Horticulture, Fruit and Agroforestry: notes

Vegetables

• Nursery: seeds are sown in a seedbed, then seedlings are transplanted. Tomatoes, onions and cabbages are raised this way.
• Hardening off: giving seedlings less water and more sun before transplanting.
• Direct sowing: carrots and rape are sown where they will grow.

Fruit Trees

• Propagation: by seed, cuttings, layering or grafting. Grafting joins a scion to a rootstock.
• Pruning: removes dead and crowded branches to shape the tree and improve fruiting.

Agroforestry

• Agroforestry: growing trees with crops or animals.
• Benefits: shade, firewood, fodder, windbreaks and nitrogen fixing by tree legumes.