William Campbell, curator of Kew, pioneered a new process for growing potatoes more economically. Traditionally, whole seed potatoes were planted into the ground to produce a crop, but Campbell’s new system divided a whole seed potato into slices. Sections containing an ‘eye’ were placed into...
This Farm machine for Planting Potatoes Potato Planter is full mounted with four-wheel tractor. It combines ditch, manure, sowing, casing soil, complete fertilizing and sowing simultaneously. This potato planter has the compact structure, better motility, ...
This Farm machine for Planting Potatoes Potato Planter is full mounted with four-wheel tractor. It combines ditch, manure, sowing, casing soil, complete fertilizing and sowing simultaneously. This potato planter has the compact structure, better motility...
In soybeans, Mexican bean beetles can be controlled using a trap crop of snap beans [26]. Similarly, for over 50 years in Belorussia early-planted potato trap crops have been used to protect later plantings of potatoes from Colorado potato beetle attack [27]. Even though many...
Don’t store onions with apples or pears, as the ethylene gas produced by the fruits will interrupt the onions’ dormancy. Onions may also spoil the flavor of these fruits (as well as potatoes). A pungent onion will store longer than a sweet onion. Sweet onions have a high water content...
Potatoes are believed to have originated in the highlands of the Andes in western South America. In fact, researchers believe people started growing potatoes in that region as early as 8,000 to 5,000 BC. Friends: Potato companion plants include beans, cabbage, peas, and corn. Marigolds plante...
While cross-categorising, consumers can switch between taxonomies (i.e., based on intrinsic properties, e.g., food → potato → French fries) and goals (i.e., scripts based on situations in which a food is eaten, e.g., potatoes for different meals; Blake et al., 2007; Ross and ...
When bush beans are planted with potatoes, they will protect them from the Colorado potato beetle, one of the most destructive bugs that attack potatoes. This is a mutually beneficial relationship, as the potato in turn protects the beans from the Mexican bean beetle. ...
Sugar cane is typically grown after rice, cotton, maize, wheat, and other crops in two to three years. Intercropping is also popular among farmers who choose to generate more income. Opt for growing onions, potatoes, or coriander alongside sugar cane....
Biotech-based control of the fungal disease late-blight, the most important disease of potatoes in the world, is already being field-tested in Bangladesh, India and Indonesia. Late-blight caused the 1845 Irish famine, which resulted in 1 million deaths. Biotech control of virus diseases and the...