monoculture
The agricultural practice of planting a field or other land mass with a single crop, all of the same age, like wheat or pine trees. Single crop planting often leads to increased infestation by disease or insects.
monoculture
Growing a single species of plant over a wide area. Typically, farms are referred to as being monocultures.
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Monoculture Growing only one particular type of plant.
Monoecious A species with unisexual flowers, having both sexes on the same plant.
Monopodial Continuing growth from a terminal bud each year.
Have a mixed-grass lawn rather than a monoculture. Choose the right type of lawn grasses for your area. Use an electric or human-powered mower.
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.
The productivity of that biologically barren monoculture of GM corn is an illusion, dependent on manufactured inputs of fertilizer, chemicals, and unnatural seeds for survival.
The devastation of the Dust Bowl or the Irish Potato Famine can both be linked to one crucial farming mistake: monoculture. Monoculture in farming is the growing of a single crop on the same piece of land season after season.
Bred for uniform traits, agricultural monocultures become vulnerable to disease and pests. Examples include the 1970 loss of $1 billion worth of crops in the U.S.
As we work together to replace the monoculture of lawn with the polyculture of multiple use plants, we are turning our private yards into stamps of a shared ecosystem. Permaculture extends beyond what we do as private individuals on private land.
" James also suggests that a mix of weeds in the landscape is actually more attractive because it creates a look of a meadow rather than a monoculture of nothing but turf.
Single cultivar bluegrass lawns are not recommended This genetically uniform monoculture lends itself to a big risk of insect and disease damage.
...We're reducing our lawn (useless monoculture) and expanding our beds, trying to incorporate native plants, although I do not think this IS a native, but at least it's not invasive). This looks appealing to me. More
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Create a mosaic of trees, shrubs, ground covers, native grasses and wildflowers. Monocultures, which are the same species of plant used en-mass, ...
Once it gets established, it tends to become a monoculture, a bit like bamboo with its creeping rhizomes. The risk is that once it's established, it prevents other vegetation growing and becomes a bigger clump.
This not only leads to an excessive waste of gas and unnecessary pollution, it means we have to dump chemicals onto our lawns (and eventually our water supply) to weed and feed this unnatural monoculture we find so attractive, yet make no use of.
 See also: Plant, Flower, Growing, Soil, Grow
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