Sentence examples for nursing crop from inspiring English sources

For this meadow, he used eight different seed mixes with approximately 25 plants or grasses in each, he said, including a "nursing" crop of annual oat or winter wheat grass added to the mix to keep seedlings from being choked by aggressive weeds.

They were often sown with alfalfa as a "nurse crop" to provide some cover for alfalfa seedlings back when alfalfa was also a common sight.

Grasses are considered as a nurse crop for an early vegetation purpose.

However, the mixtures of Acacia hybrid and H. odorata in Vietnam (Stand 3, Table 1) included two different nurse crop designs.

The majority of stands were established without a nurse crop as described by Bergin and Gea ([2007]), or over-storey species.

Indeed, many plants are very good companions and literally facilitate each other [ 5, 6] by improving growth [ 7], fixing nitrogen [ 8], nurse cropping [ 9], controlling pests [ 10] or attracting beneficial organisms such as insects [ 11] or mycorrhizae [ 12, 13].

Mr. Bunger has farmed around here for much of his life, growing up in rural Nebraska, nursing his crops of soybeans, corn and wheat each season.

Furthermore, chipping achieved a break even with smaller trees than firewood production, allowing for financially viable early thinning, timely performed before the nurse trees overtop the crop trees.

It's a lament for those who would eschew the lame crop of sexy nurses for a more thoughtful celebration.

A third spoke shamefully of his bout with C.difficile, a potentially fatal hospital-acquired diarrheal infection that usually crops up in nursing home residents, AIDS patients and people on long-term antibiotics.

Crops would be harvested and nursing homes cleaned it would just cost more.