Organic gardening is it a fruit or a vegetable?

I love my vegetable garden, and I suspect you enjoy yuors too. We eat
one or two meals a day from our garden, and my wife Araksya is an
outstanding cook when it comes to using fresh garden produce.
Sometimes I'll look at a meal with 6 or 8 items from the garden and
think "how great it is to have such a wide variety of vegetables to
eat.

But I was reminded last week that many things we consider vegetables
are really fruits, botanically speaking! Let me give you a list of
the items from a typical garden that are actually fruits, rather than
vegetables - even though we eat them as the main part of the meal,
rather than for dessert.

Garden fruits include Peppers, eggplant, pumpkin, squash, and tomatoes.

While I'm classifying things, let's distinguish some categories of
vegetables, as well: Those whose leaves we eat include basil,
brussels sprouts, beetgreens, cabbage, chard, cilantro, endive, kale,
lettuce, mustard greens, onions, parsley, spinach, turnip greens, and
watercress.

We eat the roots of beets, carrots, parsnips, radishes, rutabagas,
sweet potatoes, and turnips. And we eat tubers of potatoes and yams.

We eat the seeds of several kinds of beans, corn, peas, pumpkins, and
sunflowers. And we eat the seed pods of chili peppers, green beans,
okra, snap peas, snow peas, and wax beans.

We eat the stems of asparagus, celery, leeks, green onions, and
rhubarb.

We even eat the flowers of artichokes, broccoli, and cauliflower. And
in places like Japan people prize the squash flowers, and eat the
petals - hopefully after they are pollinated.

Let's not forget the bulbs of onions and garlic - these are used more
often in our garden cooking than just about anything else.

Did I forget to list your favorites. As you put your garden to bed
for the winter, begin to plan now for the vegetables and fruit you
want to grow and eat next spring.

Good Growing,