Sentence examples for leafy growth from inspiring English sources

An extra heavy dose of nutrients may encourage leafy growth and discourage flowering.

Use foliar sprays of liquid seaweed rather than high-nitrogen fertilizers that encourage leafy growth attractive to aphids.

In their first year they put down roots and leafy growth, often in the form of a rosette of leaves.

For sage, rosemary, and lavender, you can safely cut 25% of leafy growth and 10% of woody growth at any one time.

Most plant food is based on nitrogen, essential for leafy growth, phosphorus for healthy roots and shoots, and potassium to promote flowering and fruiting.

Planting them right now, however, causes plants to direct energies into leafy growth in order to stockpile energy to flower and seed next year, making for larger, lusher, tastier harvests.

Like farmyard manure, they add organic matter to the soil via their leafy top growth.

Study objectives were to determine relationships of some edaphic factors and host plant conditions with biological control activity, and to screen rhizobacteria isolated from Euphorbia spp. for traits that might contribute to suppression of leafy spurge growth.

These plants, as indicated earlier, often must experience cold, either as seeds or as young plants, before they can begin flower production; otherwise they undergo an excessively long period of leafy, or vegetative, growth.

However, correlation between the length of leafy period and height growth among different hybrid aspen genotypes after latitudinal transfer has not been reported previously.

PAH can also enter the food supply and can be introduced by either food preparation or food processing, e.g., barbecuing and smoking of food, etc. or by the growth of leafy plants and vegetables in PAH-contaminated soil.