Plant Nutrients in Desert Environments

Gardens Reduce Food Costs, Landscape Homesteads, and Improve Neighborliness.- 19.3 City Parks, Golf Courses, and Recreation Areas.- 20 Plant Nutrients for Disturbed Land Reclamation.- 20.1 Classification of Disturbed Lands.- 20.2 Reclamation Purposes and Alternatives.- 20.3 Spoil Replacement and Revegetation Techniques.- 20.4 Coal Mine Reclamation in Desert Areas.- 20.5 Vegetation Adaptability.- 21 Desert Environments Offer an Outstanding Future Potential.- 21.1 Technology Unlocks Cropland Productivity.- 21.2 Future Agricultural Research.- 21.3 Gardening for Food and Fun.- 21.4 Living on a Few Acres.- 21.5 Desert Environments Attract People.- Glossary of Agronomic Terms.- References.- Figure Index.- Fig. 1. Commercial agriculture in the desert area in Colorado, USA.- Fig. 2. Mixed vegetables grown in a small farm garden.- Fig. 3. A sand dune complex at the foot of mountains in Sangre de Christo, Colorado, USA.- Fig. 4. Plowing under sorghum stubble with a seven- bottom moldboard plow.- Fig. 5. Furrow irrigation in Texas, USA.- Fig. 6. An earthworm and earthworm castings in a fertile organic soil.- Fig. 7. Orange trees in Florida, USA growing in a fertile sandy loam soil.- Fig. 8. Planting corn and applying commercial fertilizers and soil amendments in the USA.- Fig. 9. Alkaline soil deposits in a desert area in California, USA.- Fig. 10. A stunted ear of corn caused by an extreme soil nitrogen deficiency.- Fig. 11. Surface application of inorganic fertilizer in Arizona, USA.- Fig. 12. Potassium-deficient corn in the USA.- Fig. 13. Native vegetation in a desert area in Arizona, USA.- Fig. 14. The Rio Grande River in Texas, USA.- Fig. 15. Side-dressing corn with anhydrous ammonia nitrogen fertilizer in the USA.- Fig. 16. Beef cattle grazing on an irrigated pasture in a desert area in Colorado, USA.- Fig. 17. Injection of liquid municipal sewage sludge into agricultural soil in the USA.- Fig. 18. Young citrus trees growing in a desert area in Arizona, USA.- Fig. 19. An outstanding home in a desert area in California, USA.- Fig. 20. Copper mine tailings that have been contoured to prevent wind erosion in Arizona, USA.- Fig. 21. A irrigated family farm in a desert area in the southwestern USA.- Fig. 22. A modern city established in a desert environment in the southwestern USA.