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DELICIOUS & NUTRITIOUS FOR BOTH YOU AND YOUR HYDRO SYSTEM
While pulses like dried lentils are cheap enough to buy at the grocery store , fresh legumes have a place in your hydroponic garden . Not only are they delicious and nutritious , but their nitrogen-fixing properties can benefit your system . | by Lynette Morgan
Leguminous plants — which include peas , beans , lentils , alfalfa , chickpeas , carob , tamarinds , soybeans , and peanuts — are staple food crops worldwide and are consumed almost daily in a range of different forms . While commodity crops such as pulses ( which are part of the legume family , though “ pulse ” refers only to the dry seed ) are cheap and readily available , the tender and gourmet fresh versions of legumes are well worth a place in a hydroponic garden . In fact , they are often grown as commercial greenhouse crops . A legume is a plant in the Fabaceae ( or Leguminosae ) family , which produces seed pods and have the important characteristic of forming a symbiotic relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria contained in nodules on the plant ’ s root system . Thus , in soil production , legumes can play an important role in crop rotation and nutrition and this benefit is not just limited to outdoor farming systems .
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