Sentences with phrase «when planting a garden»

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No kidding — she sent the biotech industry (the folks responsible for genetically modified foods) into a tizzy when the Obamas moved into the White House, whereupon she proceeded to plant an organic garden.

Culture is not an app you can install and master but a garden you plant, tend and, when needed, weed and prune.

PRO GARDENING TIP — When growing culinary herbs, cut off any flowers that may start to appear on your plants.

Though it is the smallest of seeds, yet, when it has grown up, it is the largest of garden plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and roost in its branches.»

Why bother planting a garden when you can buy your food at the store?

But it seems safe to guess that, when the time comes, reform and development will be in the air, a sense of forgotten truth to be reasserted, of imbalance to be corrected; also, that if the Church's garden then seems to need weeding, some at least of the weeds will be of our generation's planting.

«Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.»

Since we grew a nice Pellegrino plant in our Pepperworld test garden, I took some pods with me, and when I had a chance to meet Gianni, I gave a pod to him from that plant named in his honor.

Tomatoes and carrots grow better when planted side - by - side in the garden — and they taste great together too.

I do remember noticing them in a basic garden salad when we went to friend's homes for dinner, and I think at some point someone in my household planted a vegetable garden and grew a bunch, maybe two.

The dill had gone to seed in the garden and when we moved in the soil we had inadvertently planted lots and lots and lots of dill.

That being said, when my mom visited back in June she helped me start a little herb garden and 2 of the 6 herbs I planted look wonderful!

My best tips for eating vegan on a budget are: When possible buy in bulk, and always shop seasonally and plant a garden, big or small, take advantage of farmer's markets and stands.

I just planted blueberry bushes in my garden and will save this recipe for my «to do» list when we pick them!

When we moved into our upstate NY home many years ago, the previous owner had a small garden off the side of the deck full of cherry tomatoes plants and weeds.

Cutworms should be called Paul Bunyan worms because when they arrive in your garden, the tender bedding plants resemble newly fallen trees.

Each cage encloses a single pepper plant in the garden until late May, when the cages are removed.

Back when I had a garden, one of my favorite things to do was to just go out to the Sweet 100 tomato plant and pop those babies in my mouth like candy.

When not hard at work at Windsor Court, you can find Mr. To tending to his garden at home where he finds solace in the art of pruning and enjoys watching his plants grow.

However, this plant is growing in a heavier garden soil (I ran out of potting soil when I was transplanting) and also spent one winter on the windowsill versus under lights.

When I made a real effort to follow a plant based diet, a vegetable garden was recommended.

Second, if you raise them yourself, please don't throw away the last of the plant when you remove them from the garden to make room for warm - weather veggies.

I must remember to plant some rosemary when we work on our garden this year

Overhead sprinkling works fine when the plants in the garden are small.

Undoubtedly, when you planted the Spanish peppers, you grew other peppers in your garden as well.

These days, her garden has tons of red dragonfruits, bananas, pomelo in addition to trees my dad planted when we were young: mangos, tamarind, mandarin oranges, chico and coconuts.

I'm always disappointed when something doesn't work out, but I'm slowly coming to accept the garden as an experiment, where some plants will grow beautifully and others will not.

Eventually winter will pass, and when it does there's one thing on my mind — planting our spring garden.

I got even more excited when my little plant started sprouting little purple blossoms before anything else in my garden, followed by cute little baby Japanese eggplants.

My mom always had a garden when I was growing up and I remember helping her pick green beans and eating some of them right off the plant.

I do love this time of the year out there so much - when the plants are strong enough and big enough to handle a little interference from some weeds, and while there is just so much coming in from the garden.

When I finally had a yard of my own to plant a garden, not only did I plant every seed like I do now, but I also put every single plant I grew from seed into that garden.

Ask them to help you plant flowers or seeds in the garden and explain which vegetables they get to eat when the plant grows.

And get this... when your wee one is done using it, you can plant it in the garden because it is 100 % biodegradable!

In other words when you are done with the tag, plant in potting soil or your garden, add water, & watch your flowers grow.

Children begin to see the cycle of life in gardening, but issues of life and death are a lot less scary when dealing with plants.

I've done this and it looks gorgeous when the bottles shine through the plants in the garden.

When my husband planted our garden, he planned it so that the kids would always be able to see it from their bedroom window.

The Learning Garden is at its best during the late spring, summer, and fall months when program participants and campers help us plant, maintain, and harvest.

Well, being green is more than just buying more crap we don't need, it's also getting our hands dirty planting a garden, annoying your family by turning out the lights when they're still in the room, and having some fun with the babies in our lives!

The group will sketch native plants in and around the Nature Museum's gardens, working outdoors when weather permits, or indoors with specimens.

EA: When I used to garden with my dad, and I wanted to see the plants, the lettuce, the tomatoes and everything come right away, he said, «Son, listen, look at the little flower that grew.

She has been tinkering with genes since childhood, when, like an elfin Mendel, she spent long hours crossbreeding plants in her parents» garden.

However, when the microbial populations become unbalanced, these otherwise beneficial bacteria become a liability, similar to garden plants that become invasive and push out competing species, he explained.

When plants die customers give up gardening, and that's the nursery business's worst nightmare.»

Agricultural crops, grasses and garden plants alike can get sick and die when factors such as drought and excess sun force them to work harder to survive.

One such insect, the sap - sucking aphid (a common pest in gardens), has an effective escape plan, though: the bugs detect an approaching herbivore's breath and simply drop off the plant before it's eaten.Researchers at the University of Haifa at Oranim, Israel first noticed this phenomenon when they allowed a goat to feed on aphid - infested alfalfa plants — 65 percent of the plant pests simultaneously dropped to the ground just before the vegetation was devoured.The team suspected that several cues might have motivated the mass dropping, including the sudden shadow cast by the goat, plant - shaking triggered by the munching marauder and / or the herbivore's exhalations.

When evidence emerged that monarch butterflies were losing the milkweed they depend on due to the spread of herbicide - resistant crops in the United States, people across the country took action, planting milkweed in their own gardens.

The much loved tree was probably one of the first to be planted when the garden moved to its present site in 1820 and the felling caused considerable protest.

«When you look at modern gardens today... there's scarcely one without a plant from China,» says John Simmons, retired curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.