...push out the flowers that are intended to grow in a flower bed. Weeds are unattractive to most of us. Weeds are a form of plant that grows where it does not belong or where it’s not wanted. A flower grows where you plant it and it blossom so beautiful where you want it to grow. A weed is something that grows anywhere. Weeds are unattractive to most of us. Because they have prickles and thorns that stick you as you are trying to get them out of your garden. When they grow they take over your garden and grow to a certain point and then turn all brown and ugly. They roots grows very deep and destroy the roots of your flowers and that then makes it very hard to kill them off, before they kill off your flowers that you have planted . Weeds makes it hard for other flowers to grow in the same bed , because they pull all the nutrients and light that s need for your flowers to grow. Flowers are those plants that we intentionally plant in our gardens to grow. Flowers are something with life and different rays of colors and beauty that enhance your garden with beautiful scents and all different kinds of shape and size. Flowers that you can cut and use as show pieces for you table or office on your desk or maybe to give to someone just because. Flowers will not kill off your other flowers as weeds will do. A flowers will a seed and make another beautiful flowers. We use flowers for romance, gifts and ways to show someone you care. Weeds grows...
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...Seed Experiment Lab Report I. Abstract: Temperature, sunlight, and water affect the growth of plants. However, what if the manipulation of basil seeds itself also affects its growth? Generally, basil seeds require 5-10 days for it to germinate. Germination is the process of when a seed first sprouts from the seedling. In addition, for the basil seeds to receive full exposure to the sunlight, moving them from the East side of the house to the West side of the house is required each day. The purpose of this experiment is to observe whether different treatments on basils seeds before they are planted, affect the length of time they germinate compared to one that is untreated. After the...
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...one of an overwhelming impression of a single character; instead, the reader is left with the feeling of being trapped in a crowd, unable to find a familiar face. It is made up of four vignettes, each seemingly from the perspective of different speakers. The first is an autobiographical snippet from the childhood of an aristocratic woman, in which she recalls sledding and claims that she is German, not Russian. The woman mixes a meditation on the seasons with remarks on the barren state of her current existence ("I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter"). The second is a prophetic, apocalyptic invitation to journey into a desert waste where the speaker will show the reader "something different from either / Your shadow at morning striding behind you / Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; / [He] will show you fear in a handful of dust". The almost threatening prophetic tone is mixed with childhood reminiscences about a "hyacinth girl" and a nihilistic epiphany the speaker has after an encounter with her. The third episode in this part describes an imaginative tarot reading, in which some of the cards Eliot includes in the reading...
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...Growing Cold Hardy Palms in the Northern States Growing cold hardy palms in the north is not as difficult as you would think. There are several species that are able to survive into a USDA zone 6 with little to no protection. They are from different parts of the world and are native to places that do see winter time cold weather. Since most people see a palm tree as a sign of the tropics, they never realize that they can be grown in places outside of Florida. What people fail to understand is that while Florida may have a warm Sub-Tropical Climate. Even Florida can get cold. There has been recorded snow flurries in Miami Fl. While the all-time record low in the state is minus three degrees Fahrenheit. The first species is called the Needle Palm. It is the coldest hardy of all palm trees in the world. It is native to the northern sections of Florida and into the coastal regions of Georgia and southern South Carolina. This palm can withstand short temperature drops to minus fifteen Fahrenheit. It is slow growing palm that rarely reaches more than eight feet when mature. It is not a A-sexual tree and must have a male and female plant to reproduce. The Needle Palm is endangered in the wild but is fairly common in Cultivation. The second tree is the Sabal Minor. This tree is also A United States Native. It can be found from the lower Piedmont of North Caroline near the Virginia border to McCurtain County Oklahoma. Its native range is larger then any other Palm...
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...All About Apples History The history of apples stretches back to the days of Adam and Eve, when it is believed to have been the “forbidden fruit” described in the Bible. Despite this long standing history, apples did not always grow naturally in New England. While the first apples are thought to have grown on the lower slopes of Tian Shan, a mountain range separating Kazakhstan and Krygystan, they also grew wild in Central and Southwest Asia, China, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Greece. Through conquest and exploration, apples were spread when Romans conquered England and when Spaniards brought them to Mexico and South America. It wasn’t until the mid 1600’s that the Pilgrims cultivated them in Massachusetts. It is believed that John Endecott, an early governor, was the first to bring an apple tree to North America, and the first orchard was planted on Beacon Hill by a clergyman named William Blaxton. It is Blaxton who is credited for growing the first named apple, the Yellow Sweeting. Once apples were established in New England, they played an active role in everyday life. As a fruit which was easily stored through the winter, as well as being very beneficial to settlers’ health, apples were a main staple in early settlers’ diets. Despite the fact that apples were not initially from North America, and have been growing disease-free for centuries in their native habitats, the early settlers found that the long, hot summers and cold winters of New England grew apples...
