Homes could be rebuilt, crops resown, goods replaced. From Wordnik.com. [Running From The Deity]
Arugula, spinach, lettuce and cilantro had to be resown through chickenwire after the squirrels had a digfest with the first batch. From Wordnik.com. [October Veggie Day « Fairegarden] Reference
LeMay ensured that fields were resown often, and in sufficient density to prevent more than a trickle of ships from getting through. From Wordnik.com. [Whirlwind] Reference
He said mine clearance, a painstaking task at the best of times, was made doubly difficult because sometimes cleared areas were resown with explosives overnight. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Clay soils are therefore hard to dig and expensive to cultivate: the farmer calls them heavy and usually prefers to put them into grass because once the grass is up it lasts as long as it is wanted and never needs to be resown. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons on Soil] Reference
But the trees can be replanted, the seeds, resown. From Wordnik.com. [Electronic Intifada : Palestine] Reference
"One farmer has about 400 hectares which will have to be resown," Forbes agronomist Graham Falconer said. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
"One farmer has about 400 hectares (1,000 acres) which will have to be resown," an agronomist in the town of Forbes, Graham Falconer, told public broadcaster ABC. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
"One farmer has about 400 hectares (1,000 acres) which will have to be resown," Graham Falconer, an agronomist in the town of Forbes, told public broadcaster ABC. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Dandelions are regarded as weeds for a reason-they are robust, fast-growing plants that can be pulled up for processing and resown easily, possibly yielding two harvests a year. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
Evidently, he must first set them to bank out the water in some temporary way, and to get their ground cleansed and resown; else, in any case, their continued maintenance will be impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
He sowed winter-wheat in spring, and out of one hundred plants four alone produced ripe seeds; these were sown and resown, and in three years plants were reared which ripened all their seed. From Wordnik.com. [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference
Simply in this -- that he assumes (I do not mean in words, but it is manifestly latent in all that he says) that the wheat shall be continually resown on the same area of land: he will not allow of. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg] Reference
They take ancient wild, perennial varieties of grains, and cross them with their modern annual counterparts, and repeat, and repeat, until they end up with a harvestable product from a plant that doesn't have to be resown every year. From Wordnik.com. [Permaculture Research Institute of Australia] Reference
Hundreds of acres of wheat were plowed up, and the land resown, and hundreds more would have been plowed up had it not been for the fact that the land was seeded with timothy grass at the time of sowing the wheat, and with clover in the spring. From Wordnik.com. [Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject] Reference
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