11.17.09
The hand held magnifier 手上放大鏡
Nov. 16 Mon. Morning frost/Sun
十一月十六日 星期ㄧ 晨霜後晴
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The hand held magnifier is good for reading the fine print.
手上放大鏡看小字挺管用的.
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Wrap the prey
包裹獵獲
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The titbids of the farm-The root of the fava bean plant
Lots of fava bean seedlings were planted in the field.
The fava bean plants grew taller and taller. Little white flowers among the green leaves burst forth.
The flowers bloomed, and faded away.
Breeze from the field, fava bean leaves waved high.
The baby fave beans were as long as segments of the thumbs nodding with the leaves, nestling among them.
When they fully grown and ripened in the pod, everyone’s favorite, were sweet and good to eat.
After harvest, Nung-fu cleared the fava bean field, their roots were plowed out. It is rather special, the white root nodules of fava bean plants fix the nitrogen in the atmosphere to accumulate the quantity of nitrogen in the soil which is good to the plants.
Hardly any one knows that the roots of the fava bean plants do a great work in sober earnest underneath.
農場小故事-蠶豆根
田裡長了許多蠶豆苗.
蠶豆苗一天天長高, 綠葉中開出朵朵小白花.
花開了, 花謝了.
田野起風了. 蠶豆葉浪盛大. 一截一截姆指般長的幼蠶豆翻湧葉間, 若隱若現.
幼蠶豆長熟了. 豆莢裡面甜美好吃的蠶豆, 人人喜愛.
蠶豆收成後, 農夫耕犁整地, 埋在土中的蠶豆根被犁出來. 蠶豆根很特別, 上面有白色顆粒狀根瘤菌, 可固定空氣中的氮氣, 增加土壤含氮量, 肥沃田土, 幫助作物成長.
蠶豆根在土中默默的對農地有益, 鮮少人知.




Chris said,
十一月 17, 2009 at 7:02 下午
Lovely description of the life of the fava bean and their benefit as winter cover crop.
Gold star..
I’ve read that the taproot of fava bean can go 1 to 3 feet
deep into the ground which can help to open up heavy compacted soils. All this in addition to the well known nitrogen benefits.
TsueyShuian翠軒 said,
十一月 18, 2009 at 5:33 下午
謝謝 Gs. What do you like and dislike about it?
This is the first time I’ve heard that the taproot is doing good to the soil. Thanks for the information.