Sentences with phrase «leaves bare soil»
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.
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In places where the ground is bare — from overgrazing or from the common practice of leaving fields unplanted for part of the year — photosynthesis stops, and so does the storage of carbon in the soil.
And since annual fields are left fallow over winter, the bare soil erodes and leaches fertilizer into streams.
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 you know anything about soil biology, carbon farming or even just permaculture, you'd know that destroying soil structure and leaving it bare is non-ideal, as far as the soil food web is concerned.
Our bare surface soil has gotten wet, frozen, cracked and expanded into a froth, letting weed seeds in and leaving us subject to dust storms.