Growing Food: A Guide to Food Production

Variety/Cultivar 38
Vector 57, 86 , 87, 109, 124, 163
Vegetables221–243
Vegetative reproduction 40–41
Vermifuge/Anthelmintic 229
Vernalisation 59 , 133, 134, 144
Vetch/Grass Pea/Chickling Pea
Lathyrus sativus186–188
Virus diseases 86–87
Vitamin C 112, 157, 204, 209, 212,
217, 218, 223, 232, 238 , 253, 256,
257, 262, 264
Vitaceae (Grape family) 244
Volunteer plants 45 , 69, 80, 87, 210

Water rights 94
Water table 11, 12, 15

Weaver bird Quelea137, 138

Weeds 88–92

WheatTriticum aestivum 4, 21, 33,

53, 105, 107, 126, 133, 143–149,

193

Wild Rice Zizania aquatica 128, 221,

267, 290

Wilting 39

Windbreak 11

Windrow 73

Winged Bean (Four-angled Bean)

Psophocarpus tetragonolobus

284–287

Winged Pea/Asparagus PeaLotus

tetragonolobus 284

Winter varieties 59

Witchweed—see Striga

Yam Dioscorea spp. 217–220

Yield 76

Zinc 24, 26, 27

Tung/Mu-Tree/Noix d’abrasin

Aleurites montana 189

Turgidity 9

UllucoUllucus tuberosus 204

Umbelliferae (Carrot family) 221, 226

Underexploited Crops 266–287

WatermelonCitrullus lanatus 243,

264–266

INDEX 333