Sentences with word «pigweed»

James Peden, author of Vegetarian Cats and Dogs states there are natural urinary acidifiers, including asparagus, peas, brown rice, oats, lentils, garbanzos, corn, Brussels sprouts, lamb's quarters (the herb Chenopodium album, also known as pigweed), most nuts (except almonds and coconut), grains (not millet), and wheat gluten (used in kibble recipes).

Then, poof, a strain of pigweed showed up that Roundup would not kill.

Saw a news story last week about pigweed.

It's also called pigweed, little hogweed, or verdolaga, depending on where you live.

A somber picture of the struggle against super-weeds emerged today as scientists described the relentless spread of herbicide - resistant menaces like pigweed and horseweed that shrug off powerful herbicides and have forced farmers in some areas to return to the hand - held hoes that were a mainstay of weed control a century ago.

So the team looked at the genetic sequences of related pigweeds, to see if they had the repeat in the right place, and found that most did not.

Amaranthus retroflexus, a common and thorny pigweed is found throughout much of the US.

The main weed pressure in this study comes from yellow foxtail and red root pigweed.

Its aliases «pigweed» and «little hogweed» convey that people in the United States treat it like a nuisance, though Europeans, South Americans, Middle Easterners, and Asians have been eating it for millennia.

The list of allergens includes — but is not limited to — latex, gold, pollen (ragweed, cockleweed and pigweed are especially bad), penicillin, insect venom, peanuts, papayas, jellyfish stings, perfume, eggs, the feces of house mites, pecans, salmon, beef and nickel.

Rather, the battle involves nightmares like Palmer amaranth pigweed, which has been termed the master blueprint for the perfect weed.

Pigweed, ragweed and other monsters have begun to outsmart the advanced technologies that protect the biggest U.S. cash crops

«It can be difficult for the untrained eye to tell the difference between the pigweed species Palmer amaranth and waterhemp, but using hyperspectral, we can look at the spectral waves for differences; a wide band in the water region may indicate one over another,» Bagavathiannan said.

If not killed early, pigweed — also called Palmer amaranth — can grow as tall as a small shade tree in fields, gobble nutrients away from cotton plants, steal yields and in severe cases make harvest difficult or impossible.

You'll find these aminos in nuts, seeds, and dark leafy greens — sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, Brazil nuts, sesame seeds, wild edible greens (lamb's - quarter, pigweed, purslane), spinach, oats, barley, and other whole grains, beans, and lentils.

Depending on the area of North America, these weeds include ragweed, sagebrush, pigweed, tumbleweed (Russian thistle) and cocklebur.

Many plants cause kidney damage, including caladium, pigweed, dieffenbachia, Easter lily, and philodendron.

Whether his subject is parsnips, pigweed, immortality, irises, green burial, buzzards, or compound interest, Logsdon generously applies as much heart and wit to his words as he does care and expertise to his fields.

Happy as a pigweed in GMOs.