|Better Farming Series 07 - Crop Farming (FAO - INADES, 1976, 29 p.)|
|Looking after the crops|
Earthing up, sometimes called ridging up, is putting earth round the collar, or crown, of plants (see Booklet No. 1, page 15).
With certain plants, such as maize and millet, adventitious roots then grow in the mound of earth.