greens

If you're a beginning gardener and have never grown a vegetable in your life before, try greens. You'll find no easier group of vegetables to grow than greens.

Greens are the most basic and prevalent life form on the planet. In the waters, the greens are represented in large and microscopic plant life such as phytoplankton, which grow abundantly in oceans around the world and are the foundation of the marine food chain. On land, the greens can be represented in many green plants and tree foliage with access to sunlight and water. They all contain the pigment chlorophyll for photosynthesis.

Tip greens - the new growth at the ends of branches - are often harvested either for the wholesale or retail market, or for one's own processing.

Some years ago, moths ruined my greens, and my son, a career Army man, sensed my loss.