Sentences with phrase «of grass clippings»

I didn't have any bugs stop by during my painting session, but my husband had just mowed the day before and we still had lots of grass clippings floating around.

After a day or two, scatter a thin covering of grass clippings on the concrete.

For example, the pile should not consist solely of grass clippings, which tend to pack together and prevent air circulation.

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.

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Daphne Gould of Boston reports excellent results with a mixture of two parts compost, one part perlite, and one part garden soil, mulched with grass clippings.

The simplest method of fighting transpiration water loss is to increase the humidity around the plants by wetting thick layers of mulch such as grass clippings.

Reduce this water loss by boosting the humidity around the plants with a thick layer of mulch such as dried grass clippings (placed over top of the plastic mulch, if using it).

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.

He got his line a bit wrong into Turn 1 and just clipped the wet grass, sending him spinning into the barriers on the outside of Turn 2.

«Leave it to liberals to ignore injustices and atrocities of a totalitarian nation on human beings and put more importance on a nations diet which includes grass clippings and canines.

Laforsch and his colleagues looked at several different kinds of biowaste that's composted and spread on farmland in Germany, including household compost and grass clippings, supermarket waste and grain silage leftover from biogas production.

The scenario is better for yard waste — grass clippings, leaves and branches — with more than half diverted to compost facilities instead of landfills.

Working in partnership with the Toronto Zoo, the team collected saliva samples from moose and reindeer, which they then smeared onto clipped samples of red fescue grass carrying the toxic fungus, simulating the effect of grazing.

Well, if you did save the clippings and ate them, you would endure hours of cramps, abdominal discomfort, perhaps diarrhea, then pass the blades of grass out whole, completely undigested.

I like to stash my Full Circle dust pan and brush from Grove near the front door for quick cleanup of dirt and grass clippings.

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And in Los Angeles, the ground service equipment for eight airlines will now be fueled with renewable diesel — made from grass clippings and other organic waste — because of the FAA's Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative.

I had started with fires in Redhill about a month after Josh died: first a small trash can in the backyard, then a pile of dried grass clippings in the woods behind my house; a stack of deadfall at a construction site, then three tires at the town dump; a few other minor lights around Redhill, until I set an old wooden shed ablaze on city park property.

A sea of white Vermont marble spreads across the closely clipped grass, spilling down to the ocean below.

If you are a dedicated gardener and dog trainer, you can teach Rambo to pull a cart loaded with tools, grass clippings, even flats of plants or new trees or shrubs.

As the owner of a small dog with nails that grow like grass, I can certainly echo the importance of frequent nail clipping.

Cat grass can be eaten directly out of the pot or clipped and added to food.

There's the brisk clip - clap of walking on stone, and the soft sound of rushes as you walk through grass.

Nearby, Kate Lepper's Emergency Canisters and Leaf Preservers (both 2011), made up of dried leaves and grass clippings, encourage the audience to reconsider the relationship between humans and their environment.

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Farmer's recent tour de force Leaves of Grass (2012), a major installation which assembled a monumental (124 - foot - long) historical menagerie of clippings from vintage Life magazines, earned significant acclaim at dOCUMENTA (13).

Rochelle Goldberg's installation No Where, Now Here includes live chia grass growing out of the carpet, creating an actual ecosystem within a sculptural one, and Win McCarthy's sculptures take on a decidedly raw feel, collaging newspaper clippings and self - portraits with rough - and - ready materials, including metal and rocks.

She infused a completely new set of materials: those she concocted and heavily documented in the laboratory of her studio — such as tinted polyester resin and polyurethane expanding foam — creating a post-human form of lamps that used casts made directly from her lips, to every day resources — pantyhose, newspaper clippings, photographs, with straw and resin, grass and foam — resulting in distinctly radical hybrids of the organic and inorganic.

There is an assortment of items that can be used for homemade compost, including kitchen scraps, fruit peels, egg shells, newspapers, coffee grinds, tea leaves, grass clippings (sans weeds), and so much more.

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Green waste consists of two components: yard waste, such as leaves and grass clippings, and food waste.

According to the court's recitation of the facts, an employee of the auto parts store had recently mowed the lawn in front of the store and failed to clean up the grass clippings.

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For instance, make sure your gutters, downspouts and yard drains are all clean and clear of debris such as leaves, grass clippings and more.

The centerpiece is packed full of flowers and clippings from the garden... sunflowers, hydrangeas, nandina, zinnias, angelonias, and purple fountain grass plumes!

You can convert your non-organic lawn quickly and simply by taking your foot off the pedal and letting nature have more free rein; you can still mow but not as frequently, and leave the clippings to decompose, thereby feeding the ground with natural nitrogen; a spray of liquid seaweed will help make your grass grow richly green.

Use the grass clippings and prunings from your other March garden activities to boost the contents of your compost bins.