growing season

noun

: the period of the year that is warm enough for plants to grow

Examples of growing season in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Pollinators need flowering plants for the entire growing season, from early spring to winter. Christina Grozinger, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2024 With vegetables, succession planting applies to the harvest season, so something is always ready or almost ready for picking throughout the growing season. Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024 The growing season wasn’t easy amid a deadly combo of excessive rainfall and warm day and night temperatures—quite different from that of 2022, which was beset by serious drought and heat. Elin McCoy, Fortune Europe, 11 May 2024 That’s when the company can actually take home a profit and make up for losses during the rest of the growing season. Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024 In CSAs, consumers can buy shares of a farm's production as a kind of farm-to-table subscription, accessing fresh food from local farms on a schedule throughout the growing season — while sharing in some of the risks inherent to agriculture, like weather. Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 13 May 2024 For the record, morning glories tend to bloom a lot more in the second half of the growing season, as days start to grow shorter. Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 May 2024 This fast and constant growth allows farmers to harvest the same field up to 60 times during the growing season at some farms. Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024 To get a head start on the growing season, most gardeners start the seeds indoors about four weeks before the last average frost date and transplant the seedlings after there is no more danger of a late spring frost. Nadia Hassani, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 May 2024

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“Growing season.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/growing%20season. Accessed 1 Jun. 2024.

Kids Definition

growing season

noun
: the period of the year that is warm enough for growth especially of cultivated plants
especially : the period between the last killing frost in the spring and the first one in the fall
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