«Our results indicate that providing supplemental lighting from LEDs or high - pressure sodium lamps has a positive influence on seedling root dry mass, height, and stem caliper leading to high -
quality bedding plant seedlings when solar light is limited,» Lopez and Randall noted.
Not exact matches
Growers of annual
bedding plant seedlings or plugs work to produce compact, fully rooted transplants with a large stem diameter and high root dry mass —
qualities that make seedlings less susceptible to damage during shipping and transplant.
10 or 15 years ago, the city of Tacoma was running a small power
plant that had been converted to burn a mixture of pulverized coal, hog fuel (lumber waste that was too low
quality to make paper from) and RDF (refuse derived fuel, basically the lightweight plastic and paper shreds from garbage that would rise up and over in an air separator) in a fluidized
bed combustor.
Making your
planting beds pop can cost as little as $ 2 a bag ($ 19 per cubic yard) or as much as $ 7 per bag ($ 47 per cubic yard) depending on the
quality and type of mulch.
Besides compensating for the poor soil
quality in my space — that large maple sucks up most of the water and nutrients, starving off all other
plants near by — raised
beds also help keep the neighbour's dog out.