Biodiversity: The Key to Healthy Gardens
By Ruth Ann hales, Colorado State University Cooperative Extension agent, horticulture
The healthiest landscapes are those with the greatest variety of plants.
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biodiversity
The totality of genes, species, and ecosystems in a specified area, or the entire world.
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Biodiversity-One word made from the two words biological and diversity, referring to the many types of plants and animals that live in a region. The more species, the greater the biodiversity.
Biodiversity - In short, what all this interplanting is leading to is a very old gardening concept of biodiversity or planting a wide variety of things rather than a single, monocrop.
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Biodiversity is the key to a healthy organic garden. Biodiversity means the presence of a diverse collection of plants and animals.
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As in nature, companion planting creates biodiversity, avoiding the susceptibility of monoculture to both pests and disease. In its simplest application, just two crops are grown together.
There are predators of cabbage white caterpillars so if your garden has good biodiversity there are several types of parasitic wasps, as well as birds, ground beetles and hoverfly larvae that will help you out.
Seasonal rhythms, the region's elevation, rainfall, soil conditions, fauna, and the history of traditional medicine all contribute to an expression of biodiversity that deserves to be protected.
Q: How does saving seed promote sustainability and biodiversity?
A: Commercial seed sales are determined by ever-changing market forces, which is why so many plant varieties have been lost over the years.
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Indigenous plants also offer a healthy biodiversity to your garden, providing plants that attract local wildlife. As development expands, we encroach on the natural landscape.
Traditionally, coffee was grown under a canopy of shade trees, providing critical wintering habitat crucial to many species of migratory birds and preserving the rich biodiversity inherent in tropical rainforests.
Biodiversity-the variation of plant and animal life that naturally occurs in ecosystems. Biodiversity is used to measure the health of an ecosystem, the higher the biodiversity the healthier the ecosystem.
Using heirloom seeds can helps maintain biodiversity in the face of ever-increasing limitations of genetically engineered, controlled plants and flowers.
'Last summer we had a student researching insect biodiversity on our green roof test plots who found more than 200 species of insect-including one for which this was only the second record of occurrence in the province,' explains Lundholm.
Fourth, there's an important biological component to heirloom gardening, and its buzzword is biodiversity.
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As a natural system, McDonald Woods is recovering its health and biodiversity. Volunteers can become involved in habitat preservation by contacting the Chicago Botanic Garden or other conservation organizations such as Chicago Wilderness.
Native plants also play a valuable role in preserving biodiversity and ecological balance. Since these plants evolved alongside native insects, birds and other creatures, they're often an important source of food and shelter.
Such differences are a reflection of biodiversity. Simply, plants native to areas with warm conditions produce seeds that germinate best in warm soil, while those native to cold places prefer cool soil.
It takes a minimum of three hours to tour the various gardens, which include a children's garden that offers special events and projects for families to work on at home. Agricultural biodiversity, ...
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