Bulb Crops for Home Gardens
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Among all the garden crops, bulbous crops play an important role in magnifying the view of the home garden as these have other good qualities besides beautifying the place where these are grown. One of the main advantages of growing bulbous crops in a home garden is that due to perennial nature, a gardener does not have to worry about next season planting. All the bulbous plants have storage parts underground the soil which can be corms, true bulbs, pseudo-bulbs, stolons, rhizomes, tubers etc. While corms are similar to bulbs with the differentiation of hardness and no stems, the bulbils or bulblets are small bulbs, a rhizome is a modified stem that extends underground horizontally and arises from lateral stem of main stem of the plant. Stolons can be produced either underground or above the ground depending plant to plant.
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Bulb Crops: An Introduction
A home garden is a place where flowers, foliage and trees are planted according to the choice of the owner. It is a place which has aesthetic effects in addition to nutritional uses and where at the end of the day we get relieved from our tiredness. Home gardeners can plant any type of crop which suits their interest along with the environmental conditions they are living in. Among all the garden crops, bulbous crops play an important role in magnifying the view of the home garden as these have other good qualities besides beautifying the place where these are grown. One of the main advantages of growing bulbous crops in a home garden is that due to perennial nature, a gardener does not have to worry about next season planting. All the bulbous plants have storage parts underground the soil which can be corms, true bulbs, pseudo- bulbs, stolons, rhizomes, tubers etc. While corms are similar to bulbs with the differentiation of hardness and no stems, the bulbils or bulblets are small bulbs, a rhizome is a modified stem that extends underground horizontally and arises from lateral stem of main stem of the plant. Stolons can be produced either underground or above the ground depending plant to plant.
A bulb is a sharp pointed reduced and short stem covered by fleshy leaves which have either continuous or loose arrangements. These fleshy leaves are actually storage organs of food and a source of energy for the plants during their dormant stages and help them to survive in adverse environmental conditions such as low temperature, drought or heat. The roots in the bulbs are developed from their bases and hence the leaves and stem from upper side of it. The bases of the leaves are known as scales that contain the carbohydrates and other nutrients. A bulb comes under perennial class which