The high nitrogen amount
encourages vegetative growth, not flowering.
In hot and dry dessert climates, providing a sunscreen or partial shade can prevent sunscald and
encourage vegetative growth.
«We also advised them to remove the flowers to
encourage vegetative growth.»
Not exact matches
Seedlings can be fertilized with fairly high levels of nitrogen to
encourage strong
vegetative growth, but after the plants have adjusted to the garden, fertilizers should not be applied unless the plants have low nitrogen symptoms, such as leaf yellowing and stunted growth.
An
encouraging development is the recent commercialization of biotech crops producing a novel type of Bt protein called a
vegetative insecticidal protein, or Vip.