Sentences with phrase «then plant another crop»

Then plant another crop towards the end of the season when the tomato plants are on their last leg.

Not exact matches

If you plant seeds instead of planting female clones, then approximately half of your crop will likely produce males; the average male to female ration in seed.

Once again family legend appears to be an undocumented recollection, for Edmund could not have grown a crop in 1863 before fleeing to Texas whereupon after returning to Louisiana in April of 1865, in an unsuccessful attempt to revive his banking career, he then planted seeds given to him upon his return.

«The more you can vary the planting and harvesting dates in a crop rotation then the more the weed life cycles are disrupted,» Schroeder said.

Small parcels of forest are cut and burned, then the land planted with various crops.

And we think that one possible explanation for this could be that the collection of the feces and rubbish from towns under Roman law was then taken out to fertilize the crops, which gave you more plants, but unfortunately resulted in recontamination of the population, because the human feces then got onto the plants that were then eaten again.

For example, if you're a plant geneticist and you're against the widespread use of pesticides, then you shouldn't apply for a postdoc or a job with Monsanto, a company that has a lot of solid projects in its pipeline but also produces Roundup pesticide resistant crops.

If perennial plants come out of dormancy during an early thaw and then get hit with a late frost, which is what happened in 2012 in Illinois, the crop for that year could be lost.

It could be possible, then, to harness this relationship — via probiotic or related crop treatments — to enable plants to make do with less phosphate.

Phosphorus seeps into soils primarily by way of fertilizer and manure, and what crops and other plants don't use to grow then leaks into waterways with rain and snowmelt runoff.

And we hope that we can then use that information to discover the same genes in crop plants and see if those genes can be used to make crop plants more resilient to heat stress.»

At the time the main concern for plant breeders was pollen movement between different strains of crops — if a variety of sweet corn was contaminated by pollen from a popcorn variety, then the resulting hybrid offspring would produce seeds that were unusable for market purposes or for selecting new varieties.

And then you have the benefits of a better seedbed from tilling the crop rows where you're going to plant.»

The study is the latest in a line of research Afzal hopes will end in the development of a system in which leaf clip sensors will send precise information about plant moisture to a central unit in a field, which then communicates in real time with an irrigation system to water the crop.

When the paddocks were built decades ago, says Gread, there was enough water to plant crops year round, flooding the paddock, and then allowing the water to drain onto poor ground or into groundwater.

The [newly released] glyphosate can then be absorbed by the trees and plants, and cause damage to the subsequent crop.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

Once the radishes have grown, you can then use a cultivator like the Amazone Catros 6002 - 2 on the field — this increases the yield of the next crops you plant here.

On 3DS, the process is simple: cultivate the field, plant the seeds, wait a few minutes, harvest the crops, then cultivate the field — repeat from step one.

This is a crop based probability game which involves the students planting either organic or non organic crops, the die is then rolled which decides whether they survive or are infested with a disease.

Students are then challenged to produce a crop of plants that can grow everywhere in a field by taking advantage of the small variation in root type from one generation to the next.

Like most farmers, Walter plants a variety of crops in rotation, that is changing the crops planted in a field each year to save and replace soil nutrients: oats one year, then corn and then hay.

The following month, the whole town would be absorbed as the task of preparing the fields and then planting the year's turnip crop commenced.

Where humankind once roamed in small groups of hunter - gatherers and foraged for food and shelter, then learned to plant crops and build structures.

As spring ended, and summer came on, crops were fully planted and money was tight — as September / October arrived, it was always v touch - and - go for a while, but then money started sloshing» round the economy as harvesting was completed.

The hoe is used to till dirt that can then be planted with the desired crop.

Planting crops and then cultivating and harvesting them takes some time and follows a logical pattern, but is a largely joyless affair.

All the usual Harvest Moon staples are present, from tilling land to plant crops, which must then be watered and eventually harvested, to raising livestock for profit.

I was at Aldo Leopold's «Shack» in Baraboo, Wis.; at the World Food Prize Foundation conference in Des Moines; and then out in the fields of Ames, Iowa, where a sustainable - agriculture team at Iowa State University is showing how to grow bountiful crops of soybeans and corn with far less fertilizer and pesticide than is used in the standard industrial - style pattern of planting.

For folks who enjoyed my piece on gardens and carbon sequestration, Peter Bane offered this practical advice on enhancing carbon storage: engineer «soil climaxes», and lots of them — meaning we need to grow plants, be they cover crops, annual food crops, or perennials, trees and shrubs, and then we need to cut them back before they flower.

We actually need more in the atmosphere to get back to the geological historic average (~ 2500ppmv) then we would see real plant / crop growth.

Farmers certainly can't, since energy is required to plant and harvest their crops and then to transport those crops to customers.

And if any climate change is small, then plant growth and crop yields will probably be significantly higher in the future high - CO2 world.

C / If global temperatures decline and through stupidity after some way is found to limit and reduce CO2, global CO2 levels are reduced through the efforts of activist climate science establishment then the world will go hungry as the world's farmers will not be able to grow enough food as both yields and cropped area are reduced due to cooler or colder temperatures and reduced amounts of that essential plant food, CO2 other wise known as that planet destroying «carbon».

Because much of the cost will be realized after the emissions occur, the funds would have to be invested in order to produce resources in the future to compensate or make the best of conditions then; this can be investment in infrastructure (aquaducts and flood water management planning) and such things as R&D for drought / flood resistant crops, efforts to save ecosystems (those parts that will survive the climate change, or otherwise planting trees, etc, where they will do well in the future, or otherwise reducing other stresses so that ecosystems will be more resilient to climate change)(remember that ecosystems provide us with ecosystem services), etc, and / or investment in the economy in general so that more resources will be available in the future to compensate for losses and pay for adaptation.

If you are using a small building, such as a garage or greenhouse, to grow crops or plants for sale then you should consider a farm insurance policy.

Cool crops start out strong, growing quickly, and then slow their growth as days become shorter and cooler, according to the gardening experts at Bonnie Plants, which sells vegetable transplants at garden centers nationwide.