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Sentence Examples Four seeds were sown per pot and thinned to a single plant nearest the center. Two seeds were sown into each pot and thinned down after emergence to standardize initial seedling size. Three seeds were sown and plants thinned to one per pot when the first trifoliate leaf emerged. Replicates of 16 seeds were sown on the sand surface or at a depth of 10 mm in short pots. When, in 1809, Finland became a grand duchy of the tsarist empire, the first seeds of national self-consciousness were sown. When the season suits, October is the principal time of putting in the winter wheat, which is usually pickled, and sown broadcast. New lawns can be sown or turfed this month but leave it until autumn once June comes around. Being monocarpic, it dies after flowering but the seeds can be collected and sown every year. A few turnip seeds sown now for Summer and Fall, reserving for a larger planting in late July for winter storage, is a good rule to follow. In undersowing, the seed is usually placed on top of the soil surface so as not to damage the already sown crop with a tool. The seeds were sown, germinated and grown in the polytunnel for approximately three weeks on average. However, the seeds of this change were sown much earlier, in the transition from peasant polyculture to specialized small farming. The Council was a path-breaker and the seeds of the consumer movement had just been sown in the mid-Eighties. However, the grain is generally sown broadcast, the soil here being poorer, and the cost of labour high. But the pious man's grain, which had been sown in the second half of Heshvan, was saved. It said the recent rainfall will benefit paddy and other crops already planted or sown and will also facilitate sowing in unsown areas. Antique beads and braiding were sown on to jersey tops and distressed lace was used to create a patchwork feel on dresses. Children can look out for other large tree seeds such as beech masts and acorns which can be sown in the same way as the conkers. In the early days of the industry, that aspect was quite labour intensive as the seed was sown by hand into fertilized drills. Holes were made with a 10-mm-diameter dibber and seed was sown before each hole was back-filled with soil and the surface firmed. Show More Sentences Having sown the wind of ignorant opposition, he and his government reap the whirlwind. As with so many good ideas in this little country of ours the seeds were sown over a couple of pints in a local public house. Having just sown Kuttinger and Nantes carrot seeds on my plot, this is top of my agenda for the coming weeks. Species are propagated by seed collected fresh and sown immediately in trays placed in a cold frame. Once the seeds are sown, May waters the pot with a mister and puts it in a propagator with bottom heat. Zimbabwe is reaping a bitter harvest sown by a previous health minister, who declared there was no connection between HIV and Aids. I stripped sown to my bathing suit and ran towards the lake but I stopped suddenly at the edge. Seeds were collected from individual plants and sown on moist soil, stratified for 4 days, and grown for 4 weeks. If those working on it can work together, the seeds sown to date can yield a bountiful harvest. Over the last few decades, western civilisations have busily sown the seeds of their own destruction. Spring sown crops of corn are looking promising, with their straight green rows, and potatoes are being planted as fast as everyone can manage. Seeds sown in February that have germinated and formed their first true leaves will need pricking out into small pots. Farmers fear huge losses as cracks have surfaced in the fields where paddy was sown recently. Mines can be sown in deep water, and are propelled at high speed towards a target, like a miniature homing torpedo. The British estimate that some 25,000 land mines, mostly sown by Argentine forces in the 1982 war with Britain, remain. Annual cover crops such as vetch, triticale, rye, winter wheat or Austrian winter peas should be sown in mid-September. The Fed knows that its previous policy of easy money has sown the seeds of increased inflation. Rocket can be successively sown to provide a leafy injection of pepper to your salads and is ideal for a partially shaded spot. Also, the field should be watched for several days to prevent pigeons, which are remarkably fond of tares, from devouring much of the sown seed. Another mustardy taste sensation is provided by the Japanese daikon, or white radish, which can be sown in both Spring and Autumn in this area. Show More Sentences It is easy to keep and breed in the laboratory, living happily in petri dishes that have been sown with lawns of Escherichia