Sentences with phrase «planting season early»

Farms started planting season early, according to the Federal Reserve's beige book report, which examines economic conditions around the country.

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Their plantings changed with the seasons: early primroses and pansies, spring bulbs, summer annuals, fall displays of berries and chrysanthemums, winter pots crammed with pine I branches and the well - placed artificial but discreet hellebore blossom.
One of the plus - sides to planting acorn squash seeds a season early is that you end up with quite a few squashes just as summer is coming to a close!
Untreated manure of all types has the potential to pose a food safety risk, and farmers, organic and conventional alike, have traditionally mitigated this risk by applying manure to their fields early in the season before they have planted the crop.
Help prevent losses by partially shading plants with muslin tents or by other means early in the season.
The plant growth habit of «NuMex Piñata» is smaller and tends to decline earlier in the season due to the lack of chlorophyll produced by the foliage.
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However, experiments have shown that plants started early can achieve fruiting in one season.
Control insects early in the season because many of them transmit virus and bacterial disease to healthy plants.
Most MLB championship visits to the White House happen during the next season, but the seeds were planted for an earlier visit back in November.
Corn farmers in Minnesota and across the northern Corn Belt often must plant in cold, damp spring soils that can slow early season growth.
Seed treatments for row crops, such as corn, cotton or soybean, target early - season pests that are in the soil when the seed is planted.
According to David Mortensen, professor of weed and applied plant ecology, Penn State, synthetic - auxin herbicides are usually used early in the growing season, but with the new transgenic crop varieties coming on the market, these herbicides will be used later when temperatures are warmer and more plant species are leafed out.
In effect, the plants had shifted to flowering a few days earlier to take full advantage of the short «wet» season in dry years.
Research led by Eric Post, a professor of biology at Penn State University, has linked an increasingly earlier plant growing season to the melting of arctic sea ice, a relationship that has consequences for offspring production by caribou in the area.
Post added that, as his observations have continued, the data have revealed an increasingly earlier start to the plant growing season, a change that has not been matched by correspondingly earlier calving by caribou in the area.
I personally use compost tea earlier in the growing season when plants are establishing and taper off before harvest.
White tea comes from the same plant as green tea, but is picked earlier in the season while the leaves are not fully opened and covered in fine white hair.
Organizing the selected plants by their growing season — either early, mid or late — the authors suggest a brilliant array of ways to alchemize their various parts.
During the planting season in early May, archeologist Antonio Benavides noticed that the setting sun illuminates a stucco mask hanging one of the pyramid's rooms.
Earlier in the season we visited the newly - planted Monocot Garden.
«Earlier spring advancement is observed in many plant species, and the pollen season starts earlier and is longer.Earlier spring advancement is observed in many plant species, and the pollen season starts earlier and is longer.earlier and is longer.»
Late onset and early winter ending will reduce the length of growing season for crops which will complete their biological life quickly causing reduction in yields as plants will gain accelerated maturity without reaching proper height and size.
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As the onset of spring is happening earlier each year, animal and plant species are responding to the shift in seasons.
«Plants face an evolutionary tradeoff between the benefit of earlier leaf emergence, and hence, a longer growing season, and the risk of tissue damage from a false spring,» Allstadt explained.
Farmers in temperate zones all over the world already know that the planting season is coming weeks and months earlier than it used to — they would benefit from knowing how this change is going to pan out, and they will get far better answers when people stop muddying the waters by promoting obfuscatory nonsense from the same professional liars that spent years trying to delay anti-tobacco legislation.
Increased weed and pest pressure associated with longer growing seasons and warmer winters will be an increasingly important challenge; there are already examples of earlier arrival and increased populations of some insect pests such as corn earworm.64 Furthermore, many of the most aggressive weeds, such as kudzu, benefit more than crop plants from higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, and become more resistant to herbicide control.72 Many weeds respond better than most cash crops to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, particularly «invasive» weeds with the so - called C3 photosynthetic pathway, and with rapid and expansive growth patterns, including large allocations of below - ground biomass, such as roots.73 Research also suggests that glyphosate (for example, Roundup), the most widely - used herbicide in the United States, loses its efficacy on weeds grown at the increased carbon dioxide levels likely to occur in the coming decades.74 To date, all weed / crop competition studies where the photosynthetic pathway is the same for both species favor weed growth over crop growth as carbon dioxide is increased.72
An earlier growing season can also increase water stress while leaving plants more vulnerable to frost damage after starting growth too soon.
Biologists found plants that provide food for caribou calves in Greenland were starting their growing seasons earlier, due to a rise in temperatures linked to melting Arctic sea ice.
While winemakers can use predictions to get ready for the season by foregoing early irrigation, using smaller plants, and change sprinkler frequency, it can be scary because farming is part luck.
And it begins early in life in the experience of nature mediated by perceptive and caring adults to validate the child's fascination with bugs, animals, trees, rocks, plants, water, seasons, and landscapes.
All our farmers recognize the changes — they're planting longer seasons and more varieties, they're planting earlier, there's changing in the mean freeze date and an extended growing season.
Carrots I'll plant a crop of carrots early in the season with my tomatoes before the tomatoes take off.
Would warmed nighttime temperatures allow them to plant the crop earlier in the season?
Remove spent plants, like early planted beans, cucumbers or lettuce, since they're pretty much done for the season and can harbor pests.
20 little things... making soups baking bread to eat with the soup wearing my long turtle neck flannel dress at night and in the early morning too season tickets for the theater working on a special xmas present for my children the turning of autumn leaves simmering dinner in the slow cooker going back to art classes lighting candles in the morning and the evening too knitting soft soft scarves wearing them making quince jelly watching videos on rainy weekends making scorched corn pudding for Thanksgiving cutting and drying hydrangeas clearing the garden for winter planting tulips wearing thick socks on cold nights eating the jam I made in summer
As bees are active from early spring to early winter, create a bee - friendly garden that has plants that flower at different times during the season.
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