Sentences with phrase «since plant leaves»

Since plant leaves reflect far - red light, when a mulch reflects far - red, the plant reacts as if competing plants are nearby and puts out more leaves and grows taller.

Not exact matches

Stevia was approved by the Food and Drug Administration nearly six years ago, and since it comes from the leaves of a plant and has no calories, it has led the charge in the search for more natural alternatives to sugar.

I just bought a basil plant, so since I wanted this super quick, I just cut up some leaves and threw them in and used garlic salt to season.

Manufacturing and tech industry jobs have left Upstate New York even more so since IBM's closure of its Kingston - based plant in 1994.

Twenty years ago those activities contributed similar amounts of heavy - metal pollution but have since drastically cleaned up their acts, leaving power plants as the leading manmade source, by far, of mercury emissions in this country.

Since plants can't run away from herbivores, many have evolved defenses such as thick leaves or prickly spines.

Since, over time, the only plants that will survive are those that reproduce and compete successfully, the mother plant's whole life is dedicated to producing sugars in its leaves, which are ultimately stored in these backpacks.

Since Glycerin is not as strong of an extraction method, it is not recommended for bark, roots and other hard parts of a plant and are more beneficial for flowers and leaves.

I prefer to make salves with dried herbs, as this reduces the chance of spoilage since no water is introduced to the oils from the leaves of the plants.

Archaeological research has been able to document the human use of peppermint as far back as 1,000 BCE, since dried leaves of this plant have been found in Egyptian pyramids from the same era.

Since ancient times, a large number of medicines have been derived from the sticky resin in the leaves and blossoms of the hemp plant.

If you are actually eating a whole food plant based diet, you wouldn't be using oil since it isn't a whole food but the waste product left after all the nutrition and fiber is processed out of a whole food.

When left on its own, fennel will grow as a perennial, but it is cultivated as an annual, since harvesting it ends the plant's life cycle.

New research indicates that all teas — black, red or green — are good for you, since they're all made with leaves from the Camellia sinenis plant.

Derived from the lemon - scented leaves of a perennial mint plant of southern Europe, lemon balm has been used since the Middle Ages for a multitude of symptoms including anxiety and restlessness in kids.

Since we use the roots of ginseng, the plant is killed during harvest so either the smaller roots need to be replanted or the seeds placed in the hole left by pulling the roots.

If you take any plant, burn it to ash, throw the ash in a pot of water, stir it around, skim it off, and let it evaporate, you'll be left with a white residue at the bottom known as pot ash — used since the dawn of history for everything from making soap, glass, fertilizers, and bleach.

Cichlids are the biggest group of offenders since they love to redecorate, and many barbs are herbivores and can devastate soft - leaved plants in no time.

The leaves of these plants have since been dried in order to be burned for the duration of the performance, and the smoke will convey thanks for the harvest.

About half of the areas were gone since earlier researchers had come through; they had been overgrazed to the point that no food plants were left.

While there are 282 plants across Europe left to go, coal plant retirements since January 2016 have already resulted in significant health and economic benefits.

Since then, many attempts have been made to read the tea leaves in hopes of predicting what approach EPA will take to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants — the big fish in terms of potential pollution benefits (86 % of U.S.

A central tradeoff in all vascular plants is the unavoidable loss of water for a given gain of carbon dioxide, since both exchanges occur via stomatal pores on leaf surfaces.

I've been curious about the best was to make sure my leafy living companions stay healthy while I'm away ever since I left for a week - long vacation about a year ago thinking I'd come up with a clever drip system to keep my favorite fern alive during my absence, only to come home and see the system failed and the plant was no more.

Since then, Elio Motors has been plagued with funding issues and repeatedly pushed back the production start date for its vehicles, leaving its portion of the Caddo plant empty and government leaders frustrated.

Since then, Elio Motors has been plagued with funding issues and repeatedly has pushed back the production start date for its vehicles, leaving its portion of the Caddo plant empty and government leaders frustrated.

Usually I use milk on my plants to keep their leaves clean but I'm gonna give coconut oil a try since I have some on hand.