Plant Encyclopedia
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Jack-bean: complete guide
Canavalia ensiformis
Canavalia ensiformis is a tropical climbing plant with large white flowers and long sword-like pods. Discover cultivation and growing tips for this food crop and green manure.
Scimitar-bean: complete guide
Canavalia gladiata
Canavalia gladiata is a tropical climbing plant with decorative green and red pods. Learn cultivation and harvesting tips for this nutritious food crop.
Crotalaria juncea: complete guide
Crotalaria juncea
Discover Sunn Hemp, a fast-growing legume with bright yellow flowers and nitrogen-fixing properties. Perfect for sustainable gardening and green manure practices.
Spotted Bur-clover (Medicago arabica): complete guide
Medicago arabica
Learn spotted bur-clover cultivation: nitrogen fixing, green manure benefits, crop rotation advantages for sustainable farming systems worldwide.
BoraginaceaePhacelia: complete guide
Phacelia tanacetifolia
Phacelia tanacetifolia is a stunning bee plant that fills gardens with blue flowers from June to October. Learn how to grow and care for this pollinator magnet.
Sesbania: complete guide
Sesbania cannabina
Everything about Sesbania cannabina: cultivation, location, soil, pruning and garden use. A practical guide to this fast-growing leguminous shrub.
White mustard: complete guide
Sinapis alba
Discover everything about white mustard (Sinapis alba): cultivation, harvest and culinary use. A guide for this fast-growing green manure.
Common chickweed: complete guide
Stellaria media
Common chickweed is a versatile herb with soft leaves and white flowers. Grows quickly in prepared soil and serves as green manure. Discover benefits and care.
Crimson clover: complete guide
Trifolium incarnatum L.
Crimson clover is a striking annual with bright red to carmine flower heads. This European species blooms late in season and is valuable for green manure.
Bitter vetch: complete guide
Vicia ervilia
Bitter vetch is a Mediterranean legume with elegant white flowers, historically used for grain and green manure. Perfect for warm organic garden systems.