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A weed is an unwanted plant.
The notion of "wanted" is of
course entirely in the eye
of the beholder. A weed in
one situation might be a
wildflower in another. In
order to reduce weed growth,
many weed control strategies
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Square foot gardening
Square Foot Gardening is a
type of intensive gardening
based on the idea that the
wide rows in conventional
home gardening are a waste
of time and space, and that
more quality vegetables can
be grown in less space with
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Transgenic plants
Transgenic plants are plants
that have been genetically
engineered, a breeding
approach that uses
recombinant DNA techniques
to create plants with new
characteristics.They are
identified as a class of
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Wildlife gardening
Wildlife gardening is a
school of gardening that is
aimed at creating an
environment that is
attractive to various forms
of wildlife such as birds,
amphibians, reptiles,
insects, mammals and so on.
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Conservation status
The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. Many factors are taken into account when ... > more -
Slash and burn
Slash and burn (a specific practice that may be part of shifting cultivation or swidden-fallow agriculture) is an agricultural procedure widely used in forested areas. Although it was practised ... > more -
Pitcher plant
Pitcher plants (or pitfall traps) are carnivorous plants whose prey-trapping mechanism features a deep cavity filled with liquid known as a pitfall trap. Foraging, flying or crawling insects such as ... > more -
Plant cell
There are three major classes of plant cells that can then differentiate to form the tissue structures of roots, stems, and leaves. (The three distinct types of plant cells are classified according ... > more -
Parthenocarpy
In botany and horticulture, parthenocarpy (literally meaning virgin fruit) is the natural or artificially induced production of fruit without fertilization of ovules. The fruit is therefore seedless. ... > more -
Heirloom plant
An heirloom plant is an open-pollinated cultivar that was commonly grown during earlier periods in human history, but which is not used in modern large-scale agriculture. Since most popular heirloom ... > more -
Weed control
Weed control, a botanical component of pest control, stops weeds from reaching a mature stage of growth when they could be harmful to domesticated plants, sometimes livestocks, by using manual ... > more
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