Sentences with phrase «plant fertilizers in»

I swear by this plant fertilizer in my containers to give them a little boost.

I swear by this plant fertilizer in my containers to give them a little boost.

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In tests the team conducted, the EcoScraps soil grew plants as large as or larger than plants grown in soils using chemical fertilizerIn tests the team conducted, the EcoScraps soil grew plants as large as or larger than plants grown in soils using chemical fertilizerin soils using chemical fertilizers.

Of course, there's also the growth systems, irrigation controls, lights and piping, fertilizers, hydroponics, hothouse supplies, all the things involved in farming and harvesting, and even oil extraction — everything except the seeds and plants.

Not only will they have a dramatic effect on the mood and productivity of your employees, as well as on overall aesthetic impression in your offices, but plant waste can be used as an organic fertilizer.

Heme also exists in the roots of plants like legumes that turn nitrogen into fertilizer.

Before you do, consider how much sh!t is in their lives... If there is not a lot of fertilizer getting tossed around, you might have trouble finding good fertile ground in which to plant the seed of Scripture.

His reasons were to avoid phytophthora, a fungus that thrives in wet soil and attacks the plants» roots, and to apply measured amounts of water and fertilizer.

What was not expected was that subsequent generations of flax plants would be large like their parents, even in the absence of the fertilizer.

Approximately 25 to 30 days after planting, and thereafter as needed, weeds and invasive plants are removed, or mixed with the soil as fertilizer, by mechanical means or, in extreme cases, by hand.

The Association of American Plant Food Control Officials (AAPFCO) publishes standards for heavy metal contamination in fertilizers that many state fertilizer boards have adopted.

She then started «growing fertilizer» by planting avocado trees that provide shade for delicate coffee bushes, organic nutrients for the soil (the fallen leaves that now carpet much of the farm), and extra income for the family when the fruits are in season.

Unshaded coffee plants grown with fertilizer yield the most coffee, although unfertilized shaded crops generally yield more than unfertilized unshaded crops: the response to fertilizer is much greater in full sun.

And in the rush to increase production, it caused a shift from traditional, sustainable coffee growing methods (with coffee plants grown in the shade of diverse native trees) to intense monocultures that require large inputs of fertilizer and pesticides which bring about a loss in biodiversity and quickly deplete the land.

Chemically intensive farming methods can produce short - term benefits for farmers, but they result in the degradation of soil over time, increasing the susceptibility of plants to pests and diseases and requiring ever greater applications of fertilizer in the long - run.

The huge worldwide surge in demand for coffee has resulted in a shift from traditional, sustainable coffee growing methods (with coffee plants grown in the shade of a diverse understory) to intense monocultures that require large inputs of fertilizer and pesticides which bring about a loss in biodiversity and quickly deplete the land.

The Welsh, many of whom are fiercely nationalistic, have a peculiar blind spot, a chronic inability to understand how a stretch of river that passes through one of their own villages can conceivably belong, let us say, to the vice-president of a chemical fertilizer plant in Manchester.

I also want to send my prayers and condolences to those in Texas that were affected by the fertilizer plant explosion.

We recycle, use cloth diapers, menstrual cup and mama cloth, only cloth to clean (no paper towels) essential oils to make cleaners, we used to compost, but we never got it «right», we garden and plant bee friendly flowers, no chemicals in our fertilizers.

«Agricultural practices» shall mean all activities conducted by a farmer on a farm to produce agricultural products and which are inherent and necessary to the operation of a farm including, but not limited to, the collection, transportation, distribution, storage and land application of animal wastes; storage, transportation and use of equipment for tillage, planting, harvesting, irrigation, fertilization and pesticide application; storage and use of legally permitted fertilizers, limes and pesticides all in accordance with local, state and federal law and regulations and in accordance with manufacturers» instructions and warnings; storage, use and application of animal feed and foodstuffs; construction and use of farm structures and facilities for the storage of animal wastes, farm equipment, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural products and livestock, for the processing of animal wastes and agricultural products, for the sale of agricultural products, and for the use of farm labor, as permitted by local and state building codes and regulations; including construction and maintenance of fences and lanes; «Agricultural products» shall mean those products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law; «Farm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural products;

He mentioned the Free Seedlings Distribution programme which provides early bearing and high yielding planting materials to farmers at no cost, the Free Fertilizer Distribution Programme which is helping to improve upon soil fertility and increase yield, the National Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme which has facilitated the replanting of large hectares of over-aged, moribund and diseased farms as well as the Youth in Cocoa Initiative which is curbing the ageing - cocoa - farmers situation in Ghana.

The Asogli Fertilizer Blending Plant is to help revive farming in the Volta Region and provide timely and affordable fertilizer to farmers in Volta, Eastern, Ashanti and Brong AhafFertilizer Blending Plant is to help revive farming in the Volta Region and provide timely and affordable fertilizer to farmers in Volta, Eastern, Ashanti and Brong Ahaffertilizer to farmers in Volta, Eastern, Ashanti and Brong Ahafo Regions.

If tobacco growers are using fertilizer on their plants, it obviously works, even though it is made from uranium - rich phosphate rock and results in polonium 210 — a decay product of uranium — being inhaled with cigarette smoke.