coli bacteria. In order to have a fruitful crop, first there must be rich, fertile soil, and then whatever is sown will not be wasted. Autumn sown grass is occasionally attacked by the stem-boring maggots of frit flies. For good luck the umbilical cord was sown into a small hide pouch and attached to the cradleboard. A couple of the beds will be given more attention, and fennel, mangels and sprouting broccoli sown in them. The drought has caused great harm to the growing of wheat in the province, with more than about 733,000 hectares of wheat land unable to be sown. Fast-growing annuals such as nasturtium, candytuft and pot marigold can still be sown. His father didn't win the seat, but the seed certainly was sown for the younger Campbell. I have purchased two grow bags and have sown the seeds of courgette, tomato and aubergine within them. There was a cause for happiness among the organisers because the seeds for self-employment were sown effectively. The new management need to get a few wins in the league for confidence and credibility, otherwise the seeds of doubt begin to be sown. When it became a grand duchy of the tsarist empire, the first seeds of national self-consciousness were sown. They are otherwise treated as annuals and a fresh crop is sown from seed yearly. Kale, mustard and turnips can be sown as edible winter cover crops that also can feed chickens or grazing animals in late winter. Trees and bush were often cleared from areas where grass was sown, he said. By mid 1843 matters had improved and many of the settlers had cattle, sown a crop and found time, money and labour to build substantial houses. Grass was sown and the soil was top-dressed but, in the cooler weather of autumn, growth was slow. However, food supply has deteriorated as fewer and fewer farmers exist and little or no grain crops are sown. In the field, crops are often sown in late winter or early spring, with risks of prolonged root chilling during vegetative growth. The seed should then be sown outdoors and the plants moved to their flowering positions in autumn if large enough or the following spring if not. Show More Sentences If sown now these will be ready for transplanting at the end of March when the climate is more benign. They, along with the self sown tradescantias, violets, hollyhocks and dame's rocket are part of the greater urban garden. Seeds were sown on 14 Apr. and the matured plants were harvested on 16 Aug. before the onset of flowering. The complexity of this debate has sown confusion among feminist human rights activists, undermining the effectiveness of the global feminist movement. World War II is still a long way off, but the seeds of conflict are already being sown on the continent. Fate and fortune, both good and ill, are sown by the whimsy of God. Seeds were surface-sterilized and sown on GM agar plates lacking sucrose. May you continue to reap all the good things that you have sown this year. We are now reaping a bitter harvest from that which was misguidedly sown, again and again, since 1955, and continues to be sown to this miserable day. The film, though set during the English Civil War, ignores conflicts between Cavaliers and Roundheads to dwell on the seedy lawlessness sown by the war. Although the ground remains too hard to sow direct, meaning the parsnips still aren't in, the aubergines were sown yesterday in soil blocks in the greenhouse. The seeds of Strub's activism were sown as a child, when he snuck out of the house to watch May Day riots in Iowa City. The press gets involved, the Twittersphere goes wild, and all the seeds of intractability are sown. And thus was sown a seed that may, however extraordinary it may seem, destroy the prime minister. For Khoury, the bigger threat has been the pro-regime mobs that have sown chaos around the city in the past week. A disappointing winter tour in Australia was followed by an indifferent start to the domestic season, and inevitably a seed of doubt had been sown in the public mind. Bacon had sown the good seed in a sluggish soil and an ungenial season. The motorway verges and embankments have been sown with wildflower seed which are now producing traditional meadow plants, including borage, primula and oxeye daisies. The dialogue is often artful, with sly suggestions that the seeds of various Shakespearean plots and themes were sown in the muck of their messy affair. Folks, we will reap what we have sown, and we have sown seeds of immorality and unrighteousness and we are reaping the havoc and consequences of our actions. Show More Sentences Down by the pool, sown among the large white rocks that were dug out of the hillside to accommodate it, are white valerians, more grasses, lavenders and sages. As a result, 14,313 acres of land