Sentences with phrase «killing weeds»

Hot water is also effective when it comes to killing weeds in those same areas.

The mutation for an altered form of the acetohydroxyacid synthetase gene was provoked and selected, making this strain of wheat resistant to the herbicide Beyond, or imizamox, allowing the farmer to spray the herbicide freely, killing weeds (and soil microbiota) but not the wheat.

The exception is fermented soy, which I'll explain more about later and even worse GMO soy that is contaminated with large pesticide residues as the reason it is GMO is so they can spray the potent toxic herbicide Roundup on them to improve crop production by killing the weeds.

Keeping crops alive while killing the weeds around them has long been a problem for farmers.

By knowing how much damage the weeds might do, farmers can weigh that loss against the cost of killing the weeds.

«Theres a pretty substantial group now thats looking at the big picture, beyond just killing weeds,» says Tony Svejcar, a U.S. Department of Agriculture researcher in Oregon.

He has to find the sweet spot — just enough sun to kill the weeds, but not so much heat that he loses his crop.

It grows tall and fast and its dense growth kills weeds.

This heat tends to kill weed seeds and disease organisms, but probably will not work in cooler parts of the pile.

When composting crop residues, manures or other agricultural wastes, it's necessary to achieve temperatures above 131 °F for a defined period of time in order to kill weed seeds and human pathogens.

It's like using a torch in a flower bed and hoping that once you kill the weeds, the flowers will flourish.

But the finding may also complicate efforts to counter the weeds, he adds, because it may not be desirable to use herbicides to kill weeds in a highly diverse, nutrient rich area.

Back before chemical pesticides and herbicides, farmers had to come up with ways to kill the weeds that took over their fields.

While commonly used in salad dressings, this particular vinegar has also been used to kill weeds, polish armor, clean household appliances, and make homemade pickles.

Finally, your compost pile needs to heat up enough to increase the rate of decomposition and kill weeds and any other parasites or pathogens that may be lurking within.

Do you want to eat the herbicide used to kill weeds in the corn fields?

By using natural remedies to kill weeds, buying organic fertilizers, creating your own compost, and recycling the weeds you pull, you can keep your plants healthy while keeping them natural.

Homemade recipes: There are many great recipes out there that have been used to kill weeds.

The second is that if the water is hot enough to kill the weeds, it's hot enough to kill your plants.

That's the major pesticide sprayed on a lot of these Roundup resistant crops, basically allows them to not have to do any weeding at all, because it kills everything except the plant, i.e. kills the weed and it's the chelator.

They use pesticides to kill bugs and herbicides to kill weeds.

Think about it: Roundup ready crops are engineered to survive herbicides, such as glyphosate, that kill weeds.

Any use of Roundup to kill weeds in lawn maintenance should be abandoned.

As a one - time alcoholic, I know firsthand that the only way you can kill a weed is at root, and that means going clean long enough to kill your metabolic syndrome once and for all.

After introducing Round Up (a broad - spectrum herbicide developed by Monsanto and used to kill weeds that threaten commercial crops) in the 1970s, Monsanto quickly introduced Round Up - Ready seeds; crops that are resistant to the main ingredient in Round Up that kills off pests.

This allows farmers to kill weeds with Roundup without killing crops.

Question: So one of my uncles cut the grass and he clean d the backyard and while he was doing that he put this dust which is to kill the weeds growing and after he let my dogs out and my dogs were around the backyard and I'm worried they might have ate some, since my dad had two dogs in the past and a company came and did the same thing and sadly the two dogs died, since he tried to just wash it off the pavement but he said it only made the dust taste sweet.so I'm not really sure what to do?should I be worried?

You may have heard the saying, «the best way to kill a weed is by the root.»

To kill weed seeds the compost must be heated to 60º centigrade, either by heating it in an oven or steaming it.

Some specialists in carbon sequestration through forests and farm fields, including Kevin Gurney at Purdue, have told me the policy here is out ahead of the science, given that it remains difficult to measure precisely how much, or even whether, a particular change — for example from plowing fields to no - till agriculture using pesticides to kill weeds — improves the rate of carbon sequestration.

Family Farmers: The farms and community will benefit from free manure processing which will nearly eliminate odor, kill weed seeds, and reduce bad bacteria levels.

I know ethanol killed my weed eater.)

Its acidic nature gives it the power to kill weeds (be careful to apply only to weeds since it's non-selective and can harm your grass or flowers just as easily).

In fact, it can be downright dangerous because there are growing health concerns about one of the chief ingredients, glyphosate, used to kill weeds.

Not exact matches

I know this because whatever machine learning they use to stop online harassment is more like an email filter to weed out some political fluff from your inbox or kill spam.

Thus, in a lot of ways, Elon Musk's flamethrower is really more similar to weed - killing torches like the Weed Dragon, which could be bought at hardware stores, than an actual flamethrower, such as the XM42 - M, which can shoot flames up to 30 fweed - killing torches like the Weed Dragon, which could be bought at hardware stores, than an actual flamethrower, such as the XM42 - M, which can shoot flames up to 30 fWeed Dragon, which could be bought at hardware stores, than an actual flamethrower, such as the XM42 - M, which can shoot flames up to 30 feet.

Aren't we killing plants to make clothes and when there are weeds on our yard?

If it is filled with weeds, you have to pull them or kill them.

Sanda - yes in the basque country too and even to the point that some industrial growers consider them weeds and are always trying to kill them.

Use environmentally — generated plant — killing compounds; rotate crops, till, hand weed or mulch to manage weeds

Commonly used by farmers to control weeds, and Landcare groups to kill grass and weeds before tree planting, many don't have any qualms about using glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup ® — but not the Storti's and thousands of other organic farmers.

The following materials make good compost: coffee grounds, corn stalks and leaves, egg shells, garden plants killed by frost, grass clippings, kitchen scraps (fruits and vegetables), leaves, manure from herbivores, pine needles, sawdust, shredded newspaper, straw, and weeds (unseeded).

And, grains have been developed so they will survive when the fields are sprayed with ROUNDUP to kill off the weeds.

An Australian farmer invents a device which kills viable weed seeds by 95 per cent, reducing the need for herbicides.

This negates expenditure on purchasing insecticides, pesticides, and other weed - killing chemicals.

Chicago is touting its fifth year of working with the Midwest Pesticide Action Center to limit the use of weed - killing chemicals in parks.

These chemicals normally kill crops as well as weed, so resistant crops would permit farmers to ignore weeds growing among their crops early in the season, as they can use an effective herbicide later in the year.

It will kill common lawn weeds like dandelion, clover and more.

Sinner: Dupont The chemical company DuPont is offering compensation to landscapers and property owners because its weed killer, Imprelis, also kills trees.

Garlic mustard's weapon is a chemical that kills soil fungi... Garlic mustard, a European weed introduced to the United States in 1868, is advancing rapidly through mature forests, crowding out local plants as it goes.