Sentences with phrase «added organic matter»

We added organic matter from earlier experiments to both sands.

Although a challenge, weeds can actually have beneficial qualities: «They add organic matter to the soil when they are turned under, they keep the ground covered and they contribute to the richness of the root zone where an abundance of beneficial microbial activity takes place» (7).

The grasses are well known for their ability to add organic matter to tired soils whose nutrients have been depleted by years of farming.

Plants that add organic matter and nutrients when they decompose replenish the soil.

Moistened peat moss dug into the soil increases acid and adds organic matter.

Current farming methods erode and degrade topsoil, but we could reverse that by adopting methods that are less disturbing to the soil and plant roots and by more use of cover crops or «green manures» that add organic matter to the soil, increase soil fertility and water retention, and reduce pests and diseases.

In addition, farmers can add organic matter to soil and control water runoff, improving water retention and soil fertility.

So the optimistic part is this is the chance to fix it — adding some organic matter, preparing the soil.

To neutralize, add organic matter.

Not exact matches

Even with an organic geo - targted post on the national brand page to a location tends to net better results than on a local page, especially if you do have some level of critical mass with fans (yep having fans on some level does matter); but then when you talk about adding $ to a geo - targted post from that national brand page, the numbers are not even close, the local page is not worth it

Traditions of every kind, hoarded and manifested in gesture and language, in schools, libraries, museums, bodies of law and religion, philosophy and science — everything that accumulates, arranges itself, recurs and adds to itself, becoming the collective memory of the human race — all this we may see as no more than an outer garment, an epiphenomenon precariously superimposed upon all the other edifices of Nature (the only truly organic ones, as it may appear): but it is precisely this optical illusion which we have to overcome if our realism is to reach to the heart of the matter.

You think the miracles of creation (existence) in Genesis are less credible than a quantum flux out of a weak gravitational field resulted in organic matter simply by adding a time function.

It's no longer simply a matter of reaching for full cream, light or skim milk; nowadays you have to navigate labels claiming everything from high calcium to low saturated fat, and from added omega - 3 to A2 proteins — not to mention the growing organic milk market.

But in the future, if soil nutrients are exhausted by the flush of new growth, CO2 generated by the decomposition of organic matter long trapped in the soil could end up adding to the overall concentrations of that planet - warming gas.

The results of the experiment showed that organic matter in soil was heavily influenced by the type of supplemental nitrogen added.

Manure and pulse crops also add more organic matter to the soil, a benefit not realized using synthetic fertilizers.

«The spreading of organic fertilizer, another important source of organic matter, is also falling as a result,» adds Wiesmeier.

Heat might be expected to harm a crop (or force farms to move poleward), but added carbon dioxide, which all plants use to make organic matter, might act as a fertilizer.

In the Mediterranean city of Nice, chlorine has not been added to water for the past 100 years because it is naturally free of organic matter.

The decaying organic matter adds the necessary heat to hatch the brood.

We therefore ended up with pots with all possible combinations with the exception of organic matter which was added to all of the pots.

Dr Wren Montgomery, co-author of the study from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering, added: «The study is helping us to see that when organic matter is observed on Mars, no matter where, it must be considered whether the sample could have been affected by the pressures associated with blast impacts.

But if you think about the fact that these coffee containers are made of three different types of material and are stuffed with compostable organic matter, it's easy to see the environmental impact add up.

38 A number of these agricultural practices can have the added benefit of increasing the carbon stored as organic matter in soils.

However they add that «a major question that needs an urgent answer is how enough organic matter can be made available to produce significant amounts of biochar.

Almost all carbon added to the system naturally comes from decaying organic matter.

The idea is that, over time, the mulch will break down anyway, but with added nutrients from human urine it will not just provide organic matter to the soil, but a dose of valuable nutrients with no need for turning the compost heap or spreading out the end result.

I would just add one more bit to the genealogy of Cockburn's AGW denial: his apparent faith — similarly drawn from a single sage — that petroleum is itself a renewable resource, produced not from ancient organic matter but from some alchemical (or mystical) process deep in the earth's crust.

Finally, add a layer of mulch, bark or rotted organic matter to feed the soil and suppress weeds.