Sentences with phrase «by plant size»

Niemiera's study concluded that the number - one item buyers look for in landscaping is a sophisticated design, followed by plant size and maturity and diversity of plant life.

Not exact matches

The context of Jesus» statement about the size of the mustard seed is the man sowing seed in his garden, which is confirmed by the word «garden plants» (lachanon; # 3001 λάχανον; a potable herb; a vegetable).

If the reason for using containers is to expand the size of the garden rather than eventually to bring the plants indoors, then size and appearance is not a problem and the gardener can use fairly large containers such as plastic trash cans, wooden boxes or barrels, styrofoam picnic coolers, and the large plastic, fiber, or metal pots used by greenhouses for shrubs and trees.

Launched by brothers Jonathan and Alex Petrides, allplants have ignited the plant - powered movement over the past year — serving over 120,000 meals, quadrupling the size of their kitchen and becoming a community of over 50,000 people.

By this fall, the plant had quadrupled in size and was thriving.

Blue Bayou Maturity: early, height: 80 cm, the plant is «velvety» by touch, the leaves are blue - colored, the fruit are colored red and blue, weight: about 70g each, sweet taste, juicy, the variety is still unstable so the size of fruits may be different.

Bacon: One size does not fit all September 21, 2015: In the unassuming city of Frontenac, a rural town in southeastern Kansas that's situated in a region flanked by railroad tracks and perhaps better - known in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 1982.

The Capsicum annuum, the most common variety, is a hardy plant that will grow almost anywhere; its size is increased by culture, but, as in the case of many other berries its pungency is diminished.

With twice the flavor and nutrients at half the size, this new squash variety, developed by Cornell plant breeder Michael Mazourek with help from Barber himself, is not only adorable, it's the future of produce.

I discovered I could increase the per plant yield and also the pod size by employing a few simple practices such as choosing individual seedlings of the largest and most favorable growth characteristics and then when I began crossing varieties choosing seedlings that show distinguishing hybrid vigor!

Judging by the plants that were on exhibit at the Capsicum Industry Expo, Chinese breeders are very successful at increasing yield and fruit size.

The plant grows to a huge bush covered by hundreds of tiny cherry size pods starting as light green turning orange then bright red.

The following year's crop will produce some hybrids, which are discernible by extensive pod variation in shape and size on the same plant.

He can fend off three linemen the size of small duplexes and grab a 230 - pound running back by the bottom lip and plant him like a rhododendron, but he can't seem to get his butt out of bed for class.

Whenever the topic comes up, plant the seeds of acceptance by sending the message that families come in all shapes and sizes.

While overall habitat loss is a factor in these declines, research also indicates that even fields of sufficient size, if they are fragmented or interrupted by hedgerows or natural windbreaks, will be passed over by the birds, which may view the linear plantings as cover for predators.

In the UK, support levels for feed - in tariffs (FIT) are varied by energy source and size of plant, with actual and forecast degression levels published quarterly.

Each plant is evaluated individually according to the geology of its site, not by a «one - size - fits - all» model — therefore such rankings or comparisons are highly misleading.»

It measures 16 by 13 by 15.5 inches, and the three - gallon bucket can grow a variety of different sizes of plants!

The plant discovered on Yakushima by photographer Yamashita Hiroaki in July 2015 has stalks 20 - 40 cm long, and between July and August each stalk sprouts about five white flowers, each roughly 2 cm in size.

Krotkov and his team now are able to more accurately detect smaller sulfur dioxide concentrations, including those emitted by human - made sources such as oil - related activities and medium - size power plants.

Led by postdoctoral researcher Dr Violeta Simon - Porcar, they measured the plant's genome size and surveyed 30 populations of monkeyflowers from Shetland and across the United Kingdom.

By 2015, at least 20 commercial - size demonstration plants will have to be built and start operating to prove that CCS is a viable proposition.

By some estimates these habitats and their so - called blue carbon stocks — in the soil and the plants themselves — store up to five times more carbon than tropical rainforests the same size.

«Such an ability to choose between different responses according to their outcome could be particularly important in heterogeneous environments, where plants can grow by chance under neighbors with different size, age or density, and should therefore be able to choose their appropriate strategy» says Gruntman.

