Young Trees Articles
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Irrigation Systems Used on Avocados
Avocado is an evergreen tree in the tropical areas of Mexico and Central America. In recent years there has been an increase in cultivated areas, with Mexico as the main country of production, while in Greece there is an increasing dynamic of cultivation in Crete, and generally in the citrus cultivation zones. Avocado is divided into 3 botanical types. The Mexican type that is the most resistant ...
By Palaplast
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Blueberry Harvest - Videorelation From a Blueberry Plantation
The fruit harvesting season is long over. Maybe are you following our Facebook profile and YouTube channel? Therefore, you have probably seen a harvest of blueberries, raspberries, or haskap with the KAREN harvester. In this article, you will learn more about the blueberry harvester and see how it has worked this ...
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Happy TuBishvat from Tal-Ya
Happy TuBishvar for all the trees in Israel and in the world. Tu-Bishvat is the Jewish holiday where we are celebrating nature growth and thanksgiving. With Tal-Ya platform, the forest’s young trees, which are left to survive in the arid climatic conditions, have a substantial better chance to survive due to the surrounding support the platform provides to the tree – mitigation of ...
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Landscaping Ideas With Stone Mulch
Landscape work takes a lot of effort and involves a lot of cost. Often, people are confused whether to use stone mulch in landscaping or use organic material. There are pros and cons to both approaches, and the decision will depend on the kinds of plants you have in the garden and the climate in which they are growing. Organic mulch is cheaper than stone mulching but it does not last very long, ...
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Landscape trees benefit from potassium-based superabsorbent polymer-amended backfill soil
Weiner (1975) put it aptly when he stated that “However rewarding the act of tree planting may be, watching a young tree slowly die can be spiritually defeating.” Landscape plants, noted Richard Harris (1983) in his well-known “Arboriculture” book, “probably suffer more from moisture-related problems than from any other cause.” The success of tree planting ...
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Effect of recycled water applied by surface and subsurface irrigation on the growth, photosynthetic indices and nutrient content of young olive trees in central Iran
Water shortage has encouraged the quest for alternative sources of water for food production and agricultural development. Recycled water (RW) is one of the most available water resources with great potential for use in farm irrigation. This experiment was carried out to investigate the use of RW as the irrigation source and its application method, subsurface leaky irrigation (SLI) system or ...
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Saving Morocco’s endangered Barbary macaques
Morocco’s Barbary macaque shouldn’t be endangered — the small primates native to North Africa reproduce well, consume a diverse omnivorous diet and can survive cold snowy winters that turn into blistering hot summers. And yet, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, this hearty and flexible monkey is on the endangered species list. ...
By Ensia
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Is Tree Plantation Sustainable?
According to, say oxford dictionary, Sustainability is that capacity or ability of something that enables it to maintain itself. It includes taking some initiative today that might have long-term benefit. If something you are doing is said to be “sustainable”, it should have the ability to continue forever. So is tree plantation sustainable? Living sustainability refers to us, the ...
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Mangrove-mud coasts; a muddy story
If you ever visit a mangrove-mud coast, you will see that the mangroves grow more or less between the waterlines at mean high water and the waterline at the highest tidal level occurring in a year. Understanding the relation between tides and mangroves is therefore essential to rehabilitation efforts. Understanding tides The moon and the sun rule the tide. Because the moon circles around the ...
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RMDF Case Study - Compost Mulch a Plum Choice
ReMaDe Kent and Medway is managing a series of WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme) funded trials on top fruit and other horticultural crops in Kent, the ‘Garden of England’, in order to develop the market for compost as a soil improver, and in this trial, as a mulch for young fruit trees. Twelve farms are taking part in the trials growing a wide range of crops, including ...
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Trees, bees and UBCs
Tonnes of aluminium cans and foil recycled in the UK are being turned into new trees to provide food, medicines and income for the people of Burkina Faso in West Africa - one of the poorest countries in the world. This article explains the workings of an innovative collaboration. A30-year-old subsistence farmer and mother of five stands proudly next to a sapling in the stifling heat of an ...
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Nitrogen mineralization from eucalyptus yardwaste mulch applied to young avocado trees
Consistent use of mulches over several years can provide significant N to avocado. Study of a 3-year-old Ventura, California, avocado orchard mulched annually for 3 years with 12–14 Mg ha–1 chipped eucalyptus showed that total N in the mulched soil was double that of the control. Mulched intact soil cores released 53 kg ha–1 more N annually than control treatments. A litterbag study showed that ...
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