Sentences with phrase «of damp soil»

Not exact matches

Leeks are a staple in Irish soups and stews because the long, green members of the onion family thrive in poor soil and cool, damp climates.

The soil should be kept damp for the duration of the solarization because hot, damp soil will kill more resting fungal spores than dry soil.

We're a couple of weeks late on that, but our ground was not prepared and it was still very damp on our clay soil!

Genetic studies suggest that liverworts — humble, stumpy plants related to mosses, which now commonly grow on damp soils — are the most ancient group of plants alive today.

Observations and results Did most of the sow bugs or pill bugs end up in the damp soil environment?

After about 30 minutes you may have even seen several of the little crustaceans actually dig down into the damp soil and settle in there.

The tinkling sound of peas falling on a plate is helping a Dutch researcher to select peas most suitable for sowing in the cold, damp soil of the Netherlands.

It was thus reduced to feeding off the work of others — grubbing in the soil to devour dead animals, fallen leaves, and damp wood.

Damping off, a disease characterized by the rot of roots and stems, is often a result of the fungus Rhizoctonia solani, and occurs when the rhizomes have been planted in soil that does not drain well.

Fungal infections are more common in hunting dogs because of exposure to fungal organisms in the soil, especially in wooded or warm, damp climates.

We find a close agreement between the CESM - based hindcasts and the Markov model, indicating that the largest contribution to the predictive skill of soil water on interannual to decadal timescales in CESM can be attributed to the damped persistence, which is partly governed by the evapotranspiration (Delworth and Manabe 1988), the total runoff, and the diffusion of soil moisture into the deeper soil levels as shown in the Eq.

For such empirical forecasts regionally depth - dependent damping rates \ (\ lambda (x, y, z) \) could be derived from the lag - 1 autocorrelation of long term observational records of water storage and soil moisture.

This is essential investment intelligence for a property investor, ensuring that the investor does not end up with a property with problems that simply can not be fixed, such as serious structural problems, cracks and shifts resulting from problems with the foundations or local geology; drainage, flooding or damp problems due to poor sitting; and signs of serious soil erosion or land slippage.

Drop a seed in each, cover with soil, mist until damp and then place a layer of plastic wrap over top.