First tomatoes, now grapefruit
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It&#39;s been a lousy fall for grocery shoppers. First the cost of tomatoes set new records, and now those lucky enough to find grapefruits can expect to pay more than $1 a piece.
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This is not exactly a season of joy for shippers of gift-boxed grapefruit and oranges. The three hurricanes that battered Florida's citrus groves over the summer devastated the state's grapefruit and orange crop, causing a sharp rise in wholesale prices for the fruit that is stamped, wrapped and nestled in boxes for the chilly north every Christmas season.
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In the face of new competition primarily from China, produce farmers have joined forces for the first time.
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EASY   FEED seedlings and young plants which have been in the same compost for months with half-strength liquid fertiliser.   PINCH out the growing tips on fuchsias, marguerites and pelargoniums to help them bush out.
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Prostate cancer patients are being treated with an artificial version of the pigment lycopene that gives tomatoes their red colour, after a Dutch study found that low doses of lycopene suppressed the growth of human prostate tumours.
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Eating just a quarter of a grapefruit every day may increase the risk of breast cancer, scientists say.
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By Booker T Leigh  Some things to consider when pruning fruit trees and small fruits:  Grapevines produce fruit on the current season's growth emerging from 1-year-old vines. If you prune off all of last season's growth, you'll have a lot of growth, but no fruit.
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An extreme shortage of oenophile gizmos is undoubtedly the reason most nerds shun the fruit of the vine. Problem solved! Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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Neolithic people in China may have been the first in the world to make wine, according to scientists who have found the earliest evidence of winemaking from pottery shards dating from 7,000 BC in northern China.
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DALLAS -- Life for the Washington family has changed. Instead of fast food for dinner, they have grilled chicken and vegetables. Sugary drinks have been replaced with diet soda. Frisbee games in their yard have encroached on television time.
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Supermarkets can't keep pomegranate juices in stock. Farmers can't grow the fruits fast enough. They are everywhere -- in shampoo, on lobster dinners, in beer, even on Christmas wreathes.
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A tenth of the world&#39;s irrigated crops - everything from lettuce and tomatoes to mangoes and coconuts - are watered by sewage. And much of that sewage is raw and untreated, gushing direct from sewer pipes into fields at the fringes of the developing ...
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Tycho:  You can download homebrewed ROMs for the Fruit Fucker that enhance the efficiency of the feed reamer or allow you to juice via SMS.  I'd read on FFHacks.com tweaking boards that the machine had an array of sensors that had no apparent juicing purpose.  Of course, "hackzors" up to their spectacles in system-level code are probably the last people to read the manual.
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A scientist who developed new ways to process, transport and store large amounts of fruits and vegetables while maintaining their nutritional value was announced Monday as winner of the 2007 World Food Prize.
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Monsanto and BASF team up to grow better plants.
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Because of hurricane damage, Florida&#39;s grapefruit crop this season will be the smallest since the Depression, and its orange crop the worst in 13 years, agriculture officials said in a forecast issued Friday.
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Processed produce has a long journey from the grower to the table, increasing the number of chances for contamination &#151; and making it easier to spread.