Sentences with phrase «dead plants in»

Cobbwebbs, overgrown and dead plants in the sink outside, and some of the upkeep keeps the property from the Mermaid potential «perfect.»

I was working the dead plants in a pot most of last summer.

The tiny swimming pool was very clean, but there were dead plants in the pots and the wooden furniture unkept.

Not exact matches

I want to be a long - dead American guy who planted trees that someone will make guitars from in the future.»

«Big manufacturing and grow facilities have had their roof blown off, there is water in their manufacturing rooms, equipment damaged, no light for plants and most are dead,» said Goodwin Aldarondo, the president and CEO of Puerto Rico Legal Marijuana.

I threw one once in the first church I pastored... I call it my «Dead Plant» sermon.

We continue to pour on the nitrogen, even as scientists report the existence of 50 «dead zones» where nitrogen has flowed from fields to water, and resulted in an excess of plant growth, a depletion of oxygen and the extinction of life.

1) FOSSIL RECORD: made of not only bone to stone fossils, but also amber, dehydrated corpses, footprints in mud / ash to stone fossils, leaf and insect imprints in various forms of stone, along with many other forms of preservation of dead animal / plant life from times long ago.

However what happens from the time one is planted in the ground until the resurrection of the dead is a different story.

I do use dried herbs in the winter when my plants are dead, and this «recipe» still turns out just fine.

Last fall, with my cookbook tour, I never pulled out the basil plants that took over much of the garden, so their dead stalks still stand in a creepy post apocalyptic row.

It snowed in Baltimore while we were gone, and when I got back, my hot pepper plants were as dead as can be.

Jacquin, who first described the species as «chinense» in his work, Hortus botanicus vindobonensis, wrote, mysteriously, «I have taken the plant's name from its homeland,» which was dead wrong.

The only time I prune pepper plants is to get rid of the dead wood after they've over-wintered in the greenhouse.

Rotting plant material in the greenhouse (stems, leaves, and flowers) makes an ideal environment for pathogens and pests, so no dead plant material should be in the greenhouse.

Q: Dear Dave, Twice now, I've had Tabasco plants in 5 - gallon buckets that just dropped dead on me right when they started to make pods.

Twice now, I've had Tabasco plants in 5 - gallon buckets that just dropped dead on me right when they started to make pods.

In 1794, Jefferson had his slaves plant 900 peach trees, which also made excellent firewood from the dead wood pruned each winter.

Arsene chose to (1) declare the deal dead, saying Monaco aren't selling him (2) plant a story in the media that we're confident of landing him and Van Dijk next summer.

Police are investigating after fetuses were found dead in a trash can and a sewage treatment plant in upper Manhattan.

NEW YORK (AP)- Police are investigating after fetuses were found dead in a trash can and a sewage treatment plant in upper Manhattan.

A lawsuit seeking to halt the shutdown of a long controversial nuclear power plant located at Indian Point in Buchanan is dead on arrival after staunch opposition from Westchester County's Democratic lawmakers.

Fungi are the primary decomposers of dead plant and animal matter in many ecosystems, and are commonly seen on old bread as mold.

In forest ecosystems, cockroaches are known as important decomposers that consume dead and decaying plants.

Now, a much - reduced version of the pipeline seems to be the most prominent solution: This year, bidding began to construct a pipe that would bring briny Red Sea wastewater from a new desalination plant in Jordan to the Dead Sea.

Laborious research in the 1960s by the late pioneering U.S. ecologist Eugene Odum seemed to indicate that forests achieve a balance between the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) absorbed by growing trees and plants and the amount of CO2 released back into the atmosphere by the decomposition of dead plant matter.

Of the traditional Aboriginal plant extracts tested, Witchetty Bush (Acacia kempeana) and Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) both stimulated glucose uptake and Dead finish (Acacia tetragonophylla), Turpentine bush (Beyeria Ieshnaultii) and Caustic weed (Euphorbia drumondii) significantly reduced fat accumulation in fat cells.

It remains unclear whether tropical forests, such as those of the Amazon or Congo, produce the same effect, due to much faster decomposition of dead plant matter in these climes.

