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Thistle is classified as a noxious weed in most places and must be controlled. | I've got the same problem, where there are fields of dandelions just beyond the borders of my gardens. | 1.6 |
Support is good for eggplants as the fruit may become heavy and can even break the branches. | Some support won't hurt, especially if it is a large fruited variety. | 2.4 |
To paraphrase a common saying, "One man's weed is another man's lawn". | First, let me say I've no experience doing battle with Bermuda grass. | 1 |
Just about anything can be grown indoors without natural sunlight. | We have quite a few people here who have grown peppers and small tomatoes indoors and in pots. | 2 |
Chances are picking the seeds once it's gone to seed isn't going to actually encourage new growth. | The longer you can leave the seed-heads on the plant the better (IMHO). | 1.6 |
So you know, I do not have personal experience with this. | Since you've already accepted a nicely sourced answer, I'll contribute some unsubstatiated tradition (i.e. | 0.2 |
In the past it has grown almost like a weed in our pots on our deck here in North Texas. | Additional to the other answers, basil famously doesn't like to be damp overnight. | 0.2 |
There is a very full description of the various types of hormone rooting compound here. | It is meant to stimulate root growth - in particular to stimulate the creation of roots. | 2 |
I found it difficult to mark just one answer as correct because all are. | I reccomend "Monkey Grass" because it is like a slow growing weed that reproduces slowly and looks nice! | 0 |
Simple answer is yes, flower shoots on lettuce is a sure sign of bolting. | It appears as though it has likely started to bolt. | 3.2 |
Dirt can mean pretty much anything, from good to poor quality soil. | Use coco peat - It's an organic soil derived from coconut husks for garden vegetables and plants which is Eco-friendly. | 1 |
If you can get over the "ick factor," you have an easily-applied source of organic nitrogen fertilizer close at hand. | The NPK numbers on the fertilizer represents the percent, by weight, of Nitrogen, P2O5 and K2O, respectively. | 2 |
The point of aerating your pile is to get oxygen to the microbes that break down the organic matter. | Your pile will compost without turning it, but it goes faster if you turn it. | 2.4 |
I bought a book, which talks about this, so here's an answer to my own question. | Well I wouldn't risk it, not in a cold compost system. | 0 |
Aloes, like most succulents, are very hardy and will withstand considerable neglect . | Some of the guys at my office have potted aloe plants. | 1.6 |
This looks a lot like an invitation to a No True Scottsman argument. | I concur with @T.E.D; the question is a "no True Scotsman" bar bet. | 3.8 |
Some villages had histories and thus names going back to Ancient Roman times. | Many towns and villages took their name from the ruling family, the owners of the village. | 1.2 |
The USA is the world's strongest country because of its military force. | The United States is one of the five largest countries in the world by area. | 2 |
Nearly all countries grew quickly in the 1950s and 1960s for pretty much the same reasons. | The USSR growth rate during the 50's was not exceptionally high. | 1 |
While Queen may refer to both Queen regent (sovereign) or Queen consort, the King has always been the sovereign. | There is a very good reason not to refer to the Queen's spouse as "King" - because they aren't the King. | 2 |
To no extent at all is the wars in the middle east caused by trade making the area heterogeneous. | They had a treaty beginning in 1941, after a few skirmishes along the area in question. | 0.6 |
"What I am really looking for is an estimation of the Muslim population..." @ThanosK and @T.E.D., an overall, general population estimation f.e. | The following is taken from my dog-eared copy of the New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History. | 0 |
In Hinduism and Buddhism there is message of peace and an encouragement to not be materialistic. | This relates to the "discovery" of Asian, and other non-European cultures by Americans. | 0 |
I guess those are greek tickets (εισιτηριον) for excavation sites or museums. | That is indeed Greek Looks like a Ticket to a museum or field. | 3.4 |
These are tickets to the archaeological sites of Epidaurus (which includes the still in use theatre) and Mycenae. | I guess those are greek tickets (εισιτηριον) for excavation sites or museums. | 2.6 |
