Sentences with phrase «sandy soil»

Specifically, the researchers found that deforestation dramatically alters microbial communities in sandy soils, but has minimal effects in muddy, clay - like soils, even after extensive tree removal.

Hot pepper plants LOVE sand as many varieties originate in areas with sandy soil.

Natural compression of the region's sandy soil over time has also contributed to land loss.

«Significant relationships were found and the accuracy of root detection was higher in wet clay soils than in dry sandy soils,» he said.

Even homes built on sandy soil instead of clay or rock will have lower premiums for the same reason.

Besides helping scientists better gauge how precipitation ultimately soaks into sandy soils, the research could help them better understand industrial processes, such as pharmaceutical manufacture, in which liquids are sprayed onto dry powdered materials — possibly improving quality control and consistency in the final products.

Meanwhile its twin, Spirit, became trapped in soft, sandy soil on the other side of the planet in May.

As with our essential Waitrose pork, all the sows are kept outdoors their entire lives and live in straw filled arcs and tents on free draining sandy soils.

Instead the tarry resin is either steamed or strip - mined from sandy soil.

This effect is much greater for sandy soils than for clay or silt, since coarse soils are more porous and therefore hold more water when wet.

My croft comprises 15 acres, but we also have rights to common grazings on the hill and on the machair, which is the fertile sandy soil by the Atlantic beach.

Baars, Ton (2002) Reconciling scientific approaches for organic farming research: Part II - Effects of manure types and white clover (Trifolium repens) cultivars on the productivity of grass - clover mixtures grown on a humid sandy soil.

Bluewater Farms cranberries are grown exclusively in Southeastern Massachusetts, where the unique climate and sandy soil bears a beautiful red berry - crisp, juicy, and well - suited for hundreds of recipes.

The site is an ancient river bed, where sandy soils and natural Artesian wells create a perfect growing environment.

Meru, with its weird, two - trunked doum palms and strange red outcroppings — decomposed lava boulders covered with red sandy soil — is excellent country for elephant - watching and, until recently, for rhinos as well.

Aside from a comparatively few trees worthy of the name that have been made to flourish in the settled communities, the thin, sandy soil sprouts mostly scrub oak and dwarf pine.

The shock wave hammers through sandy soil, soft rock, and landfill like the deepest notes on a big string bass.

Spirit has been struggling to escape from a patch of soft, sandy soil since April.

Infertile, acidic, sandy soils seem to make the land fit only for pasture.

Weighing 13.5 kilograms, the camera - equipped RHex is designed to be carried in a backpack until it is needed to provide reconnaissance in rough terrain areas such as rocky inclines, riverbanks, mud and loose sandy soil.

In Namibia of southwestern Africa, the sparse grasslands that develop on deep sandy soils under rainfall between 50 and 100 mm per annum are punctuated by thousands of quasi-circular bare spots, usually surrounded by a ring of taller grass.

It should be grown in somewhat sandy soil, in an area that gets mostly sun, and requires fairly regular watering.

Blueberries grow in rough terrain like sandy soils, dry environments and high altitudes.

Obviously sandy soil or loose gravely surfaces should still be navigated with caution, but with the On - Demand True All wheel drive, 2WD, and VersaTrac turf modes you have the right selection for any terrain.

The soft sandy soil is ideal for Agility work.

The river, after flowing slowly along sandy soils begins to move through a massive canyon and then descends through a ravine to the main gorge.

The existing Keystone pipeline has had 14 spills, and the new route will still cross a large aquifer and, according to some groups, will still cross the environmentally sensitive sandy soil around the Sandhills.

Soil texture influenced N2O emissions as sandy soils had lower emissions than fine - textured soils.

Depending on where you are in East Texas, you may have really sandy soil.

I garden in very sandy soil so I have to constantly haul in more compost and manure to keep enough nutrients in the soil to grow anything.

Craters left by bombs and asteroids get all the press, but what happens when a raindrop plows into sandy soil?

As for the soil, succulents grow best in well - draining sandy soil.

Loam and clay soils generally have greater soil moisture due to conservation tillage but, not for sandy soils, Lafond and Derksen (1997).

Vayalar, which comes under the Shertallai taluk is blessed with sandy soil, which is good for coconut cultivation.

Leeks are grown in sandy soil, so if you don't soak them, you'll be gnawing on grit, and that's not cool.

You stand on sandy soil.

Injury is more severe in sandy soils.

I examined the small plants and concluded that the sandy soil needed more organic material to hold the moisture.

One example are Fagioli di Sarconi (beans of Sarconi)-- they're grown in the sandy soil of the upper Val D'Agri in the Basilicata, whose climate is mild and cool.

Many greens grow in sandy soil.

The peanut plant, Arachis hypogaea, is planted in sandy soil and requires a warm, temperate climate and four to five months of frost - free days before it is ready for harvest.

You [also] have to have the right weather conditions — not too much rain, sandy soil and cooperative weather.

In order to grow great tasting Vidalias, and to give them their characteristic sweetness, they must be grown in a sandy soil mixture that is low in sulfur (sulfur in soil is what gives onions their hotness).

They need sun and sort of sandy soil.

Quinoa is able to survive high altitudes, thin and cold air, hot sun, salty or sandy soil, little rainfall, and sub-freezing temperatures.