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| perfect and imperfect flowers on each plant |
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| attacks, kills, feeds on host |
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| lay eggs within prey, larvae feeds and kills |
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| lives in host but doesnt kill |
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| feed on aphids and other soft bodied insects |
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| converts sunlight into carb |
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| converts carbs into energy- mostly at night |
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how a plant breathes
*stomates- plants breathe and exhale through these |
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| 1. sand, 2. silt, 3. clay, 4. organic matter |
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| slay, organic matter and some silt pick up positively charged nutrients (cat-ions), adsorbes them |
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measurement of H+ ions, lower pH, more H+ ions
low pH bad, causes aluminum toxicity, add lime |
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| take 20 1-tbs samples, 6-8" deep, mix in a bucket, place in box and take to soil lab $7, good for 3 years |
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| decayed plants, animals and microorganisms |
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high in nutrients N, Ca, Mg, "fertilizer"
-increases water-holding capacity
-more FRIABLE (easily crumbled)
- decreases soil compaction |
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a) brown material, limbs, leaves, woody plant material
b) green material, grass clilppings, succulent, tomato vines, lush
1:1 brown and green
cup of 13-13-13 and water
turn every 4-6 weeks
*do not add dog maneur, human waste or meat |
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| mustard family from Europe |
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| cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, collards, kale, kohlrabi, *withstand cost weather and frost |
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| mustard oil found in cole crops |
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| soil pH that isnt 5.8-6.5 |
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| irish potato (4.8-5.4), melon and eggplant (6-6.5) |
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| deprive plant of water, put out in the cold, let the wind blow around, then bring back in- kicks a hardening gene |
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| all P, 1/2 N, 1/2 K at planting, later (6 weeks) 1/2 N + 1/2 k |
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| most serious brassica disease |
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| BLACK ROT- yellow, v shaped lesion, goes inward- *use certified seed |
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| bottom rot- infected plant may be twisted or bent, but not broken, FUNGICIDE |
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| severe if left untreated, small dark spot with rings, copper spray |
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| brown powder, cool and wet, copper spray |
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| diamondback both caterpillar- spray w/ insecticide |
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| irish potatoes originated in |
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| turnips are planted at what distance |
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| fertilizer distributed for turnip |
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| harvesting turnips- time and how |
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| 45-60 days, crop 8-10" and leave 2", pull out whole plant later |
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| potato tuber formation how many days after planting |
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| seeding potato- size of tubor |
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| potato seed: thumb rule of depth |
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| where do you plant potato seeds |
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| don't overfertilize potato with what? |
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| worst disease for potato- potato famine |
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| green lacewing larvae- alligator friend |
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| generalist predator- feed on aphids |
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| generalist predator- feed on beneficial and pests |
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| predaceous on wide variety of small to medium sized insects including caterpillars, leafhoppers and aphids |
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| no web- hunter, control pests |
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| do not build webs but move and hunt |
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| control spider mite, popular with greenhouse growers |
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| feed on wide variety of prey |
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| aphids- preys on tobacco and tomato hornworm, female lays egg in aphid when egg hatches larve feeds on aphids insides |
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| beneficial, act as parasite, female injects egg in the host |
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large, blocky, blunt- reds have more vitamin c and a
reds- expensive |
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| released after eating hot food, might add to feeling of pleaseure |
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| beneficial, act as parasite, female injects egg in the host |
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large, blocky, blunt- reds have more vitamin c and a
reds- expensive |
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| hotness in peppers, affects mucus membrane- in plancental tissue that holds the seed- DAIRY HELPS |
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| human subjects taste a pepper |
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1- reduce h20, wilt
2- place outside
3- withhold fertilizer during final 2 weeks of transplant production
*hardy gene activated |
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| all p and k at planting, 1/2 n, sidedress N when vines begin to run |
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| till soil, wet soil, lay clear plastic 4-6 weeks- aug-sept, kills insects and other shit |
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| worst physiological problem for peppers |
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| BER- blossom end rot- ca deficiency |
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| direct sunlight and high temps |
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| most serious disease for pepper |
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| tomato spotted wilt virus |
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| affects tomato and pepper *transmitted by thrips |
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| how to get rid of tomato spotted wilt virus |
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| aluminum foil under plant, resistant varities |
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| <10% showing tannish yellow, pink or red, on surface near blossom end- VINE RIPE |
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| day 77-86, night 60-68- 95 too hot, 50 too cold |
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| transplant date for tomato |
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| days to mature fruit for tomato |
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| transplant fertilizer tomato |
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| preplant all lime and p, 1/2 n and k, then sidedress 1/2 n and k when tomatoes begin to flower |
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| are tomatoes heavy medium or light feeders |
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| stalking and tying required |
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| every other plant- stake, then weave |
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pruning, getting rid of extra limbs
leave the sucker below the first flower, but get rid of all the others |
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| stem end- radiating out from center of tomato- most common on ripening fruit |
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| a ring on the tomato green |
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| outer wall in normal but tomato is hollow inside- one of the loclear cavities is empty, high N, low light- N:K out of balance |
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| cool weather at blossom time causes fruit to pucker and have deep crevices |
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| Tomato Spottted wilt virus is vectored by |
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| MOST COMMON DISEASE OF TOMATo |
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| corn ear worm- tomato fruitworm BT |
