Sentences with phrase «in edible crop»

Partly, this is because a field planted entirely in edible crops lets one feed far more mouths than a forest with scattered edible plants.

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A cereal crop primarily grown for its edible seeds, quinoa is a highly popular food source in America, Canada, China, and Europe.

A cereal crop primarily grown for its edible seeds, quinoa is a highly popular food source in America, Canada, China, and Europe.

Edible grains comprise the majority of global cultivated crops and provide the greatest percentage of consumed calories worldwide, in the form of corn, rice, wild rice, wheat, barley, rye, kamut, spelt, millet, oats, triticale, buckwheat, quinoa, teff, and amaranth.

Lentils and other legumes grown in hothouses with 700 ppm CO2 improved their total biomass by 91 %, their edible parts yield by 150 % and their fodder yield by 67 %, compared to similar crops grown at 370 ppm carbon dioxide, Indian researchers found.

Companion planting, or grouping complementary plants together in the garden to benefit each other, can be done for a variety of reasons, such as to provide shade or a wind barrier to other plants, or to cover the surface of the soil with edible plants to crowd out weeds, or even to help boost the growth, flavor, or yields of food crops.

And it looks like they create an edible crop in the process too.

Perennial herbs, grasses and shrubs are somewhat better, and trees in a diverse forest or more savannah - like edible forest garden, with trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and ground covers (all of which can provide food and materials as well as benefit each other) ** are even better at preserving soil moisture while also encouraging diverse wildlife and providing high yields of multiple food crops, lumber and other materials.

In fact, tests by Norman Arancon of the University of Hawaii suggest that application of vermicompost showed significant and repeatable suppression of pythium, verticillium wilt, rhizoctonia solani, powdery mildew, plant parasitic nematodes, cabbage white caterpillars, cucumber beetles, tomato hornworms, mealy bugs, aphids and two - spotted spider mites» damage to a broad range of edible crops.

Potatoes are one of the easiest edibles to grow in the garden, and by growing them in buckets you can harvest a potato crop just in even the smallest urban garden.