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When you’re planning out your planting schedule this year, keep in mind that the following plants usually grow better when their seeds are directly sown outdoors in spring: Cucurbits, including ...
Planting two or more non-competing crops may raise issues with soil-borne diseases and insects that only affect one type of plant. Depending on how close the interplanting varieties are, crop failure is a possibility. [5] Same crop, different maturity dates: Several varieties are selected, with different maturity dates: early, main season, late ...
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The Vivaldi potato is field immune to potato wart, and highly resistant to potato viruses A and Y. It is moderately resistant to leaf roll, potato virus X, late blight on tuber, silver scurf, blackleg and black dot, and is moderately susceptible to late blight on leaves, common scab, powdery scab, rhizoctonia and skin spot. [3]
Crop rotation systems may be enriched by other practices such as the addition of livestock and manure, [17] and by growing more than one crop at a time in a field. A monoculture is a crop grown by itself in a field. A polyculture involves two or more crops growing in the same place at the same time. Crop rotations can be applied to both ...
Sagittaria latifolia is a plant found in shallow wetlands and is sometimes known as broadleaf arrowhead, [5] duck-potato, [6] Indian potato, or wapato. This plant produces edible tubers that have traditionally been extensively used by Native Americans .
Companion planting of carrots and onions. The onion smell puts off carrot root fly, while the smell of carrots puts off onion fly. [1]Companion planting in gardening and agriculture is the planting of different crops in proximity for any of a number of different reasons, including weed suppression, pest control, pollination, providing habitat for beneficial insects, maximizing use of space ...
A Marfona is a potato cultivar with a moderately waxy texture. It originated in the Netherlands in 1975. [1] It has a light brown or yellow skin and a yellow to cream flesh, [2] and is a high yielding Second Early variety. [3] Due to the potato having a strong flavour it is very good for use as baking, boiling and mashing. [2]