In our Agriculture for Everybody blog series, we will see the various crops that fix Nitrogen in the soil. This will enable us to plan well and get the maximum benefit.
Identifying Excessive or Deficient Nitrogen
List of Nitrogen Fixers
Identifying Excessive or Deficient Nitrogen
- Too Little Nitrogen results in plant burning, which causes them to shrivel and die
- Too Much Nitrogen results in Leaf edges becoming yellow or brown and wilt
List of Nitrogen Fixers
- Acacia Arabica (கருவேலம்)
- Albizia lebbeck (வாகை மரம்)
- Alfalfa (குதிரை மசால்)
- Alsike clover / true clover
- Bambara groundnut
- Beech Tree(புங்கம்)
- Berseem clover
- Birdsfoot trefoil
- Blue-green alga
- Bread Beans
- Broad bean (அவரைக்காய்)
- Chicken Pea (கொண்டைகடலை)
- Clitoria ternatia (சங்கு புஷ்பம் மரம்)
- Clover (தீவனப்புல்)
- Common bean
- Cowpea
- Crimson clover
- False Rudraksh
- Fenugreek (வெந்தயம்)
- Field peas
- French Beans
- Gliricidia sepium (சீமை கொன்றை)
- Green Gram
- Groundnut (கடலை)
- Hairy vetch
- Hyacinth Beans (அவரைக்காய்/ மொச்சை)
- Leucaena leucocephala (சவுண்டல் /கூபாபுல் )
- Indian Coral Tree (கல்யாண முருங்கை)
- Manila Tamarind (கொடுக்காபுளி)
- Mung bean
- Pecan
- Pigeon Pea or Red Gram
- Prosopis cineraria (வன்னி மரம்)
- Red Beans (Adzuki bean)
- Red Bead Tree (ஆனை குண்டுமணி)
- Red clover
- Senna
- Sesbania Grandiflora (அகத்தி கீரை)
- Sesbania sp
- Soybeans
- Sunhemp
- Sweet clover
- Sweet Peas
- Velvet bean (பூனைக்காலி)
- White sweetclover (வெள்ளை இனிப்பு தீவனப்புல்)
Great list! Do you think these plants would also do well in Hawai`i?
ReplyDeleteSince Hawaii has a tropical climate, this list can be used for selecting Nitrogen Fixers.
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