By the 1998 growing season, it was estimated that genetically altered crops planted in the U.S. — including tomatoes, squash, cotton, canola, corn, soybeans, rapeseed and potatoes — covered an area the size of Scotland.

But by the 1990s, white - tailed deer populations in parks had swelled to such size that many species of native wildflowers such as trillium and lilies largely disappeared, replaced by wild ginger and exotic species such as garlic mustard and Japanese stiltgrass, plants not favored by deer.

He saw that surface area wasn't everything: By extending a leaf's overall size while keeping living, energy - greedy matter to a minimum, the plant increases the odds that at least some of the splotchy sunlight will strike each leaf.

By precisely calibrating the mirrors with computer algorithms driving shoe box — size motors, eSolar can build its sunlight - harvesting power plants with many more small, flat mirrors, roughly one square meter in size, as opposed to the large, curved specialty mirrors employed in other designs.

By comparison, today's simple cycle power plants (gas turbine generator only) operate with efficiencies ranging between 33 and 44 percent depending on the size and model.

«Scientists discover C4 photosynthesis boosts growth by altering size, structure of plant leaves, roots.»

By decomposing organic matter, these pint - size fungi can influence carbon balances and the types of nutrients available to plants and animals.

A wind - sheltered irrigation area was used to evaluate the capture of sprinkler irrigation water by container - grown ornamentals as affected by species, plant size, and container size and spacing.

By going to 300 - meter resolution — closer to the size of fragmented forests and crop fields — FLEX should allow plant physiologists to understand how specific plants respond to different environmental stresses.

The introduction of invasive plant species has depleted and reduced the area of the laurel forests in which this species of bird lived by up to 3 % of its original size.

«By controlling the geometry and growth rates of groups of cells, you could then scale this up to control the size and shape of an organ such as a leaf, which is crucial for plant productivity.»

Kate Ravilious reports on the Norwegian company Statkraft's proposal to build a football - stadium - sized plant along a Norwegian fjord that would produce, at best, 25 megawatts of electricity by a process based on osmosis (28 February, p 40).

In a research study published in the journal Planta this past October, Bais and colleagues Spence, Donofrio and Vidhyavathi Raman showed that Pseudomonas chlororaphis EA105 strongly inhibited the formation of the appressorium and that priming rice plants with EA105 prior to infection by rice blast decreased lesion size.

The first four tracks in the L8 trail are the best preserved, whereas the state of preservation of the footprint - bearing surface is particularly critical in the northern part (Figure 8), where the surface appears very damaged by cracks of different size and by plant roots.

Blooms of phytoplankton, or microscopic plants, had decreased by 12 per cent in the past 30 years, and the size of the cells had also shrunk.

In foreign countries, where a plant's security may be provided by national armed forces, staff sizing and operating cost is apt to be substantially improved.

They were made by a chick - size hatchling of a new - to - science species of plant - eating dinosaur that Stanford dubbed Hypsiloichnus marylandicus.

The methodologies and approach proposed by NEI to define the size of the EPZ are the same as those that originally were used to set the 10 mile zone for existing plants, thus reinforcing the principle that SMR plant safety levels will meet or exceed existing plants.

It is expected that the emergency management actions and the size of the emergency planning zone will be adjusted to be commensurate with the level of risk posed by the plant, resulting in a risk to the public that is equal to or below current plants.

When you build a bigger collection of plants, start experimenting by layering with color, texture, shape, and size.

Eating plant - based, natural, chemical - free, and low on animal products will help you maintain a healthy body, and by healthy I mean disease - free, not size 0.

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....

Even when you walk up to the entrance you are greeted by cute life size flamingo figurines, cactus plants, and the like.

In this lesson, students will learn to make and interpret scale models and practice using the metric system for measurement by discovering the relative sizes of various large plants and animals.

The rear - wheel - drive sedan had a 120 - hp inline - six from an early 240Z, but the seed planted by the small, basic 510 had blossomed into a full - size, four - door behemoth with bells, whistles, and a price tag aimed to attract buyers interested in entry - level European luxury offerings.