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Harvest Month of the N e t w o r k f o r a H e a lt h y C a li f o r n i a This material was produced by the California Department of Public Health, Network for a Healthy California, with funding from the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly the Food Stamp Program). These institutions are equal opportunity providers and employers. In California, food stamps provide assistance to low-income households, and can help buy nutritious foods for better health. For food stamp information, call 877-847-3663. For important nutrition information, visit www.cachampionsforchange.net. © California Department of Public Health 2009 Root Vegetables Flower Leaf Stem Stolon (underground stem) Developing Tuber Developed Tuber “Seed” Piece Young Tuber True Roots Adapted from: Buried Treasure: Roots & Tubers by Meredith Sayles Hughes, 1998.
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work for a Healthy California
This material was produced by the California Department of Public Health, Network for a Healthy California, with funding from the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly the Food Stamp Program). These institutions are equal opportunity providers and employers. In California, food stamps provide assistance to low-income households, and can help buy nutritious foods for better health. For food stamp information, call 877-847-3663. For important nutrition information, visit www.cachampionsforchange.net.© California Department of Public Health 2009
Root VegetablesFlower
Leaf
Stem
Stolon (underground stem) Developing Tuber
Developed Tuber “Seed” Piece
Young Tuber
True Roots
Adapted from: Buried Treasure: Roots & Tubers by Meredith Sayles Hughes, 1998.
HarvestMonthof the
Net
work for a Healthy California
This material was produced by the California Department of Public Health, Network for a Healthy California, with funding from the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly the Food Stamp Program). These institutions are equal opportunity providers and employers. In California, food stamps provide assistance to low-income households, and can help buy nutritious foods for better health. For food stamp information, call 877-847-3663. For important nutrition information, visit www.cachampionsforchange.net.© California Department of Public Health 2009
How Do Root Vegetables Grow?Roots and tubers are cool-weather vegetables. Root vegetables such as beets, carrots, radishes, rutabagas, and turnips can be planted in the early spring and late summer for two crops. Tubers are a single crop vegetable that can take up to a year to harvest. Root vegetables need to be thinned so they have enough room to develop properly. Tubers do not require thinning, but they do require space and plenty of soil covering the underground vegetables. Soil, climate, and other conditions can affect the amount of capsaicin in a pepper, so that peppers of the same variety – even on the same plant – can vary in hotness. Habanero peppers contain the highest concentration of capsaicinoid and are the hottest pepper variety.
Roots tubeRsClimate/Growing temperature
50-65 degrees F 60-70 degrees F
soil type and pH level Loamy and well aerated; pH level between 5.5-6.8
Deep, sandy and well draining; pH level between 5.5-6.2
Irrigation Requires regular watering Requires regular watering Planting Annual crop requires direct
seedingPerennial crop started from slips or eyes of the produce
For more information, visit: www.ncsu.edu/sustainable/profiles/pppotato.html http://urbanext.illinois.edu/veggies/potato1.html
