Sentences with phrase «roots out of the soil»

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We're still pulling weeds, creeper roots, and rocks out of the soil two years later.

Biblical ideas of atonement root back in this basic soil and stem out from it; and while the development later carried them to branches far distant from the roots, there is no understanding the topmost twig — for example, «as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive» --(I Corinthians 15:22.)

The giant squash leaves spread out and shade the roots of the other plants, retaining moisture in the soil, and the spiny stems help prevent pests from climbing onto the other plants.

In the case of rice, SRI means planting out fewer, and younger, seedlings, in drier soil, and with regular weeding to aerate the roots.

Out in the world, dandelion roots do the dirty work of cleaning up, like removing lead from soil.

The study sites were spread out across 5,000 square miles of pinyon - juniper woodlands in Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, to capture the wide range of elevation and soil gradients these trees take root in.

Thrusting out a side branch to seek out water turns out to be a local matter on a root, Dinneny and colleagues found using micro-CT scans of roots in soil.

This chain of water molecules extends all the way from the leaves down to the roots and even extends out from the roots into the soil.

Ninety percent of their roots are in the top few inches of soil, so the trees rely on the litter to keep the soil from drying out.

This was the year for a cohort of big, reckless, ruby - eyed bugs to break out of the soil for their first and only chance to mate after 17 years of sucking plant roots in the dark.

Exploiting habitats that are often or mostly out of water required new symbiotic relationships to contain and move water, including the fusion of some fungi and algae to create lichen in communities with bacteria that survive extreme desiccation on land while breaking down rock into soil, and the association of mycorrhizae fungi and the root tissue of new vascular plants — culminating in trees that pump water high into the air — to exchange mineral nutrients (e.g., phosphorus) and usable «fixed» nitrogen from the atmosphere for photosynthetic products.

Scientists have long known that plants impact the composition of the soil microbiome in the area surrounding their roots by sending out chemicals (metabolites).

Berkeley Lab received these competitive awards from ARPA - E's Rhizosphere Observations Optimizing Terrestrial Sequestration (ROOTS) program, which seeks to develop crops that take carbon out of the atmosphere and store it in soil — enabling a 50 percent increase in carbon deposition depth and accumulation while also reducing nitrous oxide emissions by 50 percent and increasing water productivity by 25 percent.

Although Tomboy is as tightly constructed as a short story and as seemingly straightforward as a documentary, the parable about a small fib that grows out of control is so rooted in the rich soil of sexual identity that it entangles us.

Grass root depth, overall grass coverage, soil type and even the visibility of the lines and ball bounce can be assimilated and measured (with most of the tests being simple enough to be carried out without laboratory - based equipment).

With its roots firmly planted in the soil of accountability, I find I am spending more time than ever filling out forms in order to fulfill expectations from all levels of administration.

As little kids, we would be anxious to see whether there was any progress in how our plants were growing, so we would make the mistake of pulling the plant out of the soil to see if the roots were growing.

Parsnip: Parsnips aren't usually one of the vegetables people name as their favorite, but growing this root vegetable around peppers can yield another food crop while helping to crowd out weeds and keep soil shaded.

The swollen larval bodies break out of the root and the mobile males travel through the soil while the females remain attached to the root tissues by their heads.

In Majuro, they live in a small cluster of homes along the coast, three pandanus trees planted out back because their roots run deep and supposedly hold down the soil.

Look to see if roots are coming out of the bottom of the pot, or try to poke your finger into the soil; if you can't because roots are in the way, let someone else struggle with these plants.