Testing Your Soil With Plants
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Fechado: marzo 2019
Autor: Samuel Nderitu
A short guide with instructions on how a farmer can analyse their soil by examining the plants growing in it, without the need for laboratory testing, which is expensive and inaccessible for many smallholder farmers.The document explains the advantages of this approach, and provides information on what various symptoms, observable in plants, might indicate about the health and fertility of soil.By Samuel Nderitu; GROW BIOINTENSIVE Agriculture Center Kenya Note: This resource was added to this database as part of a migration of resources from the now defunct CCRP Sphaera platform, and is still awaiting a comprehensive review and quality check.
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