Seedlings, trees, or fruit which have been removed to improve the growth of those remaining.
间苗；疏果；疏伐
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Harvest the first thinnings as soon as four weeks later.
The launch of the plant is not only seen as providing a green energy source, but also as a valuable market for forest thinnings.
It is proposed that the waste timber product would be obtained from local forestry residues, including thinnings.
It will use sawdust, bark and woodchips together with forest thinnings to generate heat for the sawmill's timber drying operations.
You don't need every tree to be of good form as many of them will be removed early in the life of the crop as thinnings.
If you grow your own radishes, use the thinnings from your garden in salads.
I recommend filling a bowl with sliced young leeks, whole carrot and beetroot thinnings, tender spinach leaves, small florets of raw cauliflower, fresh peas from the pod, and a clump of ginger mint and flat leaf parsley.
The seedlings you remove can go straight on the compost heap, or in the case of some veg, such as lettuce and beets, the thinnings can be eaten.
Spring onions are well suited to growing in pots on the deck; the thinnings are useful; and they are hardy.
At a later stage of growth, young rape thinnings are sometimes sold as spring greens.
Thin seedlings when they're 2 inches tall; use thinnings in salads and continue harvesting all season.
There is enough room left for a stall-fed cow and a few pigs, which he feeds with thinnings from his vegetable beds.