were sown a second time around. Morocco, which has not signed the 1997 Ottawa Convention that bans anti-personnel mines, is believed to have sown about seven million mines in the region. The delighted Mughal emperor made him the Nawab of the Carnatic under the suzerainty of the Nizam of Hyderabad and thus were sown the beginnings of the House of Arcot. Ohsawa and Tsutsumi showed that the buckwheat plants sown in the early summer contained higher amounts of rutin than the plants sown in the late summer. His family are enormously proud of their dad and one of his daughters tells me that Willie is hale and hearty and had just sown a lawn with her the evening we spoke. Until 1780, Palladianism was the prevalent style in English architecture, both at home and in the colonies, the seeds having been sown in Piccadilly. Seed sown in early June has produced a swathe of greenery topped by the most attractive blue flowers that seem irresistible to bees, hoverflies and other insects. That was when the seeds of irreconcilable discord were sown between the prime minister and his advisors and the Kargil generals led by General Musharraf. The advent of the Second Empire in 1848 saw a full-blooded return, the seeds of which had been sown in the two previous decades, to the styles of earlier centuries. Collards are usually sown in the spring or early fall in the South, but in the North it may be advisable to plant in August. Genotype increases in coleoptile length improves stand establishment, vigour and grain yield of deep sown wheat. Pinch the growing tips out of sweet pea seedlings sown in October and move them to a cold frame. Initially, six seeds were sown per pot and later thinned to four plants when the first trifoliate leaves unfolded. Because they are sown by vine cuttings rather than seeds, sweet potatoes are relatively easy to plant. Today, tobacco is sown in cold frames or hotbeds, as their germination is activated by light. At the time of summer solstice, rice, millet, bosporum and sesamum are sown. The ard's shallow furrows are ideal for most cereals, and if the seed is sown broadcast, the ard can be used to cover the seed in rows. Since boats sown together is found dating back to this time and their form favors padeling or sailing. Other pasture mixes for cropping rotations include perennial grasses such as phalaris and cocksfoot, sown with either annual clovers or lucerne. Show More Sentences Deep social and political enmity was sown between the Reds and Whites and would last until the Winter War and beyond. If you have sown seeds in the spring, your plantlets should be ready for planting out now. He said those growers who had not sown spring corn, spring sunflower due to some reasons they could sow spring green gram till the end of March. In the Osirian Festival of Khoiak this mould was filled with soil and sown with seed, the sprouting plants implying life after death. All sorts of poppies can be sown in this way too, including the red corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas. All sorts of poppies can be sown this way too, including our red corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas. All sorts of poppies can be sown in this way too, including our red corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas. Because those men are silly, immature and have sown more seed than a rusty combine harvester. Genotypic increases in coleoptiles length improves stand establishment vigor and grain yield of deep sown wheat. Sully decides to face the truth of what his negligence has sown. I've seen many a poor bairn going to school, with patches sown on their britches. And fall plowing except on blowy soils also will be good for the spring sown crops. Seeds sown using a seed drill are distributed evenly and placed at the correct depth in the soil. That lina consisted of two widths of fine homespun linen cloth sown together and lined with fringe, hemstitch or lace. Stock up with seed of the salad onion 'White Lisbon', which can be sown in a glasshouse border or frame at the end of the month. Though eschscholzia, the Californian poppy, is usually broadcast randomly we're trying it sown directly into modules, one seed per compartment. The seeds may not be sown to the right depth nor the proper distance from one another. Rocket, lamb's lettuce, spinach and the glorious red lolla rossa can all be sown in the next couple of weeks for supplies long into autumn. The ground about was thick sown with caltrops, which very much incommoded the shoeless Moors. His vision for the future of the African continent in the Age of the Aerotropolis seems to be as a vast latifundium sown with GM wheat. Show More Sentences Try schizanthus, which is a beauty and grows easily from seed sown now with