How To Plant Sweet Potatoes

Sweet Potato
(Sweet Potato (Ingg.), Ipomoea batatas (Latin)) Family: Convolvulaceae

Widely planted in South America before the Incan culture, introduced into Spain before the potato. In East Asia, Polynesia before the year 1250 AD spread to New Zealand 14th century, spread to China in 1594 AD

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How To Grow Carrots

Carrot is a vegetable  that is well known Indonesian society and popular as a source of vit. A because it had higher levels of carotene (provitamin A). In addition, carrots also contain vit. B, vit. C, slightly vit. G, as well as other substances that are beneficial to human health. The figure in the form of grass and plants store food reserves in the tuber. Have short stems, roots Riding the form and function become rounded and elongated tubers. Bulbs reddish yellow, thin skinned, and if eaten raw was crunchy and slightly sweet.

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PERFOMANCE OF BIOPHISIC CHARACTERS OF SOME RICE MUTANTS RE-SISTANT TO BROWN PLANTHOPPER

Mutant lines of A-227-5, Atomita-l, Mg-2 and Mg-8, and varieties of IR-26, Pelita I-I, Seratus Malam, Mudgo, TN-I and IR-36 were planted in 4 Kg of soilin the one gallon of plastic pot and were fertilized by 8 g of Urea and 4 g of TSP. Six and nine weeks after transplantation, sheaths of the second leave from each plant were cutted at the middle part with 28 - 30 J.I. of thickness by using frozen cut crossing and used as microscopic preparats.

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Pachypodium, Desert Plants

Make no mistake, this is not a cactus plant. Although both include desert plants, the plants are still one family with this Adenium has its own privileges. Besides prickly, this was tuberous plants. At first glance looks like a cactus because of thorny stems. No wonder if sometimes people are wrong, consider this cactus plant. But if you see the cob, similar right with Adenium. No wonder, because with Adenium Pachypodium is one family, the Apocynaceae. Another family is Plumeria, Nerium, and Allamanda.

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Benefits of Ornamental Plants In Home

Ornamental plants not only beautify the home, but also can clean tosin and organic chemicals cause asthma and other diseases. In addition, it can be proven to reduce stress and improve mental wellbeing. Here are the best plants for inside the house by BC Wolverton in his book How to Grow Fres Water. 50 houseplants That Purify Your Home or Office.
Christmas castus
Different from most plants that produce oxygen during the day, these plants to produce oxygen at night making it suitable for bedrooms, living rooms or other areas in the house that has a lot of activity at night.

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