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When you have a set amount of money, a limited plot of land, and particular plant requirements, it’s time to plant your acre of roses. … Read more

When planning your moringa farm, understand this: The amount of seedlings you plant is not necessarily equal to number who will live long enough to … Read more

On the ground, all those concrete posts and tidy rows makes dragon fruit farming seem like child’s play. But that ordered surface conceals a complex … Read more

Planting cocoa are less about throwing seeds at the ground and more about engineering a living system; you’re planning an orchard. You’re creating a system … Read more

Sowing peppers sounds straightforward enough… Just dig a hole and drop in a seedling (but when you’re planting acres of them), things get complicated fast. … Read more

Treating lettuce like it appears magically in the soil is one way to wind up with bitter, bolted leaves. You might start out with high … Read more

When you start growing corn, it’s a matter of making your seed selection: the hybrid decision. Then after you prepare your soil and test for … Read more

A peanut plant doesn’t behave like a soybean or corn plant. It grows horizontally by pushing its peg into the ground to set pods below … Read more

A successful crop, or one that falls short, starts with plant stands: How many rice plants is there alive in the ground? What happens when … Read more

How many seed packets do I need to purchase? It sounds like such a straightforward question: You stare at the blank spot on your map … Read more

You can’t harvest hope; you can only be precise with wheat. You can drill it perfectly uniform across a field, and yet still go home … Read more