Sentences with phrase «leaves in a thick layer»

Spreading leaves in a thick layer around the base of perennial plants and shrubs helps to protect their roots from winter temperatures.

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In hindsight, I would up the custard and banana layer, but leave the crust and the peanut butter cream topping as is in the recipe (the crust seemed a bit thick, and the peanut butter layer is VERY richIn hindsight, I would up the custard and banana layer, but leave the crust and the peanut butter cream topping as is in the recipe (the crust seemed a bit thick, and the peanut butter layer is VERY richin the recipe (the crust seemed a bit thick, and the peanut butter layer is VERY rich).

Some growers believe that grass clippings are particularly helpful because thick layers of them can be thoroughly saturated to increase the humidity around pepper leaves and flowers in dry weather.

According to Peter Groffman, a microbial ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y., northern hardwood forests have relied on thick layers of leaf litter that serve as a rooting medium.

When the floodwaters evaporated, the millimetre of silt left behind became the youngest stratum in a succession of sediment layers that is today about 1.5 kilometres thick.

What's left is a thin layer of glass supported by an inch - thick honeycomb structure that is three feet deep at the perimeter and 18 inches in the center.

Before worms invade, the soil in a typical northern forest is blanketed by a thick layer of leaf litter and other organic material.

The plants would have been laid out beneath and under the bodies, in a layer that was thick enough to prevent other objects in the grave from leaving their own imprints in the mud.

Grasses, for instance, develop thicker leaves, which are able to utilize the direct sunlight in the upper layer of a meadow while clover species sprout larger but thinner leaves to absorb the weaker light close to the ground more effectively.

It also means that the graphite left behind by a pencil — stripped down to a layer one atom thick — can be used to prove the theories scrawled in pencil by physicists of old.

«We have revealed the presence of a waxy layer in the envelope surrounding the embryo in mature seeds, similar to the cuticle of leaves, but ten times thicker,» says Sylvain Loubéry, a researcher at UNIGE.

Sundaram added a copper - and - ceramic heater, which was necessary to deposit the semiconducting plastic: The plastic is suspended in a fluid that's sprayed onto the device surface, and the heater evaporates the fluid, leaving behind a layer of plastic only 200 nanometers thick.

The flowers grow to around three to six inches (8 - 15 cm) in diameter and consist of layers of thick leaves or scales and eventually a mass of thin purple petals on the top.

Simply cut the loaf in half horizontally and scoop out the soft bread from the center of each half (this will leave you with 1/2 inch thick shell to make the sandwich easier to make), Toss the honey mustard and coleslaw together until coated, layer the chicken and coleslaw onto the bread and cut into sandwiches.

The artist prepares his paint to be thick, opaque, self - evident, and its application serves both to conceal and reveal the medium: he leaves layers open and corners unfinished in order expose the already - active underpainting.

Early in her career Howard began utilising common household gloss paint, leaving it to separate in the can so that the colour pigment sinks beneath a layer of thick, sumptuous varnish.