Sentences with phrase «like planting a garden»

Spreading the word among scientists is rather like planting a garden.

Like planting a garden, the fruits of these labors won't be seen for a while, and it's been a fantastic journey helping launching great dating sites while working with talented entrepreneurs.

Every one of you has it in you to make more money tomorrow than you did today in your author business, but if you start today, the fruits of your labors will show up in two or three months, just like planting your garden, success is nurtured, planted now to bear fruit later.

Preparing for retirement is sort of like planting a garden.

In fact, white is so essential to her practice that the artist has once remarked: «Painting without white would be like planting a garden without plants» (J. Mitchell, quoted in Judith E. Bernstock, ibid., p. 39).

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Though a plant delivery service might work in a dense urban population, people who like gardening tend to live far outside city centres.

Mr. Gagliardo, who previously worked at the Atlanta Botanical Garden and in amphibian conservation, said opportunities to build a plant collection like Amazon's did not come along often.

What might this garden - planting and house - building look like for the transient people of the 21st century?

Then let each chair get planted out in a nice place around the court house, maybe like a garden area where people could sit and confer.

but that's just it exactly, once that seed of doubt is planted it grows and takes over like a weed in the garden.

I planted eggplant for the first time in my garden this year, determined to figure out a way to eat one of the few vegetables I didn't like.

they love to «help garden» (which means they like to dig up and / or tromp your plants), and 3.

Today, class, it being late July and all, we're going to examine our zucchini facts: • Zucchini is always at the end of any A-to-Z food list; • Zucchini and fruitcake are the undeserving targets of many a joke; • The zucchini plant literally grows like a weed, making it absolutely ubiquitous in vegetable gardens across America; • And for that reason, enterprising cooks have discovered ways to turn it into muffins, and cake, and pancakes, and... Baked Zucchini Sticks.

I've seen hibiscus trees for sale at garden stores, plants like this one that have been pruned into a 3 or 4 foot tall tree.

Back when I had a garden, one of my favorite things to do was to just go out to the Sweet 100 tomato plant and pop those babies in my mouth like candy.

If you're like me, your garden's tomato plants have been struggling valiantly to bear ripe fruit all summer that they are only now beginning to provide.

The one Garden of Life product I really like and recommend is Organic Plant Protein (Unflavored).

It wasn't that I was unsuccessful, more like unaware that if you plant 3 watermelon plants and 3 cantaloupe plants they will take over your entire garden in a creepy, crawly, sort of way and kill off your basil, cauliflower, and chives.

Organic Plant Protein also has probiotics and enzymes that boost good gut health just like the rest of Garden of Life products.

There are many considerations affecting garden design, including site, soil type, rainfall, method of irrigation, mature height of various plants, structural support for plants like pole beans and tomatoes, and access to the garden for weeding and harvesting.

The only way to prevent cross-pollination, even in the huge garden you describe is to place netting over the individual plants to keep out insects like bees that would carry pollen from plant to plant.

I love gardening and plants in general and it sounds fascinating — I've never had much success with plants like broccoli or brussels sprouts in Manitoba, too many bugs and too short of a season, but I'm hoping to try again now that we've moved.

The baccatum plants tend to stand out in the garden like small trees.

I honestly haven't felt at all like gardening so far this year, despite ordering seeds, seedlings and even some raspberry plants (that are still sitting, unplanted, in my garage).

I like the BecoPotty because it is low to the floor, and it can be planted in the garden once your mini potty days are over.

Or he would give me something that he knew would touch my heart — a miniature rose garden with an angel birdbath in memory of our three babies we lost, a coupon for flowers he would plant in the spring for me, a cd with songs that he knew I liked.

I'm reading a lot about dye gardens and thinking about what plants I might like to use for that.

When I finally had a yard of my own to plant a garden, not only did I plant every seed like I do now, but I also put every single plant I grew from seed into that garden.

Eventually, he will see that Mama has made her way into the garden to plant onions and then he's off like a rocket in her direction»cause... well, he's a Mama's boy that Harper.

Interactive toddler books like this one encourage your toddler to find and count the different plants and creatures in the garden, and introduce descriptive words for him to learn.

Can you take on a big project like painting a room or planting a garden?

Some may sound like chores, such as gardening or watering the plants, but they and be learning experiences and healthy physical activities.

These acts of service like vacuuming, shoveling the snow, hanging a bird feeder, planting a garden, etc., need to be done with joy in order to be perceived as a gift of love.

Read Planting a Rainbow and then learn more by creating flower garden collage art like School Time Snippets.

Interactive toddler books like «Counting in the Garden» encourage your toddler to find and count the different plants and creatures in the garden, and introduce descriptive words for him to Garden» encourage your toddler to find and count the different plants and creatures in the garden, and introduce descriptive words for him to garden, and introduce descriptive words for him to learn.

«It's like a garden where few, if any, seeds have been planted.

It may still feel like winter in some parts of the country but today we're getting ready for Spring with these wooden spoon plant markers — perfect for bringing a little creativity to your garden.

And they have other great gifts too like a school meal program, art supplies and planting a vegetable garden.

The terrarium mixes activities like gardening, sand art and decorating to create a beautiful space to grow plants within your child's own room.

And there are many fun and effective ways to teach them how to eat that don't involve boring lectures about fat grams and food additives — like using fruit and veggies to learn shapes and colors, counting blueberries, or planting a school garden.

While we've accomplished a good amount of projects over the years, like our dining room makeover, adding custom window trim, adding landscaping and planting a garden, turning a bedroom into a craft room, and ridding numerous rooms of «builder beige», we still have plenty of dreams and goals for our forever home!

If you like the planting possibilities of our top pick, but don't think you need an app to remind you about your indoor hydroponic garden, this option might be for you.

She has been tinkering with genes since childhood, when, like an elfin Mendel, she spent long hours crossbreeding plants in her parents» garden.

Like plants in a garden, the diverse populations of microbes that normally line the intestinal tract, called the microbiota, are essential to human health.

Meanwhile, botanists like Stuppy put a new spin on the tradition of seed collecting at the Kew gardens» Millennium Seed Bank, an international repository for plant species threatened with extinction in the wild.

Both are examples of «chemical gardens,» a type of chemical process and the name of an experiment common in chemistry sets that operates along the same principles and forms tubes of crystals that make plant - like shapes, Escribano said.

«I like gardening and plants,» she says.

The thing that I would do differently in a place like China is this: I would go for planted roofs with container gardening for food growing.

Surrounding it are a series of small garden plots growing desert plants, each walled in by what look like cardboard hedges.

A year ago, the University of Colorado student team demonstrated a gardening system with plants robotically tended on a lazy Susan - like device.