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Adams has photographed Appalachian families since the mid-1970s. [2] He had first encountered the poor families of the Appalachian Mountains as a child, travelling around the area with his uncle, who was a doctor. [3] His work has been published in three monographs: Appalachian Portraits (1993), Appalachian Legacy (1998), and Appalachian Lives ...
Vittaria appalachiana, or the Appalachian shoestring fern, is a fern species in the subfamily Vittarioideae of the family Pteridaceae. It is native to moist and shaded outcrops in the Appalachian Mountains. It is notable for existing only in the gametophyte stage of development, unlike other fern species in which the sporophyte stage ...
By Esther Sung The word "pepper" refers to members of the genus Capsicum, which includes hot varieties, also known as chile peppers, and sweet varieties, such as the bell pepper. Up until the ...
Ewina Pepper died November 11, 1988, at Appalachian Regional Hospital in South Williamson, Kentucky. Edwina Pepper's grave is near her home, "The Knob", [1] which is now a children's summer camp. [16] According to the Lexington Herald-Leader obituary for Pepper, consumer advocate Ralph Nader said, "Mrs Pepper an 'unsung heroine'" in 1977. He ...
The Victory Garden is an American public television program about gardening and other outdoor activities, which was produced by station WGBH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, and distributed by PBS. It was the oldest gardening program produced for television in the United States, premiering April 16, 1975.
The pepper has a Scoville scale rating of 10,000-23,000 SHU [1] depending on cultivation and preparation, making it more spicy than the jalapeño. The peter pepper has both ornamental [2] and culinary use. Common uses include pickling, [3] salsa, and chili pepper. [6] It can be used like jalapeño or serrano peppers. [6] Peter peppers
The Piperaceae (/ ˌ p ɪ p ə ˈ r eɪ ʃ iː /), also known as the pepper family, are a large family of flowering plants. The group contains roughly 3,600 currently accepted species in five genera. The vast majority of species can be found within the two main genera: Piper (2,171 species) and Peperomia (over 1,000 species). [4]
Plants commonly grown hydroponically include tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, strawberries, lettuces, and cannabis, usually for commercial use, as well as Arabidopsis thaliana, which serves as a model organism in plant science and genetics. [8] Hydroponics offers many advantages, notably a decrease in water usage in agriculture.