Bamboo is a perennial grass. It is categorized under the same family of grass as wheat, rice and many other monocots. Bamboo is an evergreen plant in the true grass family with a few of its members growing as high as 100 feet tall. They are sometimes referred to as “bamboo trees” Bamboo is the fastest growing plant in the world. Their growth is clearly evident in some species which…
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Toddy | Sugar(Jaggery) Palmyra Palm Tree (Borassus flabellifer) growing on sand
Sand that you seen on the ocean and river beds are basically rocks which have eroded over time, weathered and pulverized over decades, some even millions of years old. Sand is also a type of soil. It is mostly found in the water bodies which carry them on to the banks or in deserts. So sand is rock and other rare minerals which are split into fine particles. It is…
World’s Biggest and Heaviest Tuber Vegetable: Food Security for the underprivileged
It’s a myth that organic farming yields less. To some extent it is correct, at least in Kerala. Kerala is blessed with bountiful rains, so normal vegetables like tomatoes, beans, chilies, onion etc barely survive, leave aside fruiting. However one thing that grows and yields well are tubers. Greater yams (Dioscorea alata) being one among them.In the past few decade’s various people have successfully harvested massive roots of yam, greater…
Why are Nursery Grown Plants and Trees Unhealthy?
Have you ever wondered why plants planted and nurtured on their own are healthy and yield well without pest attack and other problems? First let’s understand why nature-grown trees are healthier and yield well and live much longer. Nature-grown trees will have abundant green foliage and fruits. This can be witnessed in forests as well as naturally grown plants from seeds coupled with a few other factors. Healthy Plants will…
Effective Natural ways to Control and use weed
Seeds are sown by humans; weeds by God. As this saying shows, it really is difficult to compete with weeds while farming. De-weeding becomes a back breaking process without smart planning. Weeds will suck up most of the nutrients from the soil in any available form and some weeds will make their own by using soil, air microbes, sunlight and water as solvent. Weeds can also be beneficial for other…
How do DDT, Endosulfan and other pesticide react with Human Body?
Dr G Nammalvar once said in his TED talk and laughed,“Poisons are called medicine in local languages”(puchi marande– medicine for pest‘tamil’). Any word that ends in “cide” would be killing something. So chemicals which kill pest is known as pesticide, insect – insecticide, bacteria – bactericide, fungus – fungicide, rodent – rodenticide, spider – acaricide, herb – herbicide, weed – weedicide and suicide is self killing. Furadan is a granular…