Sentences with phrase «on vegetable plots»

It is useful for insulating compost heaps, keeping weeds at bay on vegetable plots and on paths.

Hang them up in the garden - they not only look pretty spinning in the wind but make good bird scarers on the vegetable plot!

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Residents of Siberian cities get their food from three main sources: grocery stores (still not as modern as those in the West); city markets, farmers» markets, and street vendors; and their own dacha gardens where they grow fruits and vegetables on little plots of land surrounding the cities.

In terms of inroads into conventional production, the most significant crops are spelt (37 percent of the conventional area), buckwheat (30 percent), herbs (37 percent) and mixed vegetables on plots of less than 2 ha (37 percent).

Vegetable gardens are in — from the White House lawn to a small, lovingly tended plot in your own backyard, planters on your window sills or weekly trips to your local farm stands — and eating these freshly grown vegetables and fruits is the best way to add a green sheen to your daily dining and please your inner locavore.

At first, Cora declines, but after conditions on the plantation continue to deteriorate, she reluctantly agrees to accompany Caesar, filling her bag — as her mother did before her — with every last vegetable from her plot.

The bucolic garden, located on W. 162nd St. across from the historic Morris - Jumel Mansion — Manhattan's oldest house — boasts two dozen plots where members grow vegetables and flowers and host neighborhood parties around the barbecue pit.

Orange County, CA About Blog Inspiration and advice for growing fruits and vegetables, raising farm animals and back - to - basics living on farms of all sizes — from city plots to the rural back - 40.

Made with fresh ingredients grown on the hotel's own vegetable plots, enjoy traditional home - cooked meals on the terrace or in the light and airy dining area with views across the countryside to the hills behind.

For Skulptur Projekte» 07, he asked some 50 garden allotment associations in Münster to keep diaries on the everyday life of their urban agricultural plots, which are not only used for growing one's own fruit and vegetables but are also vital sites of social encounter.

By starting now, you may have some nutritious compost ready to use in the growing season on flower beds, vegetable plots and in patio planters, hanging baskets and window boxes.

With the extra hours, I have time to plant and tend trees with my group, to work on my own farm plot, to plant vegetables, lots of things.

The USDA / NASS studies tracked harvested acres without differentiating between irrigated and non-irrigated acreage; it gathered data on planted vs. harvested acres for some crops but not others; it did not account for systems in which «baby vegetable» crops (usually organic) are grown in short rotations on the same plot (such as spinach, lettuce, and carrots) and thus have lower yields; and it omitted some data that would have revealed too much information about individual farmers, in cases where very few growers produce a particular crop.

Orange County, CA About Blog Inspiration and advice for growing fruits and vegetables, raising farm animals and back - to - basics living on farms of all sizes — from city plots to the rural back - 40.

A wide range of fruit and vegetables are produced from plots and orchards on the ranch.