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am planting

  • present progressive
    of plant (1st person singular).
    plant
    noun
    any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or the use of photosynthesis.

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"I know I am planting to harvest tomorrow ... it gives a lot of pleasure to work in a garden, it is a job that we enjoy, I love this."

From Reuters ● Dec. 5, 2021

Well, I am planting potatoes in my little garden, and hope to reap the benefit of them.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones

‘I,’ said the giant, ‘am Chi-gwísa-míti, and I am planting these bao-babs and thorns as food for my children the elephants.’

From The Orange Fairy Book by Various

I am planting at least 400 trees to the acre as interplants in a grafted walnut orchard.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 by Northern Nut Growers Association

I consider the Winesap the best, as it has paid me the best, and I am planting for winter profit only these two.

From The Apple by Various