Lettuce

The owner of the property complained to protothema.gr that apart from her own garden, the official imposed a fine on her aunt who had planted lettuce

Greek consumers often pay nearly three times the price for fruits or vegetables that producers receive when the produce is harvested from the fields. However, the bulk of this price difference doesn't make its way into the pockets of the producers. In reality, producers only retain a profit equivalent to roughly 8 to 9 percent of the final consumer price.

Bulgaria imported more than 55,000 tons of fresh vegetables in the first two months of this year alone - according to the preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute. For the same period, the import of fresh fruit in Bulgaria was nearly 66,000 tons.

An expert has warned that sea lettuces and green algae that occurred in the sea off the western Turkish province of İzmir may poison passersby if authorities fail to take measures. Click through for the story in photos...

A Japanese firm said on Feb. 1 it would open the world's first fully automated farm with robots handling almost every step of the process, from watering seedlings to harvesting crops.

Kyoto-based Spread said the indoor grow house will start operating by the middle of 2017 and produce 30,000 heads of lettuce a day.

For the first time ever, a flower is blooming in space on the International Space Station.

U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted a photo of one of the orange flowers, Zinnians, writing: “First ever flower grown in space makes its debut! #SpaceFlower #zinnia #YearInSpace”.

Astronauts living at the International Space Station took their first bites of space-grown lettuce on August 10, in what scientists described as another step toward enabling human missions to Mars.