Sentences with phrase «soil around»

Add in any extra soil around the plant that is needed to fill the jar.

Over time, rainwater has washed away a lot of the soil around the tree.

This water can cause the soil around the foundation to swell, putting pressure on just parts of the foundation where the water runs into the soil.

A natural humus producer, the earthworm likes the soil around dandelions.

These chemicals can be present in the air, water, and soil around us, and many victims may not realize their exposure until it is too late.

Much of the carbon captured is in the roots and in the soil around them, which persists (unless disturbed).

So what we need to discover here (and we're working on it) is biological polymers that are, of course, degradable, but perhaps provide nutritional benefit to people or to the soil around us.

For example, there is a current project underway to clean up lead paint from the soil around the buildings originally built to house the cable company workers and later used by military officers.

They range in age from old enough to have the thrown soil around the edge of the crater overgrown (which would suggest 100's to 1000's of years there) to comparatively new holes with fresh spoil around them.

Next up, Hendryx says he is planning to collect more samples from air, water, and soil around mountaintop sites.

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.

Studies have shown that lead levels in the soil around affected buildings can be as high as 9,300 ppm.»

Basically a terra cotta spike which you push into your potting soil, it will hold an upside down wine bottle filled with water upright, and then, as the soil around it dries, it slowly allows the water to seep out through the terra cotta spike and replenish the root zone.

Here's one specific example: The soil around a certain Midwest city is poor in calcium.

So, Edward Greisch — where did the plutonium in the soil around Rocky Flats near Boulder, CO?

Several species of mangroves contribute to a partially submerged forest, which begin as individual sprigs or trees and end up gathering enough soil around the entangled roots to build an island.

If your cat is digging into the soil around your plants, you can place gravel or wire mesh over the soil.

Supervise your puppy and keep her in a confined area to give her fewer opportunities to soil around the house.

One suggestion I have is to put a thick layer of gravel (perhaps one inch worth) on top of the soil around the plant and