heat. The gaps can be filled in with hardy annuals like Californian and shirley poppies, love-in-a-mist, cornflowers and clarkias which can be sown where they are to flower. This can also be sown now to provide a late autumn catch crop of caulis. Little had been sown, so, despite average yields, hunger continued. It is useful for grassland ploughing and sets up the land for weathering by winter frosts, which reduces the time taken to prepare a seedbed for spring sown crops. The book is sown through with a vocabulary of adaptive organisms, fitness, punctuated equilibrium, replication and other concepts from evolutionary science. But the lord had since turned out all the people, and the whole place was in his own hands, while not half the quantity of corn was sown that formerly had been. Sudden sharp increase in cold has brought miseries for the peasants who have sown tomatoes, chilies, brinjals and other vegetables after harvesting paddy crop. Both French and runner bean seed can be sown either direct in the cropping position or, if preferred, into small pots of compost and placed in a greenhouse or cold frame. Before runner bean seed is sown in the garden or young plants are transplanted from their pots a suitable framework needs to be in place to height of around 6ft. First-year flowering perennials which can be sown early in heated propagators then grown on in a greenhouse or cool room include achillea, helenium, echinacea and salvia. There were two boxes for the seed, and these, with the coulters, were placed one set behind the other, so that two sorts of seed might be sown at the same time. The most obvious is that seeds that land outside the furrows will not have the growth shown by the plants sown in the furrow, since they are too shallow on the soil. A total of 2,250 pounds of seed mixture was sown and 5,260 trees, including Black Cherry, Persimmon, Button Bush, Gray Dogwood and Serviceberry, were planted. It took with it an area of sown wheatfield which remained sufficiently undamaged for the wheat to be harvested in 1840, when the slip was a popular visitor attraction. Some species deteriorate when stored and are best sown straight away. Examples from Classical Literature When medium red clover is sown for being plowed under as green manure, it is always sown with a nurse crop. After the ploughing, the seed is sown broadcast, and the field is then harrowed. It is usually sown in autumn with a little rye or winter oats, at the rate of a hectolitre to a hectare. When cultivated for the latter purpose, it should be sown and treated as directed for the silver-skin. What belief should be sown to blossom forth in a harvest of strength and peace? The seeds of knowledge had been sown, but they lacked moisture and had failed to grow. It must be sown thin, and notwithstanding that attention, it often happens to be too thick. Soils that produce sorrel and redtop when red clover and timothy are sown need drainage or liming or both. The plains of the coast, which are now given over to malaria and Beduin thieves, were doubtless thickly populated and well sown. In Azerbijan the soil is almost all cultivable, and if ploughed and sown will bring good crops of the ordinary kinds of grain. They do not permit rice to be sown within two miles of the cities, on account of the insalubrity. This crop is sown in the plains in January, but in the karpas and some other parts it is sown in the autumn. These little infusori may be sown like the yeast of beer or the lactic ferment. Some of the seeds were sown in the botanic Garden of Madrid, but without result. During the following winter the stumps are removed, and then in spring the land is plowed and lespedeza seed sown. I mix the tares when they are sown with a third of white pease and a third of oats. Because of this it is specially important that sainfoin shall be sown on a clean seed-bed. The spores of didymium crustaceum were sown upon a heap of leaves in autumn. Clover may be seeded also, and on a majority of farms it fails to thrive when sown. Barley, which grows more rapidly than the lupine, was sown to protect the plants while very young. Show More Sentences But there were kopjes ahead, sown with fierce dopper Boers, and those tempting wagons were only to be reached over their bodies. Presently some wild oat sown, brings to that home, as yet publicly undisgraced, its full-grown harvest of shame. And when I said I didn't want you to marry an uncaught criminal, he just looked me over and said, 'You've sown your wild oats. For under the teachings of experience I have sown not starlight and moonshine, but seeds. More especially should this be the aim if the alsike is sown to produce hay. In the South it is frequently sown with red top and orchard grass, especially