Tender perennials

J. A frost-tender perennial usually grown as an annual in a sunny, sheltered spot or in a greenhouse. It prefers light, free-draining, fertile soil, and grows well in eontainers. Cultivars vary in leaf size, eolor, and flavor. Pinoh out shoot tips for bushy growth remove flowers to promote leaf produetion. 

Begonia. Tender perennials grown as annuals, and tubers. 

Eggplants are tender perennials that are i as annuals in temperate regions for the -f.eshed fruit. Fruit shapes range from long iiTC hin to short and blocky and may be e. yellow, or dark purple. Harvest fruit at iir- size, preferably before seeds turn brown icc. ".arden. ... 

Peppers are tender perennials that are grown as annuals in temperate climates for their sweet to fiery hot fruit. Pick peppers when they are unripe and green (or sometimes yellow or purple-black) or after they ripen to red, orange, yellow, or brown, depending on the cultivar. In general, ripe peppers are sweeter or less hot than unripe ones of the same cultivar. 

Classification can also be under tender annuals, hardy annuals, biennials, tender perennials and hardy perennials. 

Asparagus is a long-lived perennial. Its tender young shoots are one of the first vegetables ready to harvest in the spring. 

The cranesbills, Gemnium spp., are hardy, easy-to-grow perennials that are often confused with the more tender zonal or bedding... 

Herbicidal soaps are most effective on young weeds with tender lenf tissue. They are not very effective against mature perennial weeds, especially those with tap roots. Spray on weeds according to label directions. 

Perennial that can be fed with comfrey to give a new crop of tender leaves each year. Use for indigestion, nausea, gas, colds and, served cold, to bring down fevers. 

Winter savory (5. montana) is a bristly perennial subshrub with a woody base and oblong-linear leaves up to about 38 cm high native to the Mediterranean region and widely cultivated. Parts used are the leaves and tender stems. 

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