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...provide other less obvious benefits. I planted my tree in a nice shady area but also sunny as well. I did this so it can get sun in the day but shade as the sun sets. One reason why I planted this tree was to improve our air and planet, I planted this with help from my dad and his green thumb. In addition, my project is important because “it has been shown that spending time among trees and green spaces reduces the amount of stress we carry”. Not only that, but also “trees reduce the amount of storm water runoff, which reduces erosion and pollution in our waterways and may reduce the effects of flooding”. Uniquely “fallen tree leaves can reduce soil temperature and soil moisture loss. Decaying leaves promote soil”. In essence my project is helping...
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...Early farmers picked up some fruit of wild plants to home, eat them, and spited out the bigger seeds or defecated the tiny size seeds to human latrines. And then the seeds germinated in the early lab. But the key points were how the early farmers decided to pick up which fruit? It’s not hard to make some hypothesis: Fruit size: Strawberry, early farmers went into thorny thicket amid the mosquitoes on a hot, humid day to pick up strawberry; the only criterion is the size. The early farmer would choose only bigger size ones to compensate the while to get sunburned and mosquito bitten. Bitterness: Many wild seeds evolved to be bitter, bad-tasting or even poisonous to keep human or animals away from eating them. Natural selection functioned as getting the fruit tasteful dispersed by animals and continue the process of reproducing, meanwhile if the seed remained tasteful, the animal will chew them up as well. Occasional individual almond trees have a mutation in a single gene that prevents them from synthesizing the bitter-tasting amygdalin, which breaks down to yield poison cyanide. Such trees die out in the wild, while the trees lived near humans survived by being picked up by curious children or early farmers who noticed the non-bitter fruit. Fleshiness, Oiliness and fiber length are all similar in the selection process. Initially the wild fruit had less fruit around their seeds, but early farmers chose the fruit mutated to be with more Fleshiness, less seeds, such as squashes...
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...food crops” (Reeves and Rushing 118). Potatoes are more than just a tasty side dish; did you know the potatoes also helped give rise to America. In his article, How Potatoes Changed the World, author Charles C. Mann writes that historians believe that the potato’s arrival in northern Europe from the Andes spelled an end to famine and food shortage in Europe. In his article Mann also quoted historian William H. McNeill on how the cultivation of potato in Europe led to an empire: “By feeding a rapidly growing populations, Potatoes permitted a handful of European nations to assert dominion over most of the world between 1750 and 1950.” (Mann). Whether mashed, baked or french fried potatoes are an important staple in the American diet because potatoes are easily stored and “can keep for up to about eight months, especially if they’re a variety known for storage quality (Poncavage 2014).”...
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...Ghana and Indonesia are in this area, therefore they are the highest producing countries of cocoa in the world. Cocoa trees grow to their full potential when they are in humid tropical climates, being grown in evergreen rainforests, cocoa trees get a perfect mix of medium to high temperatures, shade and rainfall. The designated area of the belt means that the rainforests have a very short dry season, at the very most, the dry seasons or otherwise known as the dry spells, will last for a maximum of two months. The cocoa tree produce (cocoa beans) is extremely dependent...
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...The context. Provide the reader with the setting of the observation including the place and the content of the lesson interfaced for learning. For my peer observation I had the opportunity to visit Ms. Cade’s 1st grade classroom at Hyalite where Savannah is completing her practicum at. Savannah has being teaching a unit on plants and for this lesson I was able to participate in a lesson that demonstrated whether plants need soil to grow. She had created an activity that would but this theory to action and prove whether plants need soil to grow. Your noticings. What did you see? What felt familiar? Did learning happen? How did you know? One of the first things I noticed when I walked into the classroom was...
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...China has played a significant part in many famous inventions that have had a major impact in our lives from day to day. How many of us have ever given a thought to those that have made our lives easier by their inventions? There are quite a few from the Ancient Chinese that I was not aware of and was amazed at how many of these we do use in our lives every day and never stop to think where these items were invented. So what are some of the amazing things the Ancient Chinese have invented? Well to answer this question and to explain all of the different inventions that the Chinese have brought to us would really be a mouthful. So I will explain the top ten in my list. And they are the following: • Row Planting • The Compass • Gunpowder • Paper • Seismograph • The Wheelbarrow • Kites • Silk • Seed Drill • Hang Gliders Thank You Ancient Chinese Now allow me explain these marvels. Row planting was first planted in 6th century BC. This way of planting allows the crops to grow faster and stronger and they also realized that as the wind travels there is less damage in crops planted in rows due to the wind passing through gently. It is also more efficient in watering, weeding and harvesting the crops. The compass was created in 4th century BC and was made of lodestone. The compass was first used by fortune-tellers before it was applied to the cardinal direction. Then the Chinese’s started using the compass to point to the south because they considered south not...
