In water retting, the most widely practiced method, bundles of stalks are submerged in water.
But hidden behind the rows of stalks are piles of steel girders.
Iraq's ancient marshes are now marked by large swaths of stalks and caked mud.
Both have small flowers on graceful spires of stalks that look like a puff of smoke.
Coarsely chop the rest of stalks, leaving 12 or 16 of the flower ends whole.
The harvesters had to deal with hundreds of stalks that had dared to poke through the ground.
But realistically, a couple of stalks with your starter on the night in question won't make a huge difference.
They produce tens of thousands of stalks, and the spores that cap them blow away in the wind.
(Once corn kernels and sugar-cane sap have been taken away for sugar, they leave plenty of stalks and leaves behind).
("She liked the rustling of stalks, a shimmer sound that created a trance," Adams writes of Mary's trek through the border region of northwestern Iran).
In the gymnosperms, the seeds occur individually, exposed at the ends of stalks, sometimes in whorls on an axis, or on the scales of a cone, or megastrobilus.