Looks like you've rediscovered Jaspers's concept of the Axial Age. | There was no influence from China to the culture of Greece. | 0.4 |
Yes, I can tell you from personal experience that they certainly did whistle. | It is true that bombs in World War II would make a whistling sound as they fell. | 2.8 |
By the time that Qin had totally collapsed, Xiang Yu was China's hegemon. | The Han Dynasty came after the Qin Dyansty, after the government under Shi Huang Di collapsed. | 2 |
There were indeed some serious issues surrounding Kennedy's election in 1960, one of the closest elections in History. | As per your original question: The Wikipedia section does not claim that Joseph P Kennedy bought John F Kennedy's victory. | 1.6 |
"The grass family is one of the most widely distributed and abundant groups of plants on Earth. | As noted on the Wiki page, grass seed was imported to the new world to improve pasturage for livestock. | 1.4 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Delhi#Early_history shows that the city was called Delhi (or Dilli) at least since the 12/13th century. | I am not exactly sure but I remember the media (in India) addressing Delhi as "HASTHINA". | 1.2 |
Dominus, plural Domini, in ancient Rome, “master,” or “owner,” particularly of slaves. | A greek-speaking slave (δούλος, doulos) I think would call his master κύριος (translit: kurios; lord, master, sir; vocative form: κύριε). | 2.2 |
The bulk of India then was not controlled by Porus, but by the Nanda dynasty, centered at Pataliputra. | I believe Alexander lost heart after his horse, Bucephelus, died from a wound received in the battle against Porus. | 0.6 |
Yes, this is true and yes, in most cases indefinite articles indeed developed from numerals, as @MGN already said. | Indefinite articles developed from numerals, and the definite articles developed from demonstratives. | 2.6 |
Preserving grammaticality and preserving meaning of the sentence are two different things. | In fact, you can remove pretty much and preserve grammaticality if you don't care about preserving meaning. | 3 |
In some nowadays Indo-European languages you can still see rests of base-20 numeral systems. | Modern Englishes, and many other well-known languages, use base 10 (ie decimal) systems of numerals. | 2.2 |
The difficulty arises not from the various linguistic properties of the language pair as many here suggest. | It depends on generally syntactic structure of two languages and -yes- some pragmatic issues. | 1.8 |
In English, certainly the most common use of do is Do-Support. | In traditional grammar, the word doing is a participle in all your examples. | 0.6 |
A caveat: I'm experiencing the tail end of a three day migraine. | I agree with the commentators that your question is a little confusing. | 0 |
The reason for this is that Russian is a much more tonal language than English. | Although I am quite fluent in Russian, I wouldn't say English sound particularly 'cold' to me. | 1.6 |
Palatalisation of /k/ before front vowels happens all over the place: Russian, Greek, Turkish, Persian etc. | Sinhala, one of the languages spoken in Sri Lanka has a four way deixis system. | 0.8 |
All the same methods of analysis that are used with spoken languages apply successfully to signed languages. | One idea that's been going around at least since the 80s is that you can distinguish between Holds and Moves. | 0.2 |
Newspeak, a "deliberately impoverished" language designed to prevent people from communicating and thinking about subversive ideas. | Every language is permeated by the cultural values in which it is immersed. | 1 |
In Russian, for example, animacy is not clear-cut in the distinction animate/inanimate. | As in Russian, Polish marks animate masculine nouns by having a genitive-accusative vs. the nominative-accusative of inanimate masculines. | 2.8 |
As you can see from this map on the Wals.info site, there are many. | This is an example I always find is helpful for first year. | 0.6 |
Zipf’s law, as I understand it, is not really about languages, but about statistics and probability. | As with all natural laws, Zipf's law is an approximation. | 2.8 |
A part of the question thusfar unattended is whether the concept of phoneme has always been contentious. | "Phoneme" is a theoretical construct which probably can't go away. | 1.6 |
If you arecomming from the non-linguistics environment, the best book is to start with Is Fromkin, Introduction to language. | This is what they recommend at Oxford as introductory textbooks to students starting a Masters' in Linguistics. | 1.4 |
