The gripper then turns the fruit by 90 degrees to snap it off its stalk, mimicking the technique a human picker would use. The prototype is picking one strawberry every four seconds, says Mr Coen ...

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help combat a growing agricultural crisis ...

Leafy greens, root vegetables, shoots, stalks, peas, alliums and herbs are all coming into ... so now may be your only chance to enjoy them fresh. Citrus fruits, berries, stone fruits and avocados are ...

Elderberry products have long been a popular crop in Europe. But even though the American elderberry is native to Missouri ...

There, farmers and gardeners utilize the material as support stakes for garden and farm plants such as tomatoes, melons, hops, and fruits. Scandinavians use narrower stalks for ski poles and to ...

Rhubarb sits in the twilight zone of the culinary world — a vegetable moonlighting as a fruit, most commonly found in jams and pies, its brightly colored astringent stalks offset by the sugar in those ...

Last summer we wrote about some of the benefits of planting fruit trees for whitetail deer. This week we’ll look at some ...

5 things to do in the garden this week: Fruit crops. Seedless grapes of Thompson (green ... grow like weeds and will gladly ...

Vibrant red “lobster claw” heliconia flowers and wild ginger grow like weeds among stalks of corn and sugarcane. “José’s family has more fruit than anyone,” says Rosinger. Yet in the ...

Usually, fruits and vegetables have been named according ... If you let it go even longer, it will eventually make a flower stalk and make seeds for next year’s crop.” A pumpkin starts the ...

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5 things to do in the garden this week: Fruit crops. Seedless grapes of Thompson ... will gladly self-sow after they bolt (send up flower stalks) and go to seed. The seeds are also spicy in ...