if you grow your own favorite salad ingredients, then you might want to consider a new planting pattern this year that lets you toss the salad when you plant it. The results will yield a healthier ...

Bali's famous rice terraces, when seen from above, look like colorful mosaics because some farmers plant synchronously, while others plant at different times. The resulting fractal patterns are rare ...

Patterns in when and how much plants grow have changed markedly over the past 30 years, scientists report March 2 in Nature Climate Change. Researchers looked at satellite data of vegetation on the ...

Lovejoy (Cascadia; The Garden in Bloom) differentiates the undeveloped style of natural, ecologically correct gardens (""more earnest than beautiful"") from the high art of naturalistic gardens (which ...

A Japanese plant species with a peculiar leaf pattern recently revealed unexpected insight into how almost all plants control their leaf arrangement. Leaves can be enjoyed for their shade, autumn ...

Field experiments were conducted in Punjab, India, in 2011 and 2012 to study the integrated effect of planting pattern [uniform rows (20-cm spacing) and paired rows (15-, 25-, and 15-cm spacing)], ...

Cocoa farmers in Ghana are testing new ways of growing their crops as shifting weather patterns take a toll on yields. Among them is Samuel Davor, a cocoa farmer in Sefwi Wiawso, a village in a forest ...

Bali's famous rice terraces, when seen from above, look like colorful mosaics because some farmers plant synchronously, while others plant at different times. The resulting fractal patterns are rare ...