Sentences with phrase «when soil»

I'd say try watering once every week or when the soil is dry to touch.

Move it to a sunnier location, and water when the soil is dry.

I was told to water these succulents when the soil is dry.

You can't grow a beautiful, healthy, respected - by - passers - by flower garden when the soil is full of weeds that have had their seeds deposited therein in with every passing day... even when there is no wind.

The copy for the ad stated «this nifty gizmo, shaped like a frog, detects when soil gets too dry, and gives a croak to let you know it's time to water.»

You can also plant transplants when the soil is at around 40 degrees, so if you find cool season veggie transplants at your local garden center, feel free to go ahead and plant them in your low tunnel.

Back when the soil researchers were setting up their Harvard forest plots in 1991, Earth - system science and soil - health science were completely different fields.

When soil is naturally healthy, more carbon dioxide is pulled under the soil of the world's farmland and helps fight global warming.

When the soil «dies» all the CO2 in the world can not make plants grow at that place.

This information will help us be ready when the soil is actually needed.

«When the soil is wet, part of the sun's energy is diverted from warming the soil to vaporizing its moisture,...»

When the soil is wet, part of the sun's energy is diverted from warming the soil to vaporizing its moisture, creating a cooling effect.

The natural variation that has led us out of the Little Ice Age has a bit of frosting on the cake by land use; and, part of that land use has resulted in a change in vegetation and soil CO2 loss so that we see a rise in CO2 and the CO2 continues to rise without a temperature accompaniment (piano player went to take a leak), as the land use has all but gobbled up most of the arable land North of 30N and we are starting to see low till farming and some soil conservation just beginning when the soil will again take up the CO2, and the GMO's will increase yields, then CO2 will start coming down on its own and we can go to bed listening to Ave Maria to address another global crisis to get the populous all scared begging governments to tell us much ado about... nothing.

Instead of forming normal single - stemmed trees, most post-fire black spruces in the Rivière Boniface area are growing as stunted individuals in the form of multi-stemmed clones (Bégin & Filion 1999; Laberge et al. 2001), spreading in all directions when soil topography is uniform, thus forming circular, elliptic or elongated features.

So when the soil is exposed, in many ways it is crying out for help, it is naked and it needs to be clothed.

When soil first forms or is deposited in an area, it is often loosely packed.

When soil loses carbon, it also loses moisture retention.

That means you studied soil science when soil scientists barely knew the difference between dirt and soil and sure as shark chum didn't understand the role of mycelium, the true roles of microbes, etc..

When soil moisture exceeds 20 %, there's a high mortality in flea larvae.

When the soil is disturbed from building, gardening or strong winds, spores are released into the air.

When in the soil, the mold form of Blasto releases thousands of microscopic spores that are cast away in the dust or dirt which is stirred up when the soil is disturbed.

The strands are very delicate, and when the soil is disturbed — by digging, walking, construction, high winds — the strands break apart into tiny individual spores called arthroconidia or arthrospores.

When the soil has been disturbed, the fungus can become airborne, resulting in inhalation.

When the soil is not supportive, the seed's value becomes a waste!

I was delighted when the Soil Association - led Food for Life Partnership was recently awarded the prestigious BBC Radio 4 Derek Cooper Award.

And if you travel, they are great as a house plant, as you only have water when the soil is dry.

When soil is depleted of its natural matrix of microorganisms, our food is depleted of vitamins and minerals.

I'd say try watering once every week or when the soil is dry to touch.

Water philodendrons enough when the soil surface dries.

If it's drooping when the soil is wet, it's pot - bound and needs to be trimmed or repotted.

Earthquakes cause a variety of earthquake hazards, including ground shaking, landslides, liquefaction (when soil liquefies during shaking) and tsunami.

All types of earthquakes can trigger landslides and liquefaction (when soil liquefies during shaking).

But when soil and water is contaminated by an industrial accident in an undeveloped region of the world, who collects the evidence?

A septic system near a well also can cause contamination when the soil is flooded.

We also review the hazards associated with earthquakes — the ground shaking, liquefaction (when soil liquefies during shaking), landslides and tsunami that can follow an earthquake and affect residents, homes, businesses and the economy of a region.

We propose a system of synthetic bio cementing where engineered cells, living within a soil matrix, respond to pore pressure changes in their environment when the soil is loaded, by synthesizing new material and strengthening the soil.

Published in 2012, the paper finds that scientists haven't yet come to a conclusion on what happens when soil freezes or gets very dry.

Depending on where you live in the Cascadia region, an earthquake may cause ground shaking, landslides, soil liquefaction (when soil liquefies during shaking), tsunamis, fires, hazardous material spills and building damage.

The daily electrical - capacitance variations decreased when soil moisture was below the wilting point and completely ceased below the soil volumetric water content of 11 percent, suggesting that the effect of water stress on electrical capacitance was observed through its impact on photosynthesis.

The daily leaf - thickness variations were minor, with no significant day - to - day changes when soil moisture contents ranged from high to wilting point.

When soil's pH value creeps downward, it becomes prone to diseases and pests that stunt plant growth.

Cover crops are grown in the months between main crops when the soil would otherwise be bare.

Named HCR1, this gene reduces water entry into the roots when there's a lack of oxygen, but only when the soil is also rich in potassium, a mineral salt essential for plant growth.

Even human life and property are jeopardized when soil erosion causes mud - and landslides.

Fox's research, funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA, was designed to test his theory that rubber trees, which are exotics from the South America, differ from native vegetation in that they suck up most of their water when the soil is the driest at the beginning of the monsoon season.

Star of the show at the AGU meeting was the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) experiment, which can sniff the atmosphere and can analyse the gases given off when soil samples are heated to as much as 1100 °C.

The differences remained even when soil conditions and rainfall were controlled for.

Switchgrass and prairie cordgrass, both native perennial grasses grown for biomass, come out of dormancy when the soil warms up for a week or more, usually in April.

The infections spread easily when soil is contaminated with human feces that contain worm eggs.

In the 1950s, when the Soil Conservation Service (now known as the Natural Resources Conservation Service) began defining tolerable rates of soil erosion from agricultural land, hardly any data on rates of soil production were available.