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  1. Understanding the Production of the Major Tropical/Subtropical Root Crops: Cassava, Potatoes, Sweet potatoes, Yams, and Cocoyams

    Dr. Nail H. Ozerol Root crops is a general term commonly used for a wide variety of food plants that have an underground storage organ known as a root, tuber (rhizome), corm, or bulb. Root crops are rich in starch, and low in protein and oil. They are excellent sources of calories. Some are consumed as major...
    633.4 OZE

  2. Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners

    Suzanne Ashworth Seed to Seed is a complete seed-saving guide that describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. This book contains detailed information about each vegetable, including its botanical classification, flower structure and means of pollination, required population...
    635.042 ASH | PG.002, PG.011, PG.012

  3. Guide for Field Crops in the Tropics and the Subtropics

    Agency for International Development & Samuel C. Litzenberger In the tropical and subtropical areas of the world, food grains make up the bulk of the diet for most people. Food grains together with fiber and specialty crops are also principal cash producers. It is with these commodities that this Guide for Field Crops in the Tropics and Subtropics concerns...
    633.009 LIT

  4. Food from Dryland Gardens

    David Cleveland & Daniela Soleri Food from Dryland Gardens encourages gardens that serve local needs, that are based on local knowledge, and that conserve natural resources and the biological diversity of traditional crops. It was written for field workers, extension agents, students, project workers, and program planners. Both...
    635.043 CLE | PD.043

  5. Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture @ Second Edition

    Toby Hemenway Second Edition The first edition of Gaia's Garden, sparked the imagination of Americas home gardeners, introducing permacultures central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition...
    635.048 HEM

  6. Edible Leaves of the Tropics ; 3rd ed.

    Franklin W. Martin, Ruth M. Ruberte, Laura S. Meitzner Third Edition [library also has 2 copies of the 1975edition] People interested in tropical gardening or botany will find this an indispensable guide to several hundred species of plants with edible leaves. Leaves can provide high-quality food, and in the tropics, many are from perennials...
    581.632 MAR | PD.004, PD.015

  7. Fruits of Warm Climates

    Julia Frances Morton This 505 page book is an exceptionally exhaustive source of information on tropical and subtropical fruits. It is a well-illustrated and very readable, practical guide for those interested in growing tropical and subtropical fruits either for the home garden or commercially. The fruits are...
    634.091 MOR | PI.006

  8. The Storage and Handling of Onions

    Tropical Products Institute The Storage and Handling of Onions provides information on harvesting, field handling, drying, storage, cultivars, sprout suppression, packing and diseases of onions. Produced by the Tropical Products Institute, a British Government organisation.
    635.952 TRO

  9. ECHO Variety Trials

    TIm Motis, PhD ; Berkalaar, Edward ; Pendergrass, Krista ; et al. includes TrialDesign Protocol & Writing Report Guideline Bush Bean 2006 Cabbage 2003 Carrot 2007 Clover 2010 Cucumber 1988 Germination 2010 Katuk 2011 Lettuce 2011 Luffa 2005 Okra 2003 Onion 2002-2003 Moringa 2001 Nematode 2001 Natural Pest Control 2002 Pepper 2007 Pumpkin 2002 Quinoa 2006...
    630.7 ECH

  10. Compendium of Onion and Garlic Diseases

    Howard F. Schwartz et al The purpose of this compendium is to provide a comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date account of onion and garlic diseases. It is international in scope and practical in emphasis. It is designed to assist inthe diagnosis of onion and garlic disease in the field and the laboratory and to...
    635.269 SCH