Vegetable Database

[marigold007]

Does anyone here recommend a good online (or offline book) database with vegetable names, which includes scientific names and cultivar groups?

[quark1]

Try this for a start - it covers seed varieties by major 'group' rather than by individual varietal names within group.

Thompson & Morgan: Guide to Seed Sowing

Masses of flower varieties but trust me - there are vegeatables there too!

Don't know if possible - but if you're really clever you could try and see if your could download in comma delimited format to try and form up your own databse to which you could add further 'personal' observations? V.Long time since I wrote programs to interpret 'literal' data into databases - I'm sure there will be someone here with more up-to-date knowlege of the preferred methods. Of course there is simply the print and input method.

[quark1]

Permission? - it would of course depend on how you 'disguised' the original material.

If it looked like you had plagiarised a complete section and simply added to it, T&M may well have a 'case' against you. T&M seem to me to very much into educating us plant lovers and I'm sure that they would be amenable to the use of their data for educational purposes - both personal and wider audience. I would, think to cover yourself and as a courtesy, just ask if OK and perhaps it might be an incentive to T&M if you were to leave a link to their site for possible sales/recommends? I'm assuming this is purely being done out of 'love' for the subject and not as some money making enterprise?

Having said that - what is to stop anyone from harvesting data from many sources and presenting in their preferred format? Enjoy the project!