Sentences with phrase «bare soil»

Ideally site your compost bin in a reasonably sunny site on bare soil.

But it may take magic to resolve a long - running debate over what causes the oddly regular spots of bare soil called fairy circles.

Observations and results Did you find more soil was washed away from the bread pan or shoebox filled with bare soil?

Plant grass over bare soil or use mulch or wood chips.

Oregano: Due to its shorter stature, oregano grows well around peppers without competing for space, covers bare soil, and is a great complement to many dishes that also include peppers.

WHODUNIT Called fairy circles, the mysterious patches of bare soil in the Namib Desert may form thanks to a mix of fighting termites and competing plants, scientists propose.

Marketable yield of cucumber trended highest in the most durable and opaque biofabric, but was not significantly different from weed - free bare soil.

It took Asner and his team eight years to develop a technique that can detect and quantify selective logging by analyzing each pixel in the image for spectral data — which contains information about the extent of vegetation in the forest canopy, the amount of debris on the forest floor and how much bare soil is exposed — while also taking into consideration climate conditions.

Flea control with nematodes was least on natural turf and best on bare soil surfaces that had adequate moisture.

The dust storms themselves resulted from a combination of dry conditions, poor land use practices, and large scale crop failures that exposed easily erodible bare soil to the strong winds of the Great Plains.

Rosemary: Rosemary can be a great addition to your culinary herbs, while also serving as a groundcover plant to minimize bare soil and high evaporation rates.

They went on to explain that as the oil penetrates the vegetation, it kills it and leaves bare soil to be washed away, which will decimate this once vital and productive eco-system.

Repeat the previous step with the other cake pan, block and bread pan so you have two identical setups: one where the soil contains forks (substitute plants) and another with bare soil.

These insects will enter your compost bin from the soil in your garden; therefore it is recommended that your composting bin is situated on bare soil.

Soil moisture in ERA5 also benefits from other documented changes, including enhanced evaporation over bare soil, the introduction of seasonality for vegetation and a new snow hydrology.

Parsley: Growing parsley around pepper plants not only helps you get a second edible from almost the same amount of space, but also serves to provide some shade and cover for bare soil.

Cally's succulent linocut has also been paired with a planted succulent to give the viewer a clear reference point, and even a small detail like using pebbles on the surface of the planter rather than bare soil has been considered.

All biomulches suppressed weed emergence relative to bare soil, but weeds were visibly growing beneath the most translucent biofabric.

To learn more about the field performance, durability, and decomposition properties of biofabric, the researchers designed experiments to compare four experimental spunbond, nonwoven biofabrics with two commercially available bioplastic mulch films and a bare soil control.

As a result, you probably collected more eroded soil from rain falling on the bare soil.

Results showed that the bioplastics and biofabrics increased soil moisture relative to bare soil.

This is ponding water after rainfall in wheel tracks of the bare soil treatment one year after compaction.

Gentine's team is the first to isolate the response of vegetation from the global warming total complex response, which includes such variables for the water cycle as evapotranspiration (the water evaporated from the surface, both from plants and bare soil) soil moisture, and runoff.

And since annual fields are left fallow over winter, the bare soil erodes and leaches fertilizer into streams.

If we replace less productive plants or bare soil with highly productive plants, ** all else being equal **, the surface will have a cooler temperature.

Desert and bare soil have a higher albedo than forests or grass.

VOICEOVER: This was bare soil, all the way over to there, bare soil!

For each land grid cell in the model the percentage of needleleaf and broadleaf forest, grassland, shrubs, urban and bare soil are given.

Squash: Both summer and winter squash can be grown near peppers, where their large leaves can help keep the sun off the bare soil and keep weeds down.

If we replace less productive plants or bare soil with highly productive plants, ** all else being equal **, the surface will have a cooler temperature.

Even grass - fed beef «depletes native biodiversity, increases invasive exotics, diverts water, fouls streams, and bares the soil,» according to Mary O'Brien, director of the Utah Forests Program.

In general, trees are darker than grasses, which are darker than bare soil.

Construction will sometimes require scraping native vegetation down to bare soil, despoiling fragile, carbon - sequestering ecosystems.

Your site should be level, well - drained and ideally on bare soil to give easy access to worms, who helpfully break down the contents.