From what I'm seeing it's generally accepted that most English speakers have a vocabulary size of 15000 to 20000 words. | According to a statistical estimation I know roughly 7000 words in English. | 1.4 |
A tent may give you slightly more protection than sleeping out in the open, but not much. | No, a tent will not give you any protection from bears that want what's inside. | 3 |
A few points to add here: Coyotes are not know to be aggressive towards humans. | In general they are not considered dangerous because they rarely attack humans. | 3.2 |
Nylon dries fast, is resistant to ripping and tearing, and fairly breathable. | Nylon, among other synthetics, is an ideal material for clothing for most outdoor pursuits for several reasons. | 2.8 |
GPS (wikipedia) is based on orbiting satellites and so is accurate worldwide. | GPS systems can, and do, work everywhere you can get satellites. | 3.4 |
Different parts of California have different wildlife, so you should probably narrow the region. | American black bears They are somewhat common in some wilderness areas of California, mostly in the mountains. | 2 |
So it's important to have a basic understanding before you even get on skis. | Skiing is a sport where taking lessons pays off very quickly. | 2.8 |
In a gym, the toprope will be wrapped over a cylindrical bar. | Alright, there are several different issues here that we must be sure to address. | 0 |
I visit AZ every summer and include some hikes in the desert when I'm there. | Apart from what has been said, your need of water also depends on what you eat. | 0.2 |
A wonderful woman I know has the Habenera bag by REI (link). | If you can settle on purple Nunatak and Feather Friends have good sleeping bags in those colors. | 0.8 |
An embolism in a medical context refers to any large moving mass or defect in the blood stream. | Here is an interesting article on wikipedia to give overview of pressure related injuries. | 0 |
It would be unusual for a snake to attack a stationary person. | I'm no herpetologist, but in my experience, snakes are in the "you don't bug me, I won't bug you" category. | 4.2 |
As I wrote above, it's hard to rate this wall. | Unlike others, I think the route is pretty well described. | 0.2 |
Once you open it up to toxins, the answer is clearly no, boiling is not enough. | Boiling eliminates only a certain class of contaminants that can make you ill. | 3.2 |
Different parts of California have different wildlife, so you should probably narrow the region. | You can get a rough estimate from using an online calorie estimation website. | 0 |
If you wear a bear bell on your backpack, your fellow hikers will kill you for being annoying. | The above advice is quite good, just wanted to add on thing to consider regarding food in bear country. | 0.6 |
Oh friend, I have been down this miserable road just like you. | Yes, it is accepted practice to wash new Semi-Static rope (or Single Rope Technique/SRT Rope as it is known by cavers). | 0 |
My opinion is to wait for the child to ask for it. | My opinion is to wait until the child itself expresses a desire for this. | 4.8 |
You are safe to use the bottles as long as they have been properly sterilised. | I would say it's completely safe so long as the bottles have been adequately rinsed to remove any detergent residue. | 3.8 |
He is taking the diaper off because he is uncomfortable. | You can try putting the diaper on backwards which may only work for a little while. | 1.8 |
I would recommend asking questions in a way that doesn't require a yes or no answer. | Would you be concerned with the mind changing if he wasn't shouting and/or misbehaving? | 0.4 |
Yes, twins can develop their own language, but it's not a given. | Here's what I saw with my fraternal twins: While learning to speak, all children develop some of their own dialect. | 2.6 |
Whatever you do, don't bite him back to show him that it hurts. | We always lightly bopped our kids on the mouth, therefore showing him that his mouth is what hurt you. | 1.6 |
A rule of thumb that I've heard is "for small children, big dogs". | Any breed of dog can be perfectly safe or extremely dangerous. | 1.4 |
I know of no firm evidence indicating that baby talk is either helpful or detrimental in language development. | Baby talk, when used correctly is beneficial to speech development. | 2 |
A possibility is to have a family meeting with the stated goal of working out the reward(s) for chores. | Many children, instead of being motivated by reward are motivated by being in control. | 1.8 |
The point is to get the air out that the infant sucks into the stomach while feeding. | I've found with my baby that it's more accurate to go by his behavior than by "rules". | 1.2 |
You should have a consultation route with the school head which can lead to direct consultation with a health professional. | It is always difficult when parents refuse to see what seems obvious to a teacher. | 0.8 |
You will be hard pressed to find scientific studies that answer these questions with any certainty. | The topics you mention are very broad and not closely related in the scientific world. | 2.2 |
Although cheese is very healthy and also good during pregnancy, some types might contain Listeria, which can cause serious problems. | As was mentioned, the problem with cheese is the potential for Listeria. | 3.2 |
Both of our children slept in a portable pen for at least their first year, and there were no problems. | Yours looks like the one we used for my kids (same brand and everything). | 1.4 |
I have never read anything that said teethers were bad--where did you read that? | We used a clean cloth or baby sock wrapped around an ice cube with our kids and grandkids. | 1.4 |
I'm facing a similar situation; being Danish and living in (German-speaking) Austria. | An alternative would be to expose her solely or additionally to Hindi in daycare. | 0 |
My son didn't become potty trained until about his 4th birthday. | Here are some things that worked with my son who started toilet training around 2.5 years. | 1.6 |
Show her how much fun splashing is - that's what we did, and made a game of it. | You can put her toys near her or give he toys to her. | 0.8 |
Our daughter has always loved her bath, but coming out... not so much. | My wife and I originally had the same problem with our newborn twins fussing when bath time was over. | 2.8 |
Playing doctor is something all kids want to try at some point. | I have been in a simular situation with my daughter and a female friend when they were 5 and 4. | 1.8 |
Most doctors do recommend rice cereal as the first food, as there is almost no worry of allergic reaction. | Eating off a spoon has to be an unusual experience for them. | 0.67 |
Most of the literature I can find about infant sleeping has to do primarily with waking habits, not eating habits. | In my experience, babies tend to wake up by themselves when they get hungry. | 2.6 |
Here is my advice based on my personal experience pumping breastmilk for twin boys for a full year. | I understand that the first 3 days are the most important, so much so it is vital you do it then. | 0.4 |
It is possible, but it will have to be a docile female betta and a bigish tank. | We tried putting a male betta in a community tank once. | 2.4 |
Turtles love eating goldfish and lots of things that fit into their mouths. | First, the turtles are eating the fish because fish are food, not friends. | 2.8 |
Given that the amount of shedding is normal, I don't think there's anything you can do to lessen it. | To reduce the amount of fur a cat malts over your furniture and clothes you could try a deshedder brush. | 2 |
My experience with Danios has that they always have been "bossy" fish. | Breed Zebra Danios are extremely hardy fish, they are almost difficult to kill. | 3 |
I have seen cats not like using the litterbox for a variety of reasons. | I think Keltari has some good ideas.... A cat can change its "taste" in litter material. | 2.6 |
Cats (and all animals in general) do not understand the concepts of order or tidiness. | They don't intend to leave those items around the house or untidy the house. | 1.8 |
It does sound like your cat is upset about something, and trying to communicate it to you. | Something is bothering your cat and he does not like it. | 3.8 |
I have noticed most cats don't lick people a great deal. | Cats may or may not lick a person based on all kinds of things. | 3 |
How could be you so sure that the fish died a natural death. | In my 200 L fresh water tank, which is an aggressive tank, fish occasionally get harassed to death. | 1.4 |
First, double-check the dog's body language to make sure that it is truly aggressive. | First, you should realize that this is not you or your dog's problem. | 1.6 |
The appropriate pH level of the water does vary a bit by fish, but too acidic can definitely kill them. | The info you've been given in the previous answers is good. | 0 |
My guess is that means your cat only marginally likes the food you're feeding him. | Some researchers believe domestic cats never really mentally grow up completely and they always look at you like their mom. | 0.6 |
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