10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRISPHEAD»
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crisphead in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
crisphead and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Handbook of Vegetable Science and Technology: Production, ...
Lipton and Ryder (5) grouped modern lettuce cultivars into six morphological
types: crisphead, butterhead, cos or romaine, leaf, Latin, and stem. The varieties
under each category differ greatly in texture, color, and other characteristics.
D. K. Salunkhe, S. S. Kadam, 1998
2
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Plants: From Acacia to Zinnia [3 ...
In the early 20th century crisphead, grown in the American West, eclipsed
butterhead so that in 1955, crisphead accounted for more than 95 percent of
lettuce grown in the United States. After 1980, however, butterhead recrudesced,
and leaf ...
3
Rodale's Vegetable Garden Problem Solver: The Best and ...
THE CHALLENGE OF CRISPHEAD LETTUCE MEXICAN BEAN BEETLES
Mexican bean beetles awake from winter dormancy. forecast. Once nighttime
temperatures in the mid-20s are predicted, it's time to cover lettuce with row cover
or ...
Fern Marshall Bradley, 2007
4
Quality and Preservation of Vegetables
Crisphead lettuce, cultivar Merit. handling abuse, and a long period between
harvest and consumption. Crisphead lettuce was best suited for meeting these
requirements, and it quickly became the dominant type. The features that
distinguish ...
TYPES OF LETTUCE AND THEIR ADAPTATION The varieties of lettuce may be
divided into five general classes : Crisphead ; butterhead ; cos, or romaine ; leaf,
or bunching ; and stem. Although the culture of all is much the same, they differ ...
6
Genetic Improvement of Vegetable Crops
For example, fast-maturing crisphead varieties are less likely to have good
holding ability in the field and so are more suited for early rather than main-
season production. Germplasm Resources There is a wide range of
morphological variation ...
G. Kalloo, B.O. Bergh, 1993
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Diabetes Cookbook For Canadians For Dummies
Crisphead lettucehasacrunch or crispness.Theleavesform a compact headthat
resembles acabbage.The flavour of crisphead lettuce is mild to bland. Crisphead
lettuce can be shredded, cut into wedges, or torn by hand. Iceberg lettuce,the ...
Ian Blumer, MD, Cynthia Payne, 2010
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Vegetables I: Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Chenopodicaceae, and ...
CRISPHEAD Commonly called “iceberg” or head lettuce, the crisphead type
produces a spherical firm head that weighs between 700 and 1000 g when
grown in the field. The early leaves are elongated at the rosette stage, and
gradually ...
Jaime Prohens-Tomás, Fernando Nuez, 2007
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Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop ...
Crisphead has two important subtypes, iceberg and batavia. Crisphead lettuce
forms a head with crisp textured leaves. The iceberg subtype is the larger of the
two, both in weight and volume. It forms a dense spherical head of overlapping ...
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Vegetable Gardening For Dummies
The fourbasictypesoflettuce —crisphead, loosehead,looseleaf, and romaine
lettuce (all shown in Figure 101) — offer anumberoftastyvarieties to delight the
palate. The most common are greencolored leaf varieties, but you can grow
many red ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CRISPHEAD»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
crisphead is used in the context of the following news items.
Nutrition Corner: Buy leafy greens from the farmer
Romaine, Butter head, Crisphead, and loose leaf are all varieties of lettuce that can be found at the market. Locally-grown lettuce, however, has stiff competition. «The Sunday Dispatch, Jul 15»
Best ways to harvest greens
The thinning method can be used with any greens, except crisphead lettuce. You can start thinning when plants are only a few inches tall. «Lincoln Journal Star, Jun 15»
Lettuce, Explained at Last
Batavian, or crisphead, lettuces form tight heads that can be harvested even in high summer. The seeds will germinate in hot weather too. «Martha's Vineyard Magazine, Jun 15»
In Defense of the Iceberg Wedge
Iceberg lettuce was known as crisphead lettuce until the late 1920s, when Bruce Church had the idea to start shipping lettuce from Salinas, ... «TheStranger.com, Apr 15»
Grow lovely lettuces in your own garden
Crisphead lettuces such as the iceberg type commonly sold in the grocery store are more difficult to grow. They often take longer to mature and ... «Hartford Courant, Apr 15»
Greens: Grow them in your garden, use them in your cooking
Lettuce comes in six types: leaf, crisphead, Romaine, butter, stem and Latin. Latin lettuce varieties are used mainly in South America and parts ... «The Idaho Statesman, Mar 15»
In Your Garden with Jenny Watts: Crisp, tasty lettuce
Crisphead lettuce is probably the most familiar. It makes a tight, firm head of crisp, light-green leaves. In general, crisphead lettuce is not ... «The Willits News, Feb 15»
Willits Farmers Market: Last indoor market of year
Fancy crisphead lettuce, salad mix, Napa cabbage, arugula, and kohlrabi turn up at market these days. Elizabeth Blecha, who brings sturdy ... «The Willits News, Dec 14»
It's cold outside; time to plant lettuce
There are four major types of lettuce: crisphead (iceberg), butterhead (tender with a sweet flavor and prized in Europe), leaf (the most ... «Highlands Today, Dec 14»
Crop of the week: Lettuce Seed
There are 4 main types of lettuce: Butterhead, loose heads, grassy green leaves, butter texture, mild flavor; Crisphead, the least nutritious of the ... «Yuma Sun, Nov 14»