In and around lakes and streams, this influx in nitrates can lead to plant growth out of whack with the local ecosystem's ability to handle it, resulting in oxygen - free «dead zones» devoid of marine and riparian life altogetheIn and around lakes and streams, this influx in nitrates can lead to plant growth out of whack with the local ecosystem's ability to handle it, resulting in oxygen - free «dead zones» devoid of marine and riparian life altogethein nitrates can lead to plant growth out of whack with the local ecosystem's ability to handle it, resulting in oxygen - free «dead zones» devoid of marine and riparian life altogethein oxygen - free «dead zones» devoid of marine and riparian life altogether.

In one of the few such studies, scientists examined how dead leaves, roots, and other plant litter decay over a decade.

Scientists have been giving us new views of the prehistoric world in the past decade that hinge on the realization that «biomolecules» such as ancient DNA and collagen can survive for tens of thousands of years and give important information about long - dead plants, animals, and humans.

In the most recent (December 2003) issue of Progress in Oceanography, researchers suggest this whopping increase was caused by a sudden influx of dead algae rich in carotenoids, pigments used by some plants for photosynthesiIn the most recent (December 2003) issue of Progress in Oceanography, researchers suggest this whopping increase was caused by a sudden influx of dead algae rich in carotenoids, pigments used by some plants for photosynthesiin Oceanography, researchers suggest this whopping increase was caused by a sudden influx of dead algae rich in carotenoids, pigments used by some plants for photosynthesiin carotenoids, pigments used by some plants for photosynthesis.

From termites to blue whales, virtually all life on Earth depends on plants» ability to turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into food — and without the waste product, oxygen, you would be dead in minutes.

That leads to more microbial biomass being produced compared to the amount of dead plant material — which contributes to the build - up of organic material in the soil.»

That helps explain why such a large earthquake was unexpected in the region, resulting in catastrophic consequences that included more than 24,000 people dead or missing and fuel meltdowns in three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the coast.

Heather was found to have a particularly helpful role in keeping carbon locked in as dead plant litter, and in reducing the numbers of worms below ground which would otherwise break down the plant material more quickly.

The findings, published online this week in the journal Ecology, show that the type of plants growing on the surface of our peaty moorlands can change how quickly dead plant material is broken down, influencing the speed with which carbon from dead plant matter is released back into the air we breathe.

While most of the ecological research on decomposition looks at plant litter, DeBruyn and her colleagues argue that the decomposition of carcasses — say, of a dead antelope on the African plain — may also have important implications for nutrient cycling in the larger landscape.

Network theory says they should indeed match, due to the prominence in both of dimethyl disulphide, a compound that is given off by the noisome dead horse arum plant and is a potent neurotoxin for some cockroaches.

The brine discharge from the plant will be piped 100 miles north through Jordan to replenish the Dead Sea, which has been dropping a meter per year since the two countries began diverting the only river that feeds it in the 1960s.

«The plant can judge, by simply counting the number of action potentials spreading over the trap, whether useless dead material has landed inside it or if useful animal prey has been caught,» says Sönke Scherzer, an electrophysiologist at the University of Würzburg in Germany, and one of the study's co-authors.

For example, bacteria in soil release nitrogen and phosphorus as they break down dead plants, and so these microbes could increase the amount of available nitrogen and phosphorus.

The plants and trees growing in its marshes and swamps shed tons of dead parts each year, adding to the soil base.

Furthermore, they used their versatile system to show that stretching induces irreversible increases in cell length in living plant cells, but that the increases in cell length are partially reversed in dead plant tissues once stretching stops.

«It's just a really common fungus in the environment that mostly lives on dead and dying plant tissue,» Leonard says.

Then they divided the baby plants into groups, placing dead leaves from healthy cacao plants in one set of pots, mixed leaves from the forest floor in another set and no leaves in the third set, giving different sets of microbes the first chance to land on and colonize the «virgin» leaves of the young plants.

Farming wouldn't be the fungus» sole feeding option, Junier knew, because researchers had already found that it takes in nutrients from living plants or dead material.

According to her, the research included four of the five functionally distinct carbon pools whose study is recommended by the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): aboveground biomass (live plants), dead organic matter, leaf litter (layer that contains a combination of fragments of leaves, branches and other decomposing organic matter) and soil (up to 30 centimeters (cm) in depth).

«The fact that they take nutrients that are not available to plants — because they're tied up in the dead leaves — and make them available to plants is something you might like to have happen in your garden,» Turner says.

While introgressive hybridization is thought to be common among plants, the finding suggests that hybridization in mammals may not be the evolutionary dead end biologists once commonly thought.