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Drip irrigation or trickle irrigation is a type of micro-irrigation system that has the potential to save water and nutrients by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of plants, either from above the soil surface or buried below the surface. The goal is to place water directly into the root zone and minimize evaporation.
Irrigation (also referred to as watering of plants) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns. Irrigation has been a key aspect of agriculture for over 5,000 years and has been developed by many cultures around the world.
Plant growth and the plant cell from Kimball's Biology Pages; Botanical Society of America: What is Botany? Science & Plants for Schools; Teaching Documents about Botany Teaching documents, lecture; Why study Plants? Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge; Flora and other plant catalogs or databases. The Virtual Library of Botany
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A satellite image of circular fields characteristic of center pivot irrigation, Kansas Farmland with circular pivot irrigation. Center-pivot irrigation (sometimes called central pivot irrigation), also called water-wheel and circle irrigation, is a method of crop irrigation in which equipment rotates around a pivot and crops are watered with sprinklers.
Sub-irrigated planter Diagram of a Two-liter bottle recycled into a sub-irrigated planter. Sub-irrigated planter (SIP) is a generic name for a special type of planting box used in container gardening and commercial landscaping.
Fruits – part of a flowering plant that derives from specific tissues of the flower, mainly one or more ovaries. Legumes – plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or a fruit of these specific plants. A legume fruit is a simple dry fruit that develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces (opens along a seam) on two sides.