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Growing Thistels from seeds
In article , Kay Easton
writes But what I was asking you is are you aware of any greater taxonomic confusion among the brassicas than among other plants (other, of course, than the problem of common names which have never attempted to mirror taxonomy and which may be used by different parts of the country to refer to different plants) They also vary from country to country. The point I have already made is that whatever the common name of a plant may be, or for that matter whatever its taxonomic name is, a gardener needs to know which plant family it belongs to in order to carry out correct crop rotations. A new system of classification could take the opportunity of making that a lot more clear than it presently is. Brassicas are more relevant in that respect because they collectively tend to take the highest proportion of area in an average vegetable plot, and they have the greatest number of varieties within their family compared to other vegetables. They are also susceptible to club root if grown too often in the same place or too intensively, and that horrible disease can take up to nine years to eradicate. -- Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs. |
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