Agriculture
fromBon Appetit
7 years agoWhat Are Heirloom Tomatoes, Anyway?
Heirloom tomatoes come from long-saved, open-pollinated seeds chosen for flavor and traits rather than uniformity, shipping, or disease resistance.
Garden angelica, Angelica archangelica, belongs to the Apiaceae family, the same botanical group as carrots, celery, fennel, and parsley. Like its relatives, it produces a large, distinctively umbrella-shaped inflorescence, or flower cluster, called umbels. In its first year, the plant forms a lower mound of bright green leaves. In the second, a thick, hollow stem shoots upward and unfurls the broad green flower heads that resemble wild carrot or Queen Anne's Lace.