And they do very well (understandably) with legumes.
New on the snack front are two chips made with legumes and without gluten.
Numerous initiatives are encouraging a switch from single-crop maize to drought-resistant and nutritious sorghum and millet, intercropped with legumes.
Certain species of nitrogen-fixing bacteria can coexist intimately (symbiotically) with legumes and other plants, providing the plants with necessary nitrogen (Figure 6).
Pumpkins and winter squash; exotic mushrooms and truffles; root vegetables, including sweet potatoes, turnips and beets; sturdy winter greens; tangy crucifers such as broccoli and brussels sprouts can be mixed with legumes, nuts, eggs and perhaps cheese.
Fields are not allowed to lie fallow but are maintained by the use of ash and manure and by the alternation of corn (maize), sorghum, millet, and taro with legumes for nitrogen replenishment.
WHAT WE LIKE Piatto misto, house salad, veal liver crostini; corn fritters with Umbrian lentils, roasted vegetables with legumes, chickpea fritters; timballo of potato and zucchini, chicken with red pepper salsa, braised beef stuffed with salami and red peppers, rabbit stew; torrone, hot chocolate mousse, orange mousse.
Cereals are often rotated with legumes and root crops.
The species differed in both rooting density and root axes thickness, with legumes distinguished by coarser axes.
Growing BA, RY, and TR in mixtures with legumes decreased NDF concentrations, whereas growing RG and WT with legumes did not affect the NDF concentrations of either the fresh or the ensiled forages.
Growing grasses in mixtures with legumes decreased the concentration of sugars of fresh forages relative to grasses grown in monoculture.
