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Definition of seed potato in English: seed potatonoun A potato that is intended for replanting to produce a new plant and hence more tubers. Example sentencesExamples - Potato Day is an annual event celebrating organic potatoes - with talks, cookery demonstrations, guided tours of the gardens and, of course, sales of seed potatoes.
- After buying seed potatoes, cut them into generous segments with at least one eye each and let dry for a day or two before planting.
- Sprout seed potatoes before planting, by placing them in trays (eyes uppermost) in a cold greenhouse or frost-proof shed.
- There appeared to be some improvement in 1847, but the acreage planted was very small and shortage was endemic, not least because many hungry people had eaten the seed potatoes which were normally planted.
- City officials were severely criticized for their lack of action against the food shortage and for failing to help the cultivators by providing seed potatoes.
- Second, he attempted to conciliate nationalist opinion by policies of social interventionism, including the sale of land to tenant farmers on easy terms, and investment in light railways and seed potatoes.
- In some cases they also supplied seed potatoes and coal to needy tenants and subscribed paltry sums to the local poor-relief fund.
- Catholic Irish who had qualms on this account dispelled them by sprinkling their seed potatoes with holy water and planting them on Good Friday.
- They have all been grown from sixth-generation seed potatoes which have themselves been transported from their nursery fields, in the north of Scotland, to farms around Britain.
- For the past six weeks, I have had three deep seed trays sitting on a shelf in the greenhouse filled with seed potatoes.
- This meant that the seed potatoes had gone very scarce and those that were planted were anything but good.
- For instance, 1 pound of seed potatoes of a full-sized type produces 8 to 12 pounds of tubers.
- In the past we had sufficiently hard winters to keep the aphids and their viruses in check long enough to produce disease-free seed potatoes and soft-fruit plants.
- It is primarily introduced by the planting of infected seed potato or by planting in ground after an outbreak has occurred where volunteer potatoes may still persist.
- Potatoes are a high-value specialty crop that makes raising seed potatoes a specialty within a specialty.
- You will, however, have to do some digging: once to plant the seed potatoes; once to earth them up to prevent the new tubers growing on the surface and becoming poisonously green; and once to lift the resultant crop.
- Disappointment soon turned to excitement again as I realised the package contained our seed potatoes, shallots and onion sets.
- Potato plants are started from small tubers called seed potatoes.
- In April 2000, Canada signed a trade agreement to become the only country allowed to import seed potatoes to China, the biggest consumer and importer of potatoes in the world, but the deal failed to generate any new trade.
- Different attachments can be used for a variety of vegetable starts, seed potatoes or large seeds like beans.
Definition of seed potato in US English: seed potatonounˈsēd pəˌtādō A potato that is planted and used for the production of seeds. (为收种子而种植的)种用马铃薯 Example sentencesExamples - Disappointment soon turned to excitement again as I realised the package contained our seed potatoes, shallots and onion sets.
- City officials were severely criticized for their lack of action against the food shortage and for failing to help the cultivators by providing seed potatoes.
- In some cases they also supplied seed potatoes and coal to needy tenants and subscribed paltry sums to the local poor-relief fund.
- Sprout seed potatoes before planting, by placing them in trays (eyes uppermost) in a cold greenhouse or frost-proof shed.
- Second, he attempted to conciliate nationalist opinion by policies of social interventionism, including the sale of land to tenant farmers on easy terms, and investment in light railways and seed potatoes.
- There appeared to be some improvement in 1847, but the acreage planted was very small and shortage was endemic, not least because many hungry people had eaten the seed potatoes which were normally planted.
- This meant that the seed potatoes had gone very scarce and those that were planted were anything but good.
- After buying seed potatoes, cut them into generous segments with at least one eye each and let dry for a day or two before planting.
- In April 2000, Canada signed a trade agreement to become the only country allowed to import seed potatoes to China, the biggest consumer and importer of potatoes in the world, but the deal failed to generate any new trade.
- You will, however, have to do some digging: once to plant the seed potatoes; once to earth them up to prevent the new tubers growing on the surface and becoming poisonously green; and once to lift the resultant crop.
- Potato plants are started from small tubers called seed potatoes.
- For the past six weeks, I have had three deep seed trays sitting on a shelf in the greenhouse filled with seed potatoes.
- They have all been grown from sixth-generation seed potatoes which have themselves been transported from their nursery fields, in the north of Scotland, to farms around Britain.
- In the past we had sufficiently hard winters to keep the aphids and their viruses in check long enough to produce disease-free seed potatoes and soft-fruit plants.
- It is primarily introduced by the planting of infected seed potato or by planting in ground after an outbreak has occurred where volunteer potatoes may still persist.
- Potatoes are a high-value specialty crop that makes raising seed potatoes a specialty within a specialty.
- Different attachments can be used for a variety of vegetable starts, seed potatoes or large seeds like beans.
- For instance, 1 pound of seed potatoes of a full-sized type produces 8 to 12 pounds of tubers.
- Potato Day is an annual event celebrating organic potatoes - with talks, cookery demonstrations, guided tours of the gardens and, of course, sales of seed potatoes.
- Catholic Irish who had qualms on this account dispelled them by sprinkling their seed potatoes with holy water and planting them on Good Friday.
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