Overview of Wicking Bed Drought Gardening
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Wicking beds are a horticultural system that uses capillary action to transport water and nutrients from an underground reservoir to plant roots. This provides plants with a continuous supply of water and nutrients while also supplying oxygen to roots. Water wicks up through the soil to the root zone, creating a gradient from saturated in the reservoir to dry at the soil surface. Roots are able to grow in moist soil with adequate water, oxygen, and nutrients for growth. Wicking beds can be either in-ground or above-ground systems and are important for future food production as water will be a critical resource and wicking beds are an efficient use of water.
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- 2. • Overview of Wicking beds • 第1部分概述排汗病床
- 3. • How wicking beds work • 如何排汗病床工作
- 6. • Water wicks up to the root zone from an underground reservoir of water providing a gradient from saturated in the reservoir to dry at the surface • 水燈芯到根區的一個地下 水庫的水源提供了一個梯 度飽和的水庫乾涸的表面
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- 8. • Open and closed beds • 打開和關閉病床 In ground above ground 地面地面
- 19. • A new horticultural system • 一種新的園藝系統 • Why is it important • 為什麼重要
- 20. • Fears about future Food Production • 對未來糧食生產的擔憂
- 21. • Water will be the critical resource for future food production • 水將是未來的關鍵資源糧食生產
- 22. • The wicking bed technology • 芯吸床技術
- 53. • Part 6 Carbon capture • 第6部分碳捕獲
- 60. • Paying farmers to absorb carbon ensures our future food supply and offsets our energy use. • 支付農民吸收二氧化碳，確保我們未 來的糧食供應和偏移所使用的能源。
- 61. • Measure carbon absorbed by wicking beds • Compare with traditional decomposition of organic waste
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