verb
definition
To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
example
As you sow, so shall you reap.
definition
To spread abroad; to propagate.
definition
To scatter over; to besprinkle.
noun
definition
The act or process by which something is sown.
example
annual sowings of wheat
Examples of sowing in a Sentence
The sowing and planting season is from June to August, and the reaping season from December to February.
I was sowing wild oats at that age and not thinking clearly.
You'll also read about sowing parsnips in February.
For the sowing of seed see Sowing.
Proerosia, at which prayers were offered for an abundant harvest, before the land was ploughed for sowing.
Form and repair lawns and grass walks by laying turf and sowing perennial grass-seeds; mow the lawns frequently; plant evergreens.
If the plants are started early in the greenhouse, they are likely to spend themselves before fall, and therefore a later sowing should be provided.
Pea Forage Yield Forage yields of peas increased significantly with increased sowing density in all but the late pea harvest in 1999.
As he went along he looked with pleasure at the year's splendid crop of corn, scrutinized the strips of ryefield which here and there were already being reaped, made his calculations as to the sowing and the harvest, and asked himself whether he had not forgotten any of the prince's orders.
In contrast, a mere 10% had both adequate seedbed moisture and more than 10mm of rain within a month of sowing.
It flowers a couple of months after sowing.
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Sowing to a short-term crop followed by further surface cultivations may be best before establishing a long-term sward.
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Applied on fertility leys in the autumn before sowing vetch and before beans.
The Latin proverb has it that "Turdus malum sibi cacat"; but the sowing is really effected by the bird wiping its beak, to which the seeds adhere, against the bark of the tree on which it has alighted.
It is frequently raised at once by sowing the acorns on the ground where the trees are required, the fruit being gathered in the autumn as soon as shed, and perfectly ripe seeds selected; but the risk of destruction by mice and other vermin is so great that transplanting from a nursery-bed is in most cases to be preferred.
Rising above the Rock is Cole's Hill, where during their first winter in America the Pilgrims buried half their number, levelling the graves and sowing grain over them in the spring in order to conceal their misfortunes from the Indians.
Even the earliest forms of intensive cultivation demand the practice of the fundamental processes of husbandry - ploughing, manuring, sowing, weeding, reaping.
The seed is now set; usually it is thoroughly mixed with a relatively large quantity of fine ashes, sand or meal, to facilitate thin and even sowing, and the surface of the bed is afterwards lightly brushed over with a broom; it is very important to avoid burying the seed at all deeply; a light covering of cloth or muslin, raised on short sticks, is often stretched over the bed.
Some regard the legend as a chthonian myth, Aea (Colchis) being the under-world in the Aeolic religious system from which Jason liberates himself and his betrothed; others, in view of certain resemblances between the story of Jason and that of Cadmus (the ploughing of the field, the sowing of the dragon's teeth, the fight with the Sparti, who are finally set fighting with one another by a stone hurled into their midst), associate both with Demeter the corn-goddess, and refer certain episodes to practices in use at country festivals, e.g.
Click here for easy to follow instructions on sowing radishes.
Try spring onions, lettuce, radish, dill and coriander, sowing in a small drill every three to four weeks.
Practices like early sowing of winter cereals (eg In August rather than October) tended to increase the use of insecticides.
Dr. Barrow begins by sowing the seeds of fear with a spooky bedtime tale.
Turnips Begin to harvest and continue sowing turnips until the end of the month.
Ellen labored on her uncle 's farm, plowing, sowing and harvesting.
Late winter is the best season for sowing seeds.
In March and April the seed should be sown in the open ground in a free soil and an open situation; but if the plants are intended for pot culture, the sowing should be two months earlier.
Each plant should be allowed quite 8 inches for development, and in hot weather those from the latest sowing should be well watered.
They flower about eight weeks after sowing, and remain in bloom a long time.
Sowing themselves freely, they are apt to become too numerous and somewhat "starved," so that they are best grown in large groups.
I have found some gain from late sowing in July, the May-sown plants dying off in the August heats.
Seeds germinate readily in a cold frame, but a few years elapse between sowing and flowering.
The plant does best in rich sandy loam and planted in bold masses, which flower from July to October, according to the time of sowing.
To produce the best results these charming plants must be strongly grown, and robust specimens can only be obtained by thin sowing.
In light dry soils early autumn sowing is recommended, sufficiently early to permit the young plants to attain some size before the setting-in of winter.
Fair success, however, may be looked for, especially in good soils, where spring sowing will often yield excellent results, while the advantages of autumn sowing are best seen in light sandy soils.
It will also grow well if the seed is not sown till the following spring, but by sowing immediately nearly a year is gained.
Try sowing another group of seeds in trays, following the directions in our article on seed germination.
The work on agriculture' of Ibn-al-Awam, who lived in the 12th century A.D., treats of the varieties of soils, manuring, irrigation, ploughing, sowing, harvesting, stock, horticulture, arboriculture and plant diseases, and is a lasting record of their skill and industry.
In 1892, at Warwick, the competitions related to ploughs - single furrow (a) for light land, (b) for strong land, (c) for press drill and broad-cast sowing; two-furrow; three-furrow; digging (a) for light land, (b) for heavy land; and one-way ploughs.
The cotton from each is collected and kept separately, and at the end of the season carefully examined and weighed, and a final selection is then made which reduces the number to perhaps five; the cotton from each of these plants is gained separately and the seed preserved for sowing.
Great care is necessary in attending to the watering of the young and delicate seedlings, which are ready for transplanting in from fifty to sixty days after sowing.
Ripening is complete in about 35 days after topping or about 155 days after sowing.
As even distribution at a uniform depth is necessary, the drill is preferred to the broadcast-seeder for barley sowing.
They are usually strong enough to flower the third year from this sowing.
Esparto may be raised from seed, but cannot be harvested for twelve or fifteen years after sowing.
This view of existence as an endless and concomitant sowing and reaping is accepted by learned and unlearned alike as accounting for those inequalities in human life which might otherwise lead men to doubt the justice of God.
A crop of very large bulbs may also be secured by sowing about the beginning of September, and transplanting early in spring to very rich soil.