Not exact matches
Kudzu, known as the mile - a-minute
plant for
how quickly it grows, is in the
pea family and was introduced to the U.S. from Asia by gardeners in the 1930s.
We learn, for example,
how bacteria allow the Hawaiian bobtail squid to glow,
how they permit
pea aphids to subsist on nothing but
plant sap, and
how the wood rat has coopted them so it can digest otherwise toxic creosote.
It is a big family — containing more than 19,000
plants including all the
peas and beans, peanuts, clover and lupins — to see
how it was represented in the seed bank.
Associate Professor Mechthild Tegeder is interested in
how pea, soybean and other
plants acquire, distribute and use nitrogen, which is an essential nutrient to
plant growth and survival but also for production of seeds with high amounts of nutritional proteins.
Instructions for;
planting peas - science link Making a secret ink message - history link Trapping a wild thing - fiction Making jam sandwich - Dt link amd T4W unit
How to be king of Wild thing - English MANY opportunities to read around the genre to develop writer toolkit.
How to Grow Beans and
Peas:
Planting and Growing Organic Green Beans, Sugar Snap
Peas, and Heirloom Dry Beans and
Peas
His recent series of knot sculptures were inspired by observing
how different
plants - mainly morning glories,
peas and sweet
peas - tied themselves into knots and tangles enabling them to climb.