Sentences with phrase «plants after the rain»

Go out into a meadow some time and see if you can find any «dirt» on plants after it rains.

Use this water to water plants after rain ends.

Not exact matches

Men planted mushrooms in our sky, she says, with much white boiling of thunder - and seeds, many seeds that rained down here and here and here and, after time, grew up into children.

The scientists studied crops at a Tokyo research field, including cabbages and potatoes that were planted a few weeks after rains showered the field with radioisotopes from Fukushima.

Did You Know... NOT DIRT: Installers rarely use soil for the growing medium because it is heavy and because it packs tight after repeated rains, reducing water retention and aeration for plant roots.

These natural organic matter contaminants can affect the performance of direct filtration plants, reducing their capacity after heavy rain.

After breakfast, board our guided tour boat for a half - day journey through further canals and lagoons, and along the spectacular seashore — all within the diverse habitats of Tortuguero, where Caribbean sunshine and tropical rains give rise to an incredible profusion of plant and animal life.

«We noticed higher levels of these insecticides after rain storms during crop planting,» Hladik says.

After recent rain the Daintree Valley is alive with butterflies - these are huge Ulysses butterflies on the Pagoda plant outside the kitchen.

After the machinery has long gone, the soil settles in place, and the plants begin to grow, we will soon lose sight of the jute fabric, large rain events will leave their imprint upon the landscape, and the plants and animals will begin to make their own impact upon the site.

(Nitrogen is a big problem in native plant areas because it's one of the limiting nutrients, and when it's supplied whether by fertilizer or grazing animals or rainfall, that tips the balance toward European and Asian annual grasses that are very shallow - rooted — they steal every drop of rain that falls, and then burn by midsummer when the N. American native perennials are just setting seed; after a few years the deep - rooted perennials are gone; after a few more years so is the topsoil).

Native New Yorkers know not to swim on Coney Island after a rain because of the sewage polluted storm water runoff, but if more people put out plants and grow green roofs, that might change.

Synonym: Cooperia pedunculata + + + + Preferred habitat: pastures, prairies, woodlands + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: sometimes evergreen + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay + + + + Light conditions: partial shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 6 to 12 inches + + + + Wildlife value: nectar source + + + + Note: do not be disappointed if they bloom sporadically after rains - that is their nature