Sentences with phrase «growing seasons of spring»

Bringing Plants and Children Together The growing seasons of spring and summer are joyous events for nature lovers.

Not exact matches

The show's popularity grew this season as the number of designers showing their Spring 2013 collections there hit an all - time high with more than 30 present.

A late spring frost nipped many of the blooms making for a short and sparse growing season causing the farmers» market vendors to already bid them adieu.

He added that more competition springs up every year, but the pepper's longer growing season (five to six months) and the chance of getting faulty seed makes it tricky to grow.

This for us heralds the start of spring and hopefully the start of a wonderful season of home grown fruit and veg plus meals As for the recipe, lightly steamed https://flic.kr/p/Sf9nwQ

«The 2013 growing season began early, with a warm and dry spring, and the weather stayed absolutely beautiful all the way through an early harvest,» said Jon Ruel, President of Trefethen Family Vineyards and President of the Napa Valley Grapegrowers.

We plant basil in spring and then get at least two harvests of basil to make pesto through the growing season, plus enough for gleaning random leaves for pasta dishes, bruschetta, caprese salad, etc..

The show has grown steadily throughout its run, prompting organizers to combine operations of their annual spring show with the fall expo in Pleasanton, while moving the latter back one month from its usual October date to the third weekend in November «'' a perfect time for golfers to get the jump on the holiday shopping season while avoiding the Black Friday rush of the following weekend.

When I think of the name Aya, I think of the time when the season changes from winter to spring and everything starts to bloom and grow.

It's no mystery why carbon dioxide (CO2) levels fluctuate with the seasons: As greenery grows in the spring and summer, it soaks up the planet - warming gas, and when trees shed their leaves in the autumn, some of that gas returns to the atmosphere.

The Warming Meadow's radiators raise average soil temperatures by about three degrees Fahrenheit, decrease growing season soil moisture by up to twenty percent and advance the spring snowmelt date by up to a month in order to simulate predicted effects of climate change.

Spring, the onset of the growing season, is well studied, but fall — which is more complex and dependent on geography — is more difficult for scientists to characterize, Schwartz said.

The spring growing season is of increasing interest to biologists studying the effects of a warming climate, and in coming decades non-native invasive shrubs are positioned to win the gamble on warming temperature, Primack said.

Although rainy seasons like this past spring can lead to bumper crops of cheatgrass, during a drought hardly anything grows at all, leaving ranchers with acres of bare land.

In a recent paper, «Divergent Responses to Spring and Winter Warming Drive Community Level Flowering Trends,» researchers demonstrated that species were changing at both ends of the growing season.

Farmers can now grow corn in many areas where length of growing season, as well as spring and early fall temperatures, were formerly prohibitive.

Translated into Latin by the Romans from the Greek Goddess Demeter, the Earth Goddess, Virgo is associated with the arrival of spring — as the bringer of the growing season for farmers.

Translated into Latin by the Romans from the Greek Goddess Demeter, the Earth - Goddess, Virgo, is associated with the arrival of spring and bringer of the growing season.

Late in the season, choose sections of the garden to «rest» by growing a nitrogen - boosting patch of field peas or clover to till into the soil the following spring.

Brussels sprouts are available year round; however, they are at their best from autumn through early spring when they are at the peak of their growing season.

Encourage them to think about nature and how spring is a season of growing and change.

Butter can be an especially rich source of Activator X when it comes from cows eating rapidly growing grass in the spring and fall seasons.

You will come away with the knowledge, confidence and encouragement to establish a garden this spring that will produce an abundance of wellness throughout the growing season.

If there's any season that makes me want to bring a little bit of color into our farmhouse, it's spring, with everything starting to grow again after the long winter and beautiful blooms coming up all over.

The frigid, cold temperature of the winter season causes your pet's hormones to grow a thicker coat, while in the spring and summer months, your animal's fur will start to fall from its skin.

On the other hand when spring season arrives and sun comes out, Border Collies again start shedding because this time they are getting rid of their old coat that they grew in winters.

Northern elephant seals, the world's second largest type of seal, are named for the males» proboscis - like snouts; mature males, which can grow to 16 feet long and weigh up to 2,268 kilos, inflate their snouts to make rumbling bellows during the spring mating season).

As my line of ketubah prints grew, my income did become more stable (though still seasonal, since most ketubah sales happen during «wedding season,» ie, spring and summer).

David Burdeny's stunning aerial photographs of the Spring tulip growing season in Flevoland, NL.

If heavy spring rains wash out half the crop, and the rest of it dies in the summer drought, a longer growing season won't help.

«a FACE study conducted at Maricopa, Arizona, USA — spring wheat was grown for two seasons at atmospheric CO2 concentrations of ambient and ambient + 200 ppm, with half of each plot receiving high amounts of nitrogen and half receiving low amounts.

