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Cutting cost, saving water and helping the environment by changing one simple thing

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Science Daily

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2015-07-28

In a recent experiment, where investigators made a small change to planting, not only did they find that tall narrow rows grow the same amount of vegetables, they retained more fertilizers – reducing what would have leached into groundwater – and they would need half the amount of water. In addition, fumigation rates for pests were cut by as much as 50 percent.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150728162620.htm