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Definition of thinnings in English: thinningsplural nounˈθɪnɪŋz Seedlings, trees, or fruit which have been removed to improve the growth of those remaining. Example sentencesExamples - Harvest the first thinnings as soon as four weeks later.
- The launch of the plant is not only seen as providing a green energy source, but also as a valuable market for forest thinnings.
- It is proposed that the waste timber product would be obtained from local forestry residues, including thinnings.
- It will use sawdust, bark and woodchips together with forest thinnings to generate heat for the sawmill's timber drying operations.
- You don't need every tree to be of good form as many of them will be removed early in the life of the crop as thinnings.
- If you grow your own radishes, use the thinnings from your garden in salads.
- I recommend filling a bowl with sliced young leeks, whole carrot and beetroot thinnings, tender spinach leaves, small florets of raw cauliflower, fresh peas from the pod, and a clump of ginger mint and flat leaf parsley.
- The seedlings you remove can go straight on the compost heap, or in the case of some veg, such as lettuce and beets, the thinnings can be eaten.
- Spring onions are well suited to growing in pots on the deck; the thinnings are useful; and they are hardy.
- At a later stage of growth, young rape thinnings are sometimes sold as spring greens.
- Thin seedlings when they're 2 inches tall; use thinnings in salads and continue harvesting all season.
- There is enough room left for a stall-fed cow and a few pigs, which he feeds with thinnings from his vegetable beds.
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