Dishing up the Dirt
This is the average percentage of the soil component air.
What is 25%
This nutrient should be added all season to keep the plant growing vigorously and green.
What is N?
These are the 2 types of ingredients that you would add to compost.
What are browns and greens?
Dicots have this many cotyledons.
What is 2?
Garlic is planted in this season.
What is fall?
This is the smallest particle of soil.
What is Clay?
This amendment could be found in Homer and Seward and would provide N, K, Mg, Ca, Fe, Zn, Cu and Mn.
What is Kelp or Seaweed?
Would grass clippings be considered a N or C?
What is N?
This invasive species strangles trees and shrubs while fixing nitrogen and providing pretty purple flowers.
What is bird vetch?
The type of hydroponic system utilizing large European buckets.
What is dutch buckets
These things live in the rhizosphere, name one.
What is organisms, roots, bacteria, fungi
This amendment is considered vital in making plants strong especially in cell wall development.
What is Calcium?
This is a common amendment to increase organic matter and nutrients.
What is compost?
This form of propagation involves taking cuttings to create new plants with the same genetics and works well for mint.
What is tip cutting or cloning?
This is the preferred technique for propagating apples.
What is grafting?
Soil with a PH of 4 would have this nutrient most available.
What is Fe or Iron.
This amendment provides S and Ca and can also be used to make walls.
What is gypsum?
This system for making plant fertilizer originated in Fairbanks and involves brewing microbe rich soil with blended plant greens.
What is the Memetic Onetai technique?
In plant taxonomy the part of the specific latin name that is upper case.
What is Genus?
EC stands for.
What is electrical conductivity?
Soil with a high Cation Exchange Capacity would have high levels of one of these two components. Looking for 2 components
This lime provides Mg and Ca while lowering PH
What is Dolomitic Limestone?
This technique involves cutting a cover crop and leaving it on the field.
What is green manure?
This bi-annual has been promoted as best grown in AK because of it's sweetness.
What is the carrot?
Lettuce prefers to grow in this range of PH.
What is 6-7?