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2. Chitting - Wikipedia

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   Chitting is a method of preparing potatoes or other tubers for planting. The seed potatoes are placed in a tray (often in egg cartons) in a light and cool place but shielded from direct sunlight. All but three or four of the "eyes" (sprouting parts) of the potato are removed, leaving the strongest growths only.

3. Three Sisters (agriculture) - Wikipedia

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   The Three Sisters planting method is featured on the reverse of the 2009 US Sacagawea dollar. [1]Agricultural history in the Americas differed from the Old World in that the Americas lacked large-seeded, easily domesticated grains (such as wheat and barley) and large domesticated animals that could be used for agricultural labor.

4. Cereal growth staging scales - Wikipedia

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   Tillers formed; leaves often twisted spirally. Main shoot and six tillers. In some varieties of winter wheat, plant may be "creeping," or prostrate. 4: Beginning of the erection of the pseudo-stem; leaf sheaths beginning to lengthen. 5: Pseudo-stem (formed by sheaths of leaves) strongly erected. Stem Extension 6: First node of stem visible at ...

5. For farmers, watching and waiting is a spring planting ritual ...

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   Waiting on the weather is an old story in agriculture, but as climate change drives an increase in spring rains across the Midwest, the usual anxiety around the ritual of spring planting is ...

6. It's spring! Is it time to start yardwork or landscaping in ...

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   The Farmer's Almanac offers a planting calendar, broken down by city, which provides advice on the best time to start seeds or plant seedlings depending on the vegetable you want to grow.

7. Growing degree-day - Wikipedia

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   Growing degree days (GDD), also called growing degree units (GDUs), are a heuristic tool in phenology.GDD are a measure of heat accumulation used by horticulturists, gardeners, and farmers to predict plant and animal development rates such as the date that a flower will bloom, an insect will emerge from dormancy, or a crop will reach maturity.