That is what ‘automation’ often is. You take a working process, then let machines do as many steps in that process as you can. Harvesting crops, sending memos, robots spraypainting car parts, self driving cars (We still have a lot to do there)

Building on that it gets even more interesting as we try to find better, or even completely new processes.

Not sure if it can be done for all plants, but it can certainly work for some. It’s called Grafting.

See wikipedia

Just updated apps on my phone. Appears to be doing three updates at once. Still, a huge improvement.

Same in Dutch: aardappel (aard=earth, appel=apple)

You are wrong, till is perfectly fine – and so is til. See Merriam-Websters article about this, at https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/should-you-use-until-or-till-or-til