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Plants

Emerging Squash and Pumpkins

The technique for planting summer squashes, winter squashes, and pumpkins is the same. Grow all squashes on hills spaced 3 to 8 feet apart depending upon the leaf size–the larger the leaf the farther apart. Set seedlings started indoors in the garden as soon as the weather has warmed. Make sure squashes are large and

Plants

Increase Strawberry Crowns, Division, and Roots

Planting a strawberry runner Strawberry plants are perennials. A strawberry plant will bear fruit for 2 to 3 years. A single plant will send you several runners towards the end of each season; these runners easily establish themselves as new, independent plants. There are many varieties of strawberry. Some can be started from seed but

Plants

Emerging Sweet Corn

Grow corn in the warm time of the year. Direct sow corn after all danger of frost has passed. Make succession sowings for a continuous harvest throughout the growing season. Three types of sweet corn Corn growing starts with deciding which type of corn to plant: standard, sugar-enhanced, or super-sweet. Standard sweet corn varieties (sometimes

Plants

Soil Trying out Basics

A soil test will tell you if the soil in your garden is rich or poor in minerals and nutrients/ Plants depend upon soil nutrients and moisture for growth. If the soil in your garden lacks nutrients, plants will grow poorly or die. The relative acidity or alkalinity affects how soil nutrients become available to

Finance

Conduit IRA Definition

What Is a Conduit IRA? A conduit IRA is an account used to roll over funds from a qualified retirement plan to another qualified plan. Typically, the intention of using this type of individual retirement account (IRA) is to store assets until they can be rolled over into a new employer’s qualified plan. A conduit

Finance

Conduit Issuer Definition

What Is a Conduit Issuer? A conduit issuer is an organization, usually a government agency, that issues municipal securities to raise capital for revenue-generating projects where the funds generated are used by a third party (known as the “conduit borrower”) to invest in some project or activity that has a public benefit. The conduit financing

Finance

Conduit Thought

What Is Conduit Theory? Conduit theory is a theory stating that an investment company that passes all capital gains, interest, and dividends on to its shareholders shouldn’t be taxed at the corporate level like most regular companies. Most mutual funds qualify as a regulated investment company, which gives them conduit status and requires them to

Finance

Confession of Judgment Definition

What Is a Confession of Judgment? A confession of judgment is a written agreement, signed by the defendant, that accepts the liability and amount of damages that was agreed on. A confession of judgment is a way to circumvent normal court proceedings and avoid a lengthy legal process to resolve a dispute. Signing such a

Finance

What Is a Self belief Duration and How Do You Calculate It?

What Is a Confidence Interval? A confidence interval, in statistics, refers to the probability that a population parameter will fall between a set of values for a certain proportion of times. Analysts often use confidence intervals than contain either 95% or 99% of expected observations. Thus, if a point estimate is generated from a statistical

Finance

Confirmation Bias Definition

What Is Confirmation Bias? Confirmation bias is a term from the field of cognitive psychology that describes how people naturally favor information that confirms their previously existing beliefs. Experts in the field of behavioral finance find that this fundamental principle applies to investors in notable ways. Because investors seek out information that confirms their existing

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