agri-environment schemes, functional group, grass margins, litter-feeders, predators, seed mix, soil disturbance, soil-feeders1. The establishment of grassy strips at the margins of arable fields is an agri-environment scheme that aims to provide resources for native flora and fauna and thus ...
farmland conservation practices (Vickeryet al.2009) found that field margins sown with a wildflower mix had higher arthropod diversities than adjacent crops, or margins sown with grass seed only. Several bird species were also found to use wildflower strips more than margins sown with grass seed ...
(<6 perennial species/quadrat in 2000, compared to 6-8 for other treatments). After 13 years, naturally regenerated plots tended to have fewer species than plots sown with a wildflower seed mix (9-12 species/plot in 2000), but this difference was not statistically significant. There was no...
The smell of coffee mingles with wet grass and sunscreen. We line up along the abundant field, bodies moving in sync, reaching close to the earth. Pulling handfuls of flax up from the soil, laying them on the cleared ground, spread evenly in rows, roots lined up for the processes to ...
The Vale Airfield is a 1300m grass runway running parallel to the Dasher River in NorthWest Tasmania. It is situated only a couple of nautical miles from a beautiful mountain, Mount Roland. This 4000ft granite beast dominates the local view all the way to the nearby town of Sheffield. It...
Short Meadow – We love short meadows and even created a product called MeadowBox. A short meadow gets to a height of about 2′. It is made up of a short grass like prairie dropseed or bluestem (60-70%) mixed in with groups of flowering perennials that bloom throughout the year (30...
Twenty wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes were grown in pots (15 cm in diameter × 15 cm in height) which contained 2 kg of University of California potting mix with complete plant nutrients. One pre-germinated seed per pot was grown in a growth room with 15/10°C (day/night...
But it was also a late-night teenager hangout who realized its potential as nice place to smoke grass and drink beer – they called it Stoner Park. You really can’t blame ’em, right? During this time It really wasn’t being well kept and over the decades it started becoming overgrown...
I understand it's customary to pelletize a whole guild of seeds, so I wonder if the cheap birdseed mix would be appropriate as-is. "the qualities of these bacteria, like the heat of the sun, electricity, or the qualities of metals, are part of the storehouse of knowledge of all men...
In addition to this, when breeding for types eaten as immature seed, quality testing adds considerable complexity to the relevant programs. There is consequently a major requirement for species-specific molecular genetic markers and derived linkage maps for field pea and faba bean, to enable ...