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10:47 Nov 22, 2011
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English to French translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Agriculture / Ornamental plant production
English term or phrase:single-seed sown plug
Je traduis le catalogue d'un pépiniériste, destiné aux fleuristes et professionnels.
Les plantes sont vendues en plaques, mais un autre format est disponible pour certaines d'entre elles : "also available as single-seed sown plug"
Il s’agit donc de godets (plug) individuels semés d’une seule semence, mais ne trouve pas un terme spécifique ou admis pour cela.
Explanation: "Semoir pneumatique monograine manuel http://www.fabre-graines.com/p1929-semoir-pneumatiq...Cached - Similar - Translate this page
Semoir pneumatique monograine manuel. Très simple ... graines de fleurs et potagères en terrine, mini- motte, godet de culture, pastille de. tourbe, serre d' .."
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quand on sème des courgettes en godet, on met trois graines, on attend la levée, et on garde la plus belle pousse.
Un godet monograine, c'est exactement ça;
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et en fait, techniquement, "plugs" implique qu'il s'agit de plateaux à alvéoles, et aps de pots.
"Growing Great Leeks and Onions the British Way: Guest Post by John Miller of the Old School House Plantery
May 20th, 2010 § 4
Triple Planted Lincoln Leeks and Savoy Cabbage,(with Garden Fork for Scale)
Triple Planted Onions
It’s the middle of May in New England and winter seems to be finally releasing its grip on the climate! Late last week I was planting onions and leeks and I invited Michaela to stop by as I knew what a leek aficionado she is and I knew she wanted some leek seedlings for her potager. I asked her if she knew about the hill or station planting method of planting leeks. She didn’t, so I promised an explaination. Here it is.
Traditionally, onions were ‘direct’ (sowing where they are to grow, in contrast to seed bed grown and transplanted) sown early in the gardening year, mid-March if possible. The grower then had to patiently wait for the onions to emerge to see what sort of crop he could expect. Patience was necessary as onions can take up to six weeks to germinate in open fields and in that time they were subject to the vagaries of the U.K. weather. Despite its moist reputation, maintaining constantly damp soil for six weeks in the U.K. can be a problem!
Coincidental with me being in college, plug production, basically plants already growing in small pots such as those sold in six packs, for field crops was just being introduced. Using plugs a farmer could eliminate the wait time between sowing and emergence and start cultivating the crop as soon as the weeds emerged.
Multi-Sown Onion Plugs
Onions, and their cousins leeks, have very poor root systems so that a single seedling couldn’t hold together a plug very well. To overcome this onions, initially, but quickly followed by leeks, were multi-seeded into plugs and then the whole plug was planted out into the field. Initially 1 inch plug cubes were used and sown with five seeds so that the plug wouldn’t disintegrate during handling. I have slightly modified this system to suit my conditions." http://www.thegardenerseden.com/?tag=growing-leeks-with-the-...
"Production de plants de légumes en plateaux alvéolés http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/french/crops/.../96-024.ht...
Dans un plateau à alvéoles relativement profondes, les plantules disposent chacune d'un plus grand volume de substrat, d'eau et d'éléments fertilisants. ..."
FX Fraipont Belgium Local time: 22:22 Native speaker of: French PRO pts in category: 183
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Asker: Bonjour FX, semoir monograine, oui, mais godet monograine, je ne suis pas convaincu...
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