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- Lesley's Recipe Archive: Vegetable Recipes - Small collection of recipes including Lemon Peas, Root Vegetable Gratin, and Honey and Balsamic Glazed Carrots.
- Watch Your Garden Grow - Carrot - Recipes, tips on using carrots and also instructions for freezing and canning them, as well as information on growing this root vegetable in your garden.
- Irish Eyes: How to Grow Potatoes - Guide includes alternative hilling techniques and how to get multiple crops in warmer climates.
- Roasted Root Vegetables with Apple Juice - Makes eight servings. Nutritional information and recipe scaling available.
- Winter Root Vegetable Soup - This dish contains beets, parsnips, rutabaga, and turnips.
- Potatoes - Flowers, Tubers, Varieties and Cooking Qualities - Describes diversity of heirloom varieties, how to grow potatoes in no-dig beds and containers, and how to breed new varieties from seed. With photographs.
- Ohio State University Extension: Growing Potatoes in the Home Garden - Gives information on soil requirements, cultivation and weed control, insect and disease control, and harvesting and storage.
- Ohio State University Extension: Growing Onions in the Home Garden - Features information on climatic and soil requirements, fertilizers, establishing, suggested varieties, cultural practices, and harvesting, curing and storing.
- Ohio State University Extension: Growing Garlic in the Home Garden - Gives information on soil requirements, planting, harvest and storage, pests, and possible use problems.
- Ohio State University Extension: Growing Carrots in the Home Garden - Describes climatic requirements, soils, fertilizers, how to establish the plant, cultural practices, harvesting and storage, and varieties.
Wikipedia Articles
- Root vegetable - Root vegetables are plant roots used as vegetables. Other underground plants are often, erroneously, called root vegetables.
- BBCH-scale (root and stem vegetable) - The BBCH-scale (root and stem vegetables) identifies the phenological development stages of the root and stem vegetables (Carrot = Daucus carota ssp. sativus, celeriac = Apium graveolens var.
- Root cellar - A root cellar is a structure that was used in the before the advent of electricity to store vegetables during the winter months. Some were made by digging down into the ground, sometimes with a shed built over it.
- Tekka - Tekka is the name for a certain miso-condimentTekka introductionTekka example that consists of a number of root vegetables (Greater Burdock roots, carrots, Ginger root, and Lotus root) which have been stir-fried and boiled to a concentrated powder. Traditional preperation time used to be 16 hours (on a low fire), yet speedier preparation is possible.
- Plectranthus - Plectranthus is a genus of warm-climate plants, closely related to Solenostemon, sometimes known as the spurflowers. Several species are grown as ornamental plants, as leaf vegetables, as root vegetables for their edible tubers, or as medicine.