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Growing season   /grˈoʊɪŋ sˈizən/   Listen
Growing season

noun
1.
The season during which a crop grows best.





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"Growing season" Quotes from Famous Books



... weeds are a part of the collection! Of course, some plants will resent this treatment, but the border may be a happy family, and be all the better and more personal because it is the result of moments of relaxation. Such a border has something new and interesting every month of the growing season; and even in the winter the tall clumps of grasses and aster-stems hold their banners above the snow and are a source of delight to ...
— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey
... mineral and other matters from the soil, and hold them during the growing season, thus depriving crops of ...
— The Elements of Agriculture - A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools • George E. Waring
... earth which for the most part receive only a temporary coating of snow the effect of this covering is inconsiderable. The snow water is yielded to the earth, from which it has helped to withdraw the frost, so that in the springtime, the growing season of plants, the ground contains an ample store of moisture for their development. Where the snowfall accumulates to a great thickness, especially where it lodges in forests, the influence of the icy covering is somewhat to protract the winter ...
— Outlines of the Earth's History - A Popular Study in Physiography • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
... size and diversity, small percentage of land is arable and much is too far north; some of most fertile land is water deficient or has insufficient growing season; many better climates have poor soils; hot, dry, desiccating sukhovey wind affects south; desertification; continuous permafrost over much of Siberia is ...
— The 1991 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... conditions determine the general distribution of plants, the amount of water which a soil holds and can give up to plants during the growing season determines very largely the crops to which it is ...
— The First Book of Farming • Charles L. Goodrich


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