone to pests: Choose your plants wisely
Berries that are the least prone to pests typically possess natural defenses that make them more resistant to insect damage. These natural defenses may include compounds with deterrent properties or physical characteristics that make them less appealing to pests.
Kate Yakimchuk pests gardening tips planting Garden 23 July 2023