For instance, Buckley notes, on one computer simulation for 4th graders of plants growing in a greenhouse, kids could move the plants around and identify, based on growth patterns, which were sun - versus shade - loving plants, and which fertilizer application rate proved most effective.

At the end of their useful lives, they would be converted in thermal depolymerization machines into short - chain fuels, fertilizers, and industrial raw materials, ready for plants or people to convert them back into long chains again.

Tests on tomato and pepper plants conducted by Joseph Kloepper, professor of plant pathology at Auburn University in Alabama, confirmed the fertilizer's potency.

The study was designed to determine the impact of two organically approved liquid fertilizer sources applied through fertigation on plant growth, yield, fruit quality, and soil and plant tissue nutrient status of «Marion» and «Black Diamond» blackberry grown in an organic production system.

We humans emitted 35.9 metric gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2014, mostly from burning coal and natural gas in power plants, making fertilizer and cement, and other industrial processes.

She's particularly interested in the effects of soil type and fertilizer on the plant's ability to reproduce.

Gentry added that the researchers hypothesize that corn yields can be further increased in a sustainable way, even beyond the results demonstrated in this study, with continued crop breeding efforts, advancements in fertilizer formulations and placement technology, and possibly, with the development of effective plant growth promoters, she said.

One way farmers in these colder regions deal with the problem is to apply starter fertilizer directly to their corn seed at planting.

They can also place the fertilizer deeper in the soil, where plants can access it more easily.

Few projects in plant biotechnology are harder, or promise a greater payoff, than enabling crops to make their own nitrogen fertilizer.

And, for now, farmers have to laboriously supply it by applying fertilizer or planting legumes, which host nitrogen - fixing bacteria in their roots.

The China Agricultural University researchers studied the increased nitrogen uptake in plants that received no nitrogen fertilizer to drive home their point that «all these changes can be linked to a common driving factor, strong economic growth.»

In this way, they are deposited farther from the original plant (along with a little bit of fresh fertilizer) and can grow into a new plant.

In the past, some people have argued that the increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air would be partially offset by an increase in plant growth, caused by that additional (CO2): increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere should work like extra fertilizer and lead to increased plant growtIn the past, some people have argued that the increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air would be partially offset by an increase in plant growth, caused by that additional (CO2): increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere should work like extra fertilizer and lead to increased plant growtin carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air would be partially offset by an increase in plant growth, caused by that additional (CO2): increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere should work like extra fertilizer and lead to increased plant growtin the air would be partially offset by an increase in plant growth, caused by that additional (CO2): increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere should work like extra fertilizer and lead to increased plant growtin plant growth, caused by that additional (CO2): increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere should work like extra fertilizer and lead to increased plant growtin the atmosphere should work like extra fertilizer and lead to increased plant growth.

Its tall, gangly, inefficient architecture makes it an environmental laggard among plants, one that sucks up water and fertilizer while leaching out gobs of nutrients that run off in rainfall, polluting surface waters from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico.

«Many impacts respond directly to changes in global temperature, regardless of the sensitivity of the planet to human emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases,» says geoscientist Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, a co-author of the report, excluding effects such as ocean acidification and CO2 as a fertilizer for plants.

Although the complete transformation of soil ingredients into true terra preta may take several years, soil scientists have shown that the mixture can have immediate benefits when added to nutrient - poor soils.Experiments outside of Manaus have shown that the yield in plots treated with charcoal and fertilizer (which contains plant nutrients), a mix similar in composition to terra preta, was double the yield of plots treated with fertilizer alone.

A new study suggests that in carbon - dioxide - rich environments, plants given the nitrate fertilizers widely used today will grow slower and make less protein than plants fertilized with ammonium.

An increasing number of sewage treatment plants were built and the use of fertilizers in agriculture declined.

The plants provide their insect partners with shelter and a supply of nectar, while the ants return the favor by serving as a source of fertilizer — in the form of fecal matter.

The technique, dubbed «aquaponics,» integrates fish farming and hydroponic agriculture in a sort of closed, symbiotic loop — the fish serve as fertilizer factories, the plants as water purifiers.

In fact, had scientists not created synthetic, mostly natural - gas - based fertilizer decades ago to improve nature's method of «fixing» nitrogen — a process of breaking nitrogen molecules apart to make them available to plants — neither you nor I, nor most of the 7 billion people crowding the planet, would be here today.

Between 1984 and 2006, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration reported 224 accidents, resulting in 50 fatalities, at ammonia plants around the U.S., and ammonia - based fertilizers and explosives were involved in a variety of intentional attacks, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

Using conventional breeding techniques, Borlaug's crucial breakthrough was crossing stubby - stalked dwarf wheat with high - yielding varieties, resulting in a plant that was both extremely productive — when given ample fertilizer — and strong enough to hold up under the weight of large clusters of grain.

No ammonia plants — which produce 90 percent of the fertilizer used worldwide — have broken ground in the U.S. in more than 20 years.

While most fertilizer nitrogen ends up in plants, plenty sits in the soil for decades.

Over the 30 - year study, the researchers measured the amount of N - 15 labelled fertilizer N taken up by plants and they quantified the amount of fertilizer N remaining in the soil.