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...Introduction You and your neighbor have small kitchen gardens where you both grow tomatoes. His blotchy green and red tomatoes taste much sweeter than your perfectly uniform red ones. Could the sweetness of the tomatoes be effected by the green chloroplasts in the fruit? Hypothesis I personally think that the green chloroplasts do play a part in the sweetness of the tomatoes because it doesn’t state how ripe the tomatoes were when they were eaten, what type of soil was used to plant them and if the same type of tomato seeds were used. Controlled Experimental Method Scientists planted tomatoes and put a batch in sunlight and the others in full shade to find out how the tomatoes would grow and which ones would taste better. They found that the tomatoes in the shade, did not grow very well and did not taste good, whereas the tomatoes that had sunlight, grew to a standard size and had a sweeter taste. Results “The discoloration (ranging from a few millimeters to the top 1/3 of the fruit) is caused by a failure of green chloroplasts in tissue affected by YSD to develop into red chloroplasts. This modification is accompanied by a more random cell orientation and smaller cells relative to mature green fruit, these changes begin early in fruit development and cannot be reversed by delaying harvest.” (Tomatoes, 2015) Chloroplasts use sunlight and turns it into sugar in the fruit which means that the tomatoes that have more sunlight would be sweeter than the tomatoes that are...
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...Tomato Sweetness Jessica Pursell American InterContinental University 01/18/2015 Biology IP2 Introduction You and your neighbor have small kitchen gardens where you both grow tomatoes. His blotchy green and red tomatoes taste much sweeter than your perfectly uniform red ones. Could the sweetness of the tomatoes be effected by the green chloroplasts in the fruit? Hypothesis I personally think that the green chloroplasts do play a part in the sweetness of the tomatoes because it doesn’t state how ripe the tomatoes were when they were eaten, what type of soil was used to plant them and if the same type of tomato seeds were used. Controlled Experimental Method Scientists planted tomatoes and put a batch in sunlight and the others in full shade to find out how the tomatoes would grow and which ones would taste better. They found that the tomatoes in the shade, did not grow very well and did not taste good, whereas the tomatoes that had sunlight, grew to a standard size and had a sweeter taste. Results “The discoloration (ranging from a few millimeters to the top 1/3 of the fruit) is caused by a failure of green chloroplasts in tissue affected by YSD to develop into red chloroplasts. This modification is accompanied by a more random cell orientation and smaller cells relative to mature green fruit, these changes begin early in fruit development and cannot be reversed by delaying harvest.” (Tomatoes, 2015) Chloroplasts use sunlight and turns it into sugar in the...
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...for wreaths and garland. Scotch pine have needles that are an inch in length and have a bright green color. The needles will not fall off the tree when dry. It is also a common tree because of the freshness it keeps through the holidays. Eastern White Pine have soft green needles. It has a strong scent, and produces decorative pine cones. Virginia Pine is the most unusual as it can tolerate warmer winter temperatures. The tree is smaller than the other varieties, and is more common in the south. Grand Fir trees are more rounded. The needles have a dark green top layer, and a white under tuck. Mostly grown where summers are cool and winters are long. The Eastern Red Cedar are more common on the east coast of North America. The tree has strong smell and has a strong tolerance to drought. Christmas trees are grown in places where land is free of other...
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...Introduction Millions of African smallholders—farmers, herders and fisherfolk—are resource-poor and suffer from food insecurity. Their low incomes mean they are unable to make investments and take on risks. Their agricultural systems are buffeted by sudden, acute shocks caused by natural and man-made hazards—drought, flooding, erosion, conflicts. Long-term trends, in part the result of international markets, national policy decisions and institutional frameworks, often move against them. The food-security problem is not merely an inability to produce enough food to keep pace with population growth. Such a simplistic reckoning fails to take into account the ecological, cultural, social and economic features which are the bedrock of sustainable agriculture. Environmental degradation and a diminishing resource base seriously affect African farmers who depend on rainfed agriculture. As critical watersheds are deforested, water supplies have become unreliable and the climate less predictable. Local actors are seldom consulted when agricultural policies are formulated. Small-scale farmers (especially women) find it hard to get credit, seeds and other inputs, and the information they need to farm their land in a profitable, sustainable way. Some governments still control the prices of key farm outputs, and unscrupulous traders manipulate the prices of others. In addition, political instability is a major obstacle to food security and sustainable agriculture in many countries. Access...
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