In the paper, he reported that they (University of Alberta and Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development) had compared the two tillage systems (zero till and conventional till) and had included spring thaw emissions as well as growing season emissions.

When spring thaw emissions were combined with growing season emissions, the conventional tillage system actually had higher total nitrous oxide emissions than the zero till system.We suggest that this type of experiment (full year emission measurements) be repeated with deep banding of N fertilizer, which would be expected to further reduce emissions from zero till systems.

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Springtime cold air outbreaks (at least two consecutive days during which the daily average surface air temperature is below 95 % of the simulated average wintertime surface air temperature) are projected to continue to occur throughout this century.19 As a result, increased productivity of some crops due to higher temperatures, longer growing seasons, and elevated CO2 concentrations could be offset by increased freeze damage.20 Heat waves during pollination of field crops such as corn and soybean also reduce yields (Figure 18.3).4 Wetter springs may reduce crop yields and profits, 21 especially if growers are forced to switch to late - planted, shorter - season varieties.

The Midwest growing season lengthened by almost two weeks since 1950, due in large part to earlier occurrence of the last spring freeze.16 This trend is expected to continue, 12,17 though the potential agricultural consequences are complex and vary by crop.

«Plants face an evolutionary tradeoff between the benefit of earlier leaf emergence, and hence, a longer growing season, and the risk of tissue damage from a false spring,» Allstadt explained.

Urban Heat Island profile Image from Lawrence Berkeley Labs From the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON Spring comes sooner to urban heat islands, with potential consequences for wildlife Urban - dwelling plants around the globe typically get a head start on the growing season compared to their rural counterparts because of the urban heat island effect, the phenomenon in which cities tend to be warmer than nonurban areas due to their plethora of built surfaces — made of concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetatioOF WISCONSIN - MADISON Spring comes sooner to urban heat islands, with potential consequences for wildlife Urban - dwelling plants around the globe typically get a head start on the growing season compared to their rural counterparts because of the urban heat island effect, the phenomenon in which cities tend to be warmer than nonurban areas due to their plethora of built surfaces — made of concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetatioof the urban heat island effect, the phenomenon in which cities tend to be warmer than nonurban areas due to their plethora of built surfaces — made of concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetatioof built surfaces — made of concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetatioof concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetatioof vegetation.

Indeed, since 2010 GAT has been falling off a cliff and if the current rate of cooling continues for another decade we'll be in a world of hurt from global cooling as growing seasons grow shorter, late spring and early fall frosts take their tolls, and colder winters requiring more fuel with a rising price per BTU attached to it.

Also, the growing season is increasing (the number of days between the last spring frost and the first fall frost) These together are what is driving the average up.

Sea levels are rising (ask the Mayor of Miami who has spent tax monies to raise road levels), we've had 15 of the hottest years eve measured, more precipitation is coming down in heavy doses (think Houston), we're seeing more floods and drought than ever before (consistent with predictions), the oceans are measuring warmer, lake ice in North America is thawing sooner (where it happens in northern states and Canada), most glaciers are shrinking, early spring snowpacks out west have declined since the 1950's, growing seasons are longer throughout the plains, bird wintering ranges have moved north, leaf and bloom dates recorded by Thoreau in Walden have shifted in that area, insect populations that used to have one egg - larva - adult cycle in the summer now have two, the list goes on and on.

The shifting shoulder seasons of fall and spring create ecological issues with mistiming of pollinators, changing growing seasons, and longer allergy seasons.

Spring thaw, and the amount and frequency of growing season precipitation will influence N2O emissions.

There has been a lengthening of the growing season and an increase in activity in the northern forests — the greening of the Arctic (200 blogs ago, Getting Ready for Spring 5).

Asparagus: Although asparagus is a perennial, and can't be planted for an instant crop in one season, pepper plants can be grown in the asparagus patch to optimize the use of that space during the summer, after the spring asparagus is picked and eaten.

I would respectfully suggest that he knows not of what he speaks if he is suggesting warmer winters and springs will extend growing seasons and even allow farming to happen in places like Siberia or Canada's north.

So a small amount of CO2 moves into the atmosphere over the Northern Hemisphere winter and into spring, and then moves back into newly grown plant tissue during the northern growing season.

Buyer traffic is expected to grow significantly with the start of the spring selling season.

The uptick in seller confidence recorded by two recent surveys is uplifting, but concern is growing that seller withdrawal from the market is creating record low inventories that are limiting buyer choice, and curtailing sales in the middle of the spring buying season.

If there's any season that makes me want to bring a little bit of color into our farmhouse, it's spring, with everything starting to grow again after the long winter and beautiful blooms coming up all over.