The use of pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, etc. is at an all-time high, especially among large agriculture growers. Why? Modern agricultural practices involve growing single crop species in high-density plantings in hundreds of acres of fields at a time. Now if you were an insect, what does that kind of farming look like to [...]
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Cutting out Disease
When a plant is diseased or wounded, it is often easier to cut out and remove the diseased portion of the plant instead of messing with chemical controls. This is especially true if you are dealing with a fruit or vegetable plant, which you would like to harvest chemical-free food from later. When cutting out [...]
Disease-Free Plants
Plants don’t possess an immune system like we do. They don’t have antibodies or white blood cells that actively seek out and kill diseases that infect them. Plants fight their biological battles with chemistry. Plants manufacture chemicals that are toxic (called secondary metabolites) and move these chemicals throughout their systems in order to kill whatever [...]
Basic Distinction Between a Bacterial & Fungal Infection
Fungi are a more advanced creature then bacteria, thus fungi, in general, have more biologically advanced techniques for infection whereas bacteria tend to be more primitive. Consider an infection you may find on a leaf: does the infection spot cross over veins in the leaf and continue on the other side of the vein, or [...]
Pruning Fruit Trees
Getting the Right Kind of Sugar out of Your Tree The basic idea: Fruit trees manufacture two main types of sugars: cellulose or fructose. Cellulose is a structural sugar meaning that it is the woody portion of the plant, used simply to give the tree its ability to stand and hold itself up. Fructose is [...]
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