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Uncommon card · Nature
Companion planting, an Uncommon card
Companion planting is the polycultural practice in horticulture and small-scale agriculture of co-planting different crops to provide a measure of weed suppression, pest control, and pollination, to attract beneficial insects, to maximize the use of space, and to increase crop productivity.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 75
- Power
- 146
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 22,000
Power 146 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Companion planting quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Companion planting card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The technique may allow farmers to reduce costly inputs of ______ fertilisers and pesticides.
Answer
artificial. The technique may allow farmers to reduce costly inputs of artificial fertilisers and pesticides. From the Companion planting article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Benue State. Benue State 60,000 · Betula papyrifera 46,000 · Companion planting 22,000 · Yokuts Valley, California 6,700 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Companion planting is used by farmers and gardeners in both industrialized and developing countries for many reasons.
- Many of the modern principles of companion planting were present many centuries ago in forest gardens in Asia, and thousands of years ago in Mesoamerica.
- The technique may allow farmers to reduce costly inputs of artificial fertilisers and pesticides.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Companion planting article was read about 22,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 75: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Companion planting
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Companion planting (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : manfred.sause@volloeko.de, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
