Growing Food: A Guide to Food Production

PLANTING Propagation: by seed; normally sown direct ie not transplanted. Soil: Bambara groundnuts tolerate very poor and sandy s ...

UTILISATION • mixed with oil or butter to make a kind of porridge, or roasted in oil; or green (immature), eaten fresh or boiled ...

The Buffalo Gourd is a member of the Cucurbitaceae family (the gourds, squashes and melons), and is a vigorous perennial that ca ...

LIMITATIONS Buffalo Gourd plants require long periods of warm dry weather for optimum in common with most other plant prote ...

• PLANTING Seed treatment: the seed has a covering (testa) which is hard, waxy and almost impermeable to water, so to ensure goo ...

Pests: rarely a problem. Seed Weevils attack young pods and eat the developing seed. Termites may attack young seedlings. Wild g ...

Lupin Lupinus species Lupins have great potential as a high protein source in temperate and cool subtropical regions, as food fo ...

Blue (Narrow-leaved) Lupin—L. angustifolius. Grown commercially in northern Europe, New Zealand, southeastern North America, Fra ...

Depth: 2.5 cm, or even less in retentive soils with plenty of moisture. Inoculation: recommended unless a well nodulated lupin c ...

Root Rots—several kinds can cause problems. Virus Diseases—there are also several, including BYMV (Bean Yellow Mosaic Virus), w ...

• problems. If beehives are placed in the lupin fields, pollination is usually greatly improved. Production of green matter, for ...

PLANTING Propagation: by seed, when soil temperature reaches about 70°C. Seed takes about 9 days to germinate. The flowers are t ...

UTILISATION • haricot bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) in many ways, though it is generally less palatable. In Uganda the seed is norma ...

have very many large root nodules, sometimes more than 1cm in diameter, which fix large quantities of Nitrogen. Although winged ...

Inoculation: winged beans are not normally inoculated as nodulation occurs naturally very readily, apparently with the Cowpea gr ...

UTILISATION Pods—the winged bean’s main use, they can be eaten raw, or sliced and boiled like haricot (French) beans, and used ...

SECTION 3 288 Seed Purchase Procedures 310 Conversion Tables and Statistics 313 This list of cultivated plant names is far from ...

Kodo(a) Millet, Ditch Millet, Scrobic Millet, Ricegrass Hegari—see2A, “Sorghum” Hungry RiceDigitaria exilis (D. iburua—white-see ...

B. LEGUMES Adzuki BeanVigna angularis (Phaseolus angularis). Atsuki, Azuki; Haricot Adzuki, Haricot à Feuilles Angulaires (Frenc ...

Souchet Comestible (French); Erdmandel (German), Chufa (Portuguese; Cebollín (Spanish), Juncia Avellanada (Spanish) Earth NutAra ...