the latter. Wheat and barley are sown in winter, and in spring, summer and autumn several kinds of durra, especially ksob and gafoli. Three manas are sown on a rupini about the 1st of July, and about the 1st of November produce eight patis. The weeds had to be extirpated before the seeds of nobler flowers could be sown. The seed of the unknown was sown, and would grow into a crop of fabulous magnitude. He had this year sown, and altogether by Indian labor, three hundred fanegas of wheat. For a catch crop on land after wheat and barley, Sesame may be sown in the beginning of June. Let it be sown in a fermentable liquid, which is supplied with plenty of pure air. Thus the germs of rank, in these cases, are sown by the magic which is fetichism in action. They were irrigated, and had been sown and re-sown with timothy grass and clover. Seed is sold under name of witloof chicory, and should be sown in open ground, during May or June, in rows a foot apart. Peas may still be sown, and French beans also, as may cabbage and colewort seed. The majority of men content themselves with the grain of rice sown in the first chapter of all the geneses. Mignonette, Virginia stock, collinsia, should be sown in spring in little patches or lines. Sow Witloof in late spring and early summer for forcing in autumn, while red and sugarloaf varieties can be sown from mid-spring to late summer. Show More Sentences But the bad seed was sown, and in time we reaped the bitter fruits. Some blood taken from the basilic and femoral veins was likewise sown. Red and white clovers have been sown in new leys, along with high sugar grasses. Then, too, my mother said I had sown my wild oats and it was time I settled down to a regular job. But by marriages of prudence we mean those in which both parties have sown their wild oats already. Coriander can be sown in pots on the windowsill for a supply during autumn and winter. It is Capital and Labour over again, for in literature also we reap in gladness what others have sown in tears. So to the Welsh must be given the honor of having sown a seed from which has grown the wide-spreading tree we call the Arthurian Legend. This often means much at the time of the year when the cover crop is sown. The Tares sown amongst the wheat were probably the seed of the darnel. The dryer the ground is when the seeds are sown, the better. Two small areas of meadow at the beauty spot have been cut, scarified, raked and then sown with a range of wildflower seeds. The flax which was sown in this country rose three feet high. Had her passing interest in him as her stage-pupil treacherously sown the seeds of any deeper interest in him, as a man? It is always sown thus when it is to be plowed under, as green manure. Finally, seeds that can be sown during the summer include biennials, such as foxgloves, sweet williams, Canterbury bells and forget-me-nots. Morning glories grow readily from seed sown in pots at around 18C in early spring, provided the seeds are first soaked for 24 hours. It must be sown in corruption before it can be raised in incorruption. Along a short border I have sown more spring onions and cheekily have sown in five Little Gem lettuces for an experiment. I had not thought of beech or sycamore, but they are now sown. Show More Sentences In another variant it is an acorn which is sown under the floor. He saw before him rough ground, thickly sown with underbrush. Pliny also records that it throve best when sown with cursing and railing. Often sweet pea seed here is sown in September or October, one to a pot or module compartment. But he had sown a seed of misliking, and it had opportunity to ripen. To-day I have those three fields sown with Canada peas, and in the spring they shall be ploughed under for green manure. The hardy annual varieties of polygala are obtained by seed sown in peat. For a quarter of an hour I trod on this sand, sown with the impalpable dust of shells. A zephyr or perhaps a bird had sown the seed in this rock-bound prison. He said that in case of normal weather conditions and in time sowing, seeds having four eyes should be sown at the rate of 13000 to 15000 per acre. Sow sweet peas outdoors now or plant out autumn sown sweet peas. There were the broad outer and inner bailies, not paved, but sown with grass to nourish the sheep and cattle which might be driven in on sign of danger. Seeds get lost, seedlings are not pricked out in time, places already sown are planted with something else, and there is confusion out of doors and despair in my heart. It is interesting to note that many of the spring and summer flowers which we regard as 'cottage garden' flowers are biennials which can be sown from seed. Find more words! 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