These wrappings are kept on indefinitely, the rule being that no sprouting is to be permitted below the 24-inch murk.
I have planted olive seeds which are just sprouting now.
They should not, however, be allowed to remain longer in storage, but should be exposed to the sun for the development of the eyes, even to the sprouting point being desirable before planting.
Sweet potatoes may be kept from sprouting by storage in a cool, dry place.
Between the upper and the middle strata were sprouting nuts and seeds, with their blanched roots threaded downward into the rich dark mold, and the greening cotyledons curling upward toward light and warmth.
When the air cleared I saw that the monkey-ladder had vanished and I knew that its yards upon yards of length lay coiled and crushed among the ferns and sprouting palms of the jungle floor.
Most were as lifeless in appearance as empty shells, but there were many with the tiny root and natal leaves sprouting hopefully through a chink.
Abundant foliagesprouting on the hole of infected shortleaf is common.
The chestnut is a vigorous sprouting species but the fungus survives in previously killed stumps and later kills the new sprout growth.
Sir James Frazer lays great stress upon a picture of Osiris in which his body is shown covered with sprouting shoots of corn, and he seems to be of opinion that this is positive evidence that Osiris was a corn-god.
This sculpture, it may be observed, occurs in the same chamber in which the god is depicted as a corpse with ears of corn sproutingfrom him.
Afterwards, as I sat smoking outside, I saw him wandering in the fields listlessly, his tall figure standing out against the sky as he paused to look at the sprouting wheat.
Only at sunrise and sunset his tall, gaunt figure stood out against the circling sky as he wandered through the sprouting wheat waiting for the rain which never came.
That their conservative phraseology would fool no one was recognized at the Convention by Irwin St. John Tucker, who said: "You can disguise yourself by sprouting pink whiskers.
Turning to the left as you stand at the temple front, the eye wanders over the rich plain of Eleusis, now dotted over with villages, and colored (in April) with the rich brown of ploughing and the splendid green of sprouting wheat.
In the spring the sprouting seeds and young buds, also the blades of young grass, are eaten, and grains of sand help their digestion.
From this scene we emerged into wide plains, green with sprouting corn, and bordered by gigantic aloes.
Close to it we saw great aloes, many of which were sproutingfrom the sand and rock-strewn beach, and from the prostrate masonry of the Cæsars.
The fine cloth for sarongs is decorated with fanciful delineations of the flowers that blow in every field and meadow, their calixes and curly tendrils sprouting amidst figures of widemouthed dragons, fanged and clawed.
For money it was he counted, when he gazed so long and earnestly at his vegetables--the alchemy of his thrifty imagination turning every young stalk and sprouting leaflet into a bit of metal, adorned with his Royal kinsman's effigy.
She tore the bark from their fair bodies, she stripped the leaves from their sprouting fingers, she clung to their hardening limbs in vain.
Soon he perceived them to be the steel heads of spears, sprouting up everywhere like so many stalks of grain, and continually growing taller and taller.
Then, as a young man with a sprouting chin, we have the picture till recently at Leipzig of which Goethe's enthusiastic description has already been quoted (p.
Master Hugo and Alexander Imhof and Friedrich the Hirschvogels' servant gave me, each of them, an Indian cocoa-nut which they had won at play, and the host gave me a sprouting bulb.
Later in Spring: Sprouting Seeds Without Watering For the first years that I experimented with dry gardening I went overboard and attempted to grow food as though I had no running water at all.
This dampness will not disappear before the sprouting seedling has propelled a root several inches farther down and is putting a leaf into the sunlight.
Sprouting seeds then rest atop damp soil exactly they lie on a damp blotter in a germination laboratory's covered petri dish.
Varieties: The water-wise gardener's main potato problem is too-early maturity, and then premature sproutingin storage.
Broccoli: Purple Sproutingand Other Overwintering Types Spacing: Grow like broccoli, 3 to 4 feet apart.
Gently mix this cool starch gel with the sprouting seeds, making sure the seeds are uniformly blended.
Without any irrigation, spring-sown broccoli may still be enjoyed in early summer and Purple Sprouting in March/April after overwintering.
Purple Sprouting needs a bit of sprinkling to germinate in the heat of midsummer, but, being as vigorous as kale, once up, it grows adequately on the overspray from the raised bed.
The peas are harvested early enough to permit a succession sowing of Purple Sprouting broccoli in mid-July.
With nearly a whole year to grow before blooming, Purple Sprouting eventually reaches 4 to 5 feet in height and 3 to 4 feet in diameter, and yields hugely.
In recently tilled earth, successfully sprouting small seeds in warm weather is dicey without frequent watering.
With a bit of forethought, the water-wise gardener can easily reestablish capillarity below sprouting seeds so that moisture held deeper in the soil rises to replace that lost from surface layers, reducing or eliminating the need for watering.
But in the main its burden was the breath of willows catkin and sprouting grass and the first shy bloom on the open edges of the uplands.
Since that time Mgongo Tembo has been but blackened wrecks of houses, and the fields a sprouting jungle.
A young jungle was sprouting up vigorously in their fields, and was rapidly becoming the home of wild denizens of the forest.
Yesterday and the day before I went to the farm and spent the days, easy like, grubbing and sprouting the fence lines inside the field west of the old house at Russellville.
I have rigged up a chart on the marble top of the table whereon the radio sets, and I figure a day spent at the farmsprouting and grubbing bushes, etc.
Small tree, "grub," of white oak many times killed back; finally dead at the middle and sprouting on the margins.
Buds and shoots sprouting from roots of the common locust.
In shallow boxes of earth on the kitchen table, cabbage, lettuce, and tomato seeds were sprouting beside Mousie's plants.
Therefore I improvised a coop by laying down a barrel near the radishes and driving stakes in front of it to confine the hen, which otherwise, with the best intentions, would have scratched up all my sprouting seeds.
The cultivator had been through them, and Merton and I, only the evening before, had finished hoeing out the sprouting weeds and surplus suckers.
This is a most beautiful day of English winter; clear and bright, with the ground a little frozen, and the green grass along the waysides at Rock Ferry sprouting up through the frozen pools of yesterday's rain.
It is absolutely paved from border to border with flat tombstones, on a level with the soil and with each other, so that it is one floor of stone over the whole space, with grass here and there sprouting between the crevices.
Yet I rejoice: a myrtle fairer than E'er grew in Paphos, from the bitter weeds Lifts its sweet head into the air, and feeds A silent space with ever sprouting green.
They were standing with their feet on the turf in a cris-cross of shadow, of twigs, and green blades sprouting between.
