Bees will fly about only in good weather, so if your crop blooms on a rainy day, too bad.
Even crops in blooming or growth stages, where the edible part may not have touched floodwaters, may be in jeopardy.
During the dry season, the sierra is parched; when the rains come, it bursts into life long enough for a poppy crop to bloom, leaving behind fields of round green pods heavy with narcotic milk.
Here, the seasons are often referred to by the cycles of the tobacco crops (planting, blooming, cutting and curing), the chickens run free and many of the mobile homes appear to have surrendered to gravity and slumped into the hillsides.
By J. S. Brown and St. Clair McKelway The New Yorker, May 28 , 1955P. 23 As spring plunges toward the start of summer, & the vegetable kingdom, hellbent for harvest, makes a spectacle of itself, a fine crop of blooming young ladies, all members of the animal kingdom, are running in an abandoned fashion for the title of Miss Network Difficulty.
Verma, a mechanical engineer from Kolkata who worked at General Motors and McKinsey before founding Lanworth, assembled a colorful crowd to inventory corn and soy crops before they bloom.
Bombus terrestris used the different habitat types differently during different parts of the growing season: arable fields were important early in the season, leys late in the season, and small non-arable habitat fragments during the mid-season when no mass-flowering crops were in bloom.
Full of pity, one phoenix flew north to help, and soon flowers bloomed, crops thrived, and a city came into being.
The plant is grown and harvested according to 16-week cycles, and we had apparently just missed our chance of catching the crop in full bloom.