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| natural pyrethrum- chrysanthemum |
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| what weather to spidermites like? and how to you control them |
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| aphids- dont need to treat usually bc they usually do what? |
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| pick them off- they only feed on foliage |
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| how can you tell if a green tomato is mature? |
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| cut crosswise and if the knife doesnt cut any seeds its mature |
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| where should you never store tomatoes? |
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| mechanical weed controlling |
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| primary tillage, mulching, hand pulling and hoeing |
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| planting dates, only irrigate within the row, growing techniques that don't favor weeds |
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| what type of herbicide is best |
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| preemergent because it controls as seeds germinate |
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| eggplant cannot handle what? |
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| when is eggplant planted? |
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| how often should solanaceae be rotated? |
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| all p+k 1/2 n at planting, 1/2 n at fruit set |
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| eggplant moderate heavy or light feeder? |
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| eggplant planting distance |
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| how often do you harvest eggplant? |
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| every other day- delayed harvest cuases them to be corky |
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| phomopsis blight- spread by splashing water |
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| rotation, soil solarization |
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| storage temp and humidity of eggplant |
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| 54 degrees, 90-95 humidity |
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| chemical used to kill, prevent or control a pest |
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| before controlling a pest, what should you do? |
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| IPM (integrated pest management) |
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| single plan with combination of tactics (natural and applied controls) |
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| wild types of lima beans high in poison- dont eat them raw |
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| all p + k and 1/2 n at planting, sidedress w/ 1/2 n at bloom- moderate feeder |
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| days to harvest lima beans |
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bush: 60-70
pole: 80
butterpea (dixie buterpea) |
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| planting date of lima bean |
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| whats a big deal to control with lima beans? |
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| major disease for lima beans |
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| microscopic worms that invade roots |
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| not the biggest but a major disease of lima beans |
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| main insect of lima beans |
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| when to harvest lima beans |
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| most flowers on cucurbits are |
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| cucurbits cold damage temp |
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| oblong watermelon with dark stripes (4th of july) |
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| small and round watermelon <10 lbs |
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| seedless- double # normal chromsome cross w/ normal, produces little pollen so must plant pollenizer |
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| planting dates watermelon |
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| maturity watermelon (days) |
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| 7 visits required, bottleneck is a result of poor pollination |
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| all pk, 1/2n, 1/2 when vines begin to run |
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| when to harvest watermelon |
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| tendril dries out, thumping sound, yellow belly |
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| squash are monecious so they must be pollenated by _____ and have insecticide on at ______ |
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| viruses- NEED TO CONTROL APHIDS |
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pickleworm (love squash)
squash wine borer(frass extrudes from stem)- VERY damaging
squash bug- feed on cucurbits- toxic saliva |
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| melon is moderate, heavy, or light feeder |
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| whats the worst problem of melons |
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| occurs when melons are mature, rotation and turning help |
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| bacterial wilt diagnostic test |
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| put a stem in a glass of water, white threads oozing means you have it |
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| soil test sample, put in a plastic bag and ship to a soil testing lab |
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| mosaic virus complex- aphids |
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| cucumber beetles pass ______ to cucurbits |
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| pickleworms love _____ and _____ |
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| after picking melons its good to give them |
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| an icewater bath to get rid of "field heat" |
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| all female flowers *cucumber? |
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| predominantly female hybrids, few male flowers |
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| cucumbers like what temps |
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| how often do you rotate cucurbits |
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| cucumber days to maturity |
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| cucumer beetles, pickelworm, aphid-- pickleworm leaves an exit hole |
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standard sweet
sugar content |
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| 2x more sugar than field corn |
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| 2x more sugar than standard sweet |
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| 2x more sugar than sugary enhanced w/ 10day storage |
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| corn heavy light or moderate feeder |
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| normal and sidedress when plants are 1 ft tall |
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| mature corn does what when punctured (and what does silk look like) |
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| exude milk liquid- dried out |
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| what should you do after you pick corn |
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| large fleshy irregular fungus on leaves, stem, ears and tassels- most common disease of sweet corn- delicacy some places |
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| #1 insect problem of corn |
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| corn ear worm- not a big deal for a home gardener |
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| cant stand cold, lots of nematodes so rotate |
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fusarium wilt, control nematodes
blossom blight most common |
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| grows back when you cut it (okra) |
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soak in water for 8 hours first
moderate |
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| sweet potato light moderate or heavy feeder |
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| puting sweet potatoes on skirt or whatever |
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| beans have ________ flowers |
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| black eyed, crowder, cow peas, or just peas |
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| bacteria that nitrogen fixes for beans |
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| crowder (crowds all others out) |
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| southern pea susceptible to |
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