Sentences with phrase «weed seeds»

This heat tends to kill weed seeds and disease organisms, but probably will not work in cooler parts of the pile.

Cover the bed with straw or something that will allow water and air to move through the barrier, yet keep weed seeds from blowing in.

Every inch of soil contains weed seeds, but only those closest to the surface receive enough light to grow.

Mulch the soil to prevent water evaporation, maintain an even, cool soil temperature and prevent the germination of weed seeds.

Hemp fits well into a diverse organic crop rotation and it's high biomass and canopy production has the potential to shade out weeds resulting in lower weed seed germination and growth.

Our mower is a mulching mower, and the theory is that the mower will destroy weed seeds and chop the grass and weeds so finely they would decompose and quickly act as fertilizer.

However, frequent soil cultivation decreases soil health and disrupts the ecological system; increases fuel and labor costs, and brings buried weed seeds to the soil surface.

Temperatures in excess of 125 degrees will kill soil - borne pests, including pathogens, nematodes, insects, and weed seeds up to four inches below the soil surface, but it takes four to six weeks of very sunny weather to eliminate disease - causing organisms at greater depths.

An Australian farmer invents a device which kills viable weed seeds by 95 per cent, reducing the need for herbicides.

Flooding the field to 10» will drown weed seeds but stress the rice.

Tip: Try to avoid buying the red seeds, because these are the immature chia seeds, or black seeds that are smaller than regular chia seeds, which are called weed seeds

They also are turning to herbicides that have residual activity in the soil, preventing weed seeds from growing into a new generation of weeds.

Growers may even want to adopt stale seedbed techniques and allow weed seeds to germinate so they can be treated prior to planting crops.

Screening and aspiration are used to remove weed seeds, non-oat grains, and loose (unattached) hulls from the oats.

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Corn gluten applied early in spring is another chemical - free alternative to pre-emergent herbicides that kill germinating weed seeds.

Distributing this type of product on your lawn before weed seeds begin to germinate is key to cutting back on crabgrass, dandelions and other unwanted weeds throughout the year.

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We placed boards in between the tree trunks for counters and shelves and made mud pies, sometimes borrowing an egg from the chicken house to make the mud pies shiny, and decorating the tops with weed seeds.

Keep in mind, however, that chunky mulch allows some light in and certain mulch is full of weed seeds, so make your selection carefully.

When composting crop residues, manures or other agricultural wastes, it's necessary to achieve temperatures above 131 °F for a defined period of time in order to kill weed seeds and human pathogens.

The assumption is that temperatures will remain above 130 - degrees F long enough to kill pathogens and weed seeds and give... Continued

The National Organic Program (NOP) offers guidelines for composting to eliminate pathogens and weed seeds.

When you're buying chia, both the white and black seeds are good choices, but Coates warns to make sure you're getting a good quality product by avoiding either red seeds (immature chia seeds), or black seeds that are smaller than regular chia seeds (weed seeds).

John H. Schulz, a resource scientist at the Missouri Department of Conservation, has calculated that as many as 15 million mourning doves are killed in North America each year from lead poisoning, mostly from eating spent lead shot that looks like the weed seed they depend on for food.

I brushed myself off, picked off as many of the weed seeds as I could and continued along the road.

To kill weed seeds the compost must be heated to 60º centigrade, either by heating it in an oven or steaming it.

Family Farmers: The farms and community will benefit from free manure processing which will nearly eliminate odor, kill weed seeds, and reduce bad bacteria levels.

This will ensure no light and no weed seeds infiltrate your soil.