When the soil is dry, more moisture is lost from the plant.

土壤干燥时，植物就会失去更多的水分。

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A non-native plant chokes out native plants by hogging the nutrients in the soil.

一种非本地的植物通过占用土壤中的养分来扼杀本地植物。

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People are able to feed the plant by visiting the project at the Queensland library and literally stroking its fronds or soil.

人们可以通过访问在昆士兰图书馆的这个项目来养殖植物，抚摸它的叶子或土壤来喂养它。

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Fabian Fernandez, a soil and plant nutrition expert at the University of Illinois, says no-till means less intensive labor.

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If possible, in the year before you plant potatoes, plant a cover crop to improve the soil and the potato production.

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But it's not as simple as just putting a plant in the soil, Raskin says.

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We then follow that carbon which has been fixed by the plant into the soil and into the microbes and back out of the soil.

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They helped me pull up the soil and plant the seeds, and they've been at the White House several times a year, because we've just been learning what it looks like to grow your own food and eat your own food.

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