Green fruits come in all shapes and sizes. The most common types of green fruits are apples, pears, and green grapes. Some examples of green fruits with sour sharp taste include limes, gooseberries, sour plums, and the unusual cucamelon. Varieties of green tropical fruits with delicious taste include breadfruit and jackfruit. There are also green fruits like avocado and cucumbers that we tend to think of as vegetables.

Spring is a great time to plant vegetables in your spring garden. After the cold winter months and when the weather warms, you can start sowing seeds, planting bulbs, and getting root vegetables in the ground. The best vegetables to plant in spring are ones that can survive light frosts, warm sunny days, and cool nights. If you plant vegetables at the right time, your spring garden could produce lettuce, kale, carrots, peas, and radishes by early summer.

Growing winter vegetables is a great way to enjoy fresh vegetables from your garden all year long. Many vegetables such as kale, carrots, parsnips, and broccoli continue to grow in cold weather. There are even some winter vegetables that survive harsh frosts—albeit with some protection. If you plant some vegetables in late summer or fall, you can expect to enjoy plenty of healthy winter crops.

Plums are delicious fruits that grow on trees and are classified in the genus Prunus. Plum fruits are a type of drupe because they have a stone in the middle that’s surrounded by soft, sweet or tart flesh. There are around 40 species of plums, and a single plum tree can yield around 100 lbs. (45 kg) of medium-sized fruits.

Perennial vegetables give you a bounty of tasty and nutritious edible plants year after year. The beauty of growing perennial food plants in your garden is that you don’t need to plant them annually. You have less work to do in the springtime because you have no seeding, planting, or preparation to grow your perennial vegetables. So, once you plant perennial crops, you can enjoy their benefits for many years.

Peaches are juicy fruits that contain a large stone in the middle and have yellow or white flesh. Many people say that peaches with white flesh are usually sweeter and less acidic than peaches with yellow flesh. However, yellow peaches tend to be more popular in Western countries. Their tangy sweetness, juicy flesh, and amazing flavor make peaches popular fruit in most countries. There are over 2,000 varieties of peaches, one of which—a peach without fuzzy skin—is called a nectarine.

The different types of citrus fruits are zesty and tangy and are packed full of flavor. The taste of citrus fruits is a varying combination of sweet and sour flavors that refresh, delight, and invigorate your taste buds. There are over 100 different varieties of citrus fruits. Citrus fruits such as lemons and limes can be so sour, they make your mouth pucker. Others such as oranges are delicious and sweet with a slightly tangy taste.

Sweet potatoes are a type of root vegetable that look and taste different from regular potatoes. Varieties of sweet potato such as Beauregard and Jewel are very popular in many countries. However, there are hundreds of different types of sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes varieties have white flesh or orange flesh, and, there are even some varieties with purple flesh.

Grapefruit is a type of citrus fruit that comes in red, pink, yellow, and white colors. When talking about types of grapefruit, its colors usually refer to the citrus flesh, not the rind color. The juicy grapefruit segmented flesh is surrounded by a thick skin that is generally shades of orange or yellow. Some kinds of grapefruit have dark green skin covering juicy sweet white flesh.

There are hundreds of varieties of cauliflower that come in various colors. The most common type of cauliflower is the white variety with its distinct ivory-white head and dark green leaves. There are other colored cauliflower varieties that are purple, yellow, orange, and green.