"Well bugger me", as the actress said to the bishop.
That's the last time I will say 'that's not possible' when it comes to plants.
I should have learnt by now. I have shot my mouth off before and been proved wrong.
I was thinking of the huge pumpkins we grow with little seed. But there are small pumpkins. I am sure you could hybridise or develop varieties with more seed. I doubt if this has been done probably mostly (?) we have been looking for flesh.
Still its a big waste of biomass and potential pumpkin soup (and/or beer or hootch?)
The graph was interesting Avocardo was up there, and surprisingly, hemp was not.
I have been waiting for the usual summer glut of mangos. By this time of the year you can buy a tray of huge, ripe, delicious mangos for $10 or so. But they are
still $1 to $2 +EACH in the shops.
I found out why. Truck drivers are refusing to bring them from far north Queensland as it costs too much in fuel (About 2,500 K about $4,000+ just in fuel)
I will add that gripe to the top of the list of my arguments for the removal of double tax on petrol and diesel here. For my argument see
View topic - Switchgrass as biofuel - Permaculture discussion forum
Ericsson is trying hard. We take so much for granted. Africa sounds like a nightmare where back to basics is the absolute rule. Where do you start?
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In addition, Ericsson is supporting other initiatives to make its network equipment less fuel hungry or environmentally damaging.
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Napier grass- an annual crop
Botanical name?
Farmers start harvesting Napier grass when it is 3 months old
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