Sentences with phrase «start planting your crop»

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When crops genetically modified to express the Bt protein started hitting the market, the anti-GMO activists, including Greenpeace, claimed that the plant produced too much Bt and that it could be harmful to people.

Demand for distillate is going to stay strong as this stupid winter weather hangs on and farmers start to get their tiller, planters and tractors filled up as they prepare to plant our nation's crop.

It was July when I began planting, so I started with a winter crop of carrots, radishes, spring onion, iceberg lettuce, bok choy, celery, broccoli, strawberries, parsley and coriander.

The two farmers who decided to start growing teff, Fraser McNaul and his father, Shane McNaul, planted two varieties of the crop, brown and ivory teff.

We just planted a strawberry patch last year in the back yard so I'm pinning these to use when we start getting a bumper crop.

It is finally starting to warm up enough for my to plant the spring crops in my garden.

LONDON — One of the driest spring seasons on record in northern Europe has sucked soils dry and sharply reduced river levels to the point that governments are starting to fear crop losses and France, in particular, is bracing for blackouts as its river - cooled nuclear power plants may be forced to shut down.

«By understanding how plants have adapted to different climates, it will give us a head start in breeding crops able to cope with global warming.»

According to plant scientists from the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), growing potatoes in a lab situation was a very good idea, but bringing along just a few ounces of bean seeds — called Pulses — on the mission would be a better plan to start any emergency garden.

Leading the charge of GR2.0 and 3.0 will be a crop of vibrant and intelligent young scientists in league with IRRI through the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) and spread out across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, «many of whom are attending their first International Rice Congress now,» said Zeigler, himself a plant pathologist who started young working on various crop staples.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

As spring ended, and summer came on, crops were fully planted and money was tight — as September / October arrived, it was always v touch - and - go for a while, but then money started sloshing» round the economy as harvesting was completed.

Planting, growing and harvesting crops is essential to maintaining a prosperous livelihood, as well as caring for livestock and starting a family.

You'll start with a broken - down farm and begin restoring the land, planting crops and... well, battling mystical animals against other trainers.

Eric «ConcernedApe» Barone, the man behind the hit indie farming simulator Stardew Valley, has officially nailed down the exact day on which Mac and Linux users will be able to start planting their own crops and making nice with the local townsfolk.

While many standard garden vegetables can not be planted outside or started from seed until the soil is fully warmed and the threat of frost is past, a variety of other cool season spring crops can be started right now, giving you a jump start on the gardening season and putting food on your plate long before the summer vegetables come in.

They provide a starting point for understanding what grows where and for informing decisions about tourist destinations, other business opportunities, and crops to plant.

According to the Post and Courier, last week plant disease inspectors started going door to door in downtown Charleston, looking at backyard orange and lemon trees for signs of a disease that could wipe out the nation's citrus crop if it gets out of the city.

Apples, hay and blueberries are the top of the crops and aquaculture (the farming of aquatic organisms such as molluscs, aquatic plants and crustaceans) is starting to gain value in importance and has a positive impact on the region in terms of monetary gain.

Cool crops start out strong, growing quickly, and then slow their growth as days become shorter and cooler, according to the gardening experts at Bonnie Plants, which sells vegetable transplants at garden centers nationwide.

Fall to me signifies the start of new growth, from my boys starting school again, the crisp weather & crops being harvested for the start of next planting.

Get your vegetable garden going, plant out early crop potatoes, onion and shallot sets and start sowing early salad crops, brassicas, beets and broad beans in the greenhouse or sunny window sills.