Sentences with phrase «mulch from»

Not only do they add charm and character to your garden landscaping, they're extremely practical too, separating weeds from flower beds and mulch from lawns as well as providing a clean line for extra-efficient mowing and trimming.

They kick all mulch from garden beds into piles on garden paths.

Keep mulching materials about six inches from siding, to prevent mulch from wicking moisture to the siding and causing rot.

You can, of course, buy mulch from the garden store (I have been using bales of pine straw this year), but there are also plenty of readily - available free materials that can be put to use.

The doting owner of two young lab mixes purchased Cocoa Mulch from Target to use in their garden.

In this way, the Unity Gardens and cocoa mulch from Davis Chocolate contribute to a positive network of accountability locally.

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Not exact matches

What he took was basic information from various sources and kind of mulched it in his mind.

The super dome was the toughest to build, but thanks to some clever tricks from Prospera Housing's Board Chairman Darrell Denning, it was soon complete and on its way to its new home in the mulch.

Another cause of drying is evaporation from the top of the soil, which can be controlled with a mulch of grass clippings — but then it's hard to see how wet the soil is.

Instead of plowing, farmers leave crop residue on fields after the harvest where it acts as a mulch to protect soil from erosion and a source of organic matter.

In the Coffee Factory wet method, 80 % pulp is separated «usually to be dried and used as arabica tree mulch» from the Kona coffee cherry after harvesting and the Kona bean is dried with only the parchment skin left on.

New York's diplomatic salons are a long way from the heatwaves and frosts of South Australian farming, of spreading mulch and double and late pruning, of buying more expensive water, of gambling your livelihood on crops and weather and human ingenuity.

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It's called IRT Mulch (for Infra - Red Transmitting) and it is available from mail order companies and garden shops.

mulching heavily, with a mix of this and that, whatever we have - last year's leaves, wood chips where appropriate, and the prettiest mulch of all - belly wool from our sheep (that's what's in between the bean poles above).

The Chicago Park District will accept trees for mulching on Jan. 9 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wires, tinsel and other decorations should be removed from the trees.

Lyman Woods: Volunteers are needed to spread mulch on trails, attack invasive vegetation and harvest prairie seeds from 9 until 11:30 a.m. at the Lyman Woods Forest Preserve, 31st Street and Highland Avenue in Downers Grove.

It performs really well from sidewalks to playground mulch.

Last spring, a class of fifth - grade students from Bancroft Elementary School in the District descended on the South Lawn of the White House to help us dig, mulch, water and plant our very first kitchen garden.

We were at a party last weekend and we were exhausted having to herd her away from the deck stairs, run after her to grab mulch out of her mouth every time she went to the playground, and then spotting her up and down the stairs over and over and over.

Three main water quality issues were cited by Mr. Cuomo during his 20 - minute speech: an underground plume left by Northrup Grumman in Nassau county that measures one - by - three miles wide, runoff from mulching facilities on Long Island (of which there are 65) and saltwater intrusion.

It's recommended this fabric be covered with several inches of mulch to protect it from direct sunlight.

But now earthworms are back, a product of fishers who toss their worms into the forest, of off - road vehicles and lumber trucks that carry them in the treads of their tires, and of people who bring in mulch and any worms that might be in it from other areas.

Fragrance wafts from eons of mulch.

To address environmental concerns, commercial vegetable growers are increasingly interested in using organic mulches derived from agricultural or urban byproducts and waste, paper - based mulches, and biodegradable plastic films and fabrics as alternatives.

«Despite the positive results shown through research, the successful transition from nondegradable plastic mulch to biodegradable plastic mulch use in agriculture, ultimately, will be grower driven,» said Jeremy Cowan, lead author of a study appearing in HortTechnology.

«We chose white clover particularly to use as living mulch because it has the capability to regrow and reestablish itself when the conditions are right, and to perpetuate itself from year to year,» says Nicholas Hill, lead researcher.

They found that evaporation of water from the soil surface significantly decreased with increasing aggregate mulch thickness.

Measures such as reforestation, creating hillside terraces, maintaining continuous soil cover with vegetation and mulches, and reclaiming gullies can help protect the soil from heavy rain.

So what do we, as responsible principals acting as the buffer — a filtering system to prevent teacher overload from splintering our personnel into fragments so small they become no more than bark mulch in denim — do to our staffs?

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You can add mulch for next to nothing by buying bales of straw from nearby farmers or using shredded newspaper printed with non-toxic vegetable ink.

Do deter your dog from digging Fill your dog's favorite hole with dog poop and then cover it with dirt or lay chicken wire under gravel, mulch or decorative bark.

Analysis: No question about it, chocolate and other products made from cacao beans — e.g., cocoa mulch — contain substances toxic to certain animals, including both dogs and cats.

Made from spent cocoa beans used in chocolate production, cocoa bean mulch is organic, deters slugs and snails, and gives a garden an appealing chocolate smell.

Other aversion deterrents are usually scent - based — some folks have had success keeping cats away from garden beds with things like citrus peels and eucalyptus, and recently I've seen people using mulch as a deterrent.

An item known as cocoa mulch, made from the hulls of the cocoa bean, is used in landscaping and also contains this chemical.

Coco bean mulch: Coco bean mulch is made from discarded shells of cocoa beans.

Cocoa bean mulch is made from cocoa shells and it is a very popular gardening product.

One type of mulch that should be avoided if you have pets is cocoa bean mulch, which is made from discarded cocoa shells from chocolate production.

Adding pinecones or large bark mulch to garden areas will also deter cats from spraying.

• To prevent dogs from digging up bulbs or garden areas, place chicken wire (or wire mesh with openings large enough to allow plants to grow through) on the ground, anchor it with rocks and cover with mulch.

Sweep up leaves, keep lawns short, limit the use of mulch, fence off areas of the yard that are warm and dark and protected from the elements (such as under the house or veranda and down the side of the house).

Use pinecones, lava rocks, concrete pavers or stones as mulch to prevent cats from digging.

They discovered the mulch was made of cocoa bean shells, the leftovers from the manufacture of chocolate.

Sugar Cane: Saccharuum officinarum BEACHCOMBERS TIP: The residue (thrash) from grinding the cane at a sugar factory is known as «bagash» and is used as a fertilizing mulch.

From there, you can basically do whatever you'd like whether that's mulch down zombies or work through the story.

The platform a wildly colorful and intricately - patterned combination of custom cut and colored industrial steel and molded fiberglass grating emerges from a shock of colored rubber mulch to spread itself across the lawn, enveloping a tree and stretching to reach the pathway surrounding the Oval Lawn.