How to Use growing season in a Sentence

growing season

noun
  • Go too far north and the growing season is too short.
    — Katherine Laidlaw, HubSpot, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This gives you a head start on the growing season.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Get a head start on the growing season.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Morels can have about a three week growing season but most don’t last that long.
    — Matthew Every, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The two big ones are the length of the growing season and the amount of pollen in the air.
    — Levi Keller, The Conversation, 5 May 2026
  • Dig up tender bulbs in the fall and store them for the next growing season.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2025
  • These plants enrich the soil for the next growing season.
    — Alice Cason, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The short growing season peaks in April and May.
    — Midwest Living, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Then be sure the plant gets watered deeply when the soil is dry; do this through the growing season.
    — Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Farms have to find other ways to make a buck outside growing season.
    — Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2026
  • One of the many pleasures and essences of the outdoor growing season is basil.
    — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 11 June 2024
  • Here's what to do with fading zinnias at the end of the growing season.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
  • At the end of the growing season, straw mulch helps improve your garden soil.
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 June 2022
  • Many of them start signups well before the growing season begins, so keep an eye out!
    — Heather Zidack, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The summer growing season can sometimes feel like a long game.
    — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Free compost can improve the chances of a bumper crop this growing season.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • To find the answers would take me four or five months of a growing season in the real world.
    — Matt Alderton, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
  • This longer, hotter growing season also opened the door to new vines.
    — Alexandra Gillespie, AFAR Media, 23 June 2025
  • However, a hard freeze puts an end to the growing season.
    — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Spring is also known as the growing season, which is when plants begin to bloom once again.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 27 Apr. 2023
  • But climate change has been shrinking glaciers, and in turn the growing season.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2024
  • These bulbs are spent after one growing season and won't rebloom.
    — Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2023
  • From diesel prices to urea, farmers are feeling the pinch this growing season.
    — Kelly McCarthy, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • The cold will be short-lived but should be enough to end the growing season, outside of some of the mildest spots.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The best time to dethatch your lawn is during peak growing season when the soil is moist — not wet.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The best time to do so is in the spring, right ahead of the growing season, says Kandra.
    — Nashia Baker, Martha Stewart, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Next, trim back the branch tips that were produced during the last growing season by about one-third.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Feb. 2026
  • For a head start on the growing season, start new plants indoors from seed in early to mid-spring.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The growing season may be winding down for the year, but that doesn’t mean that planting time is through.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2025
  • When there are enough warm days in spring, those buds pop open, signaling the start of the growing season.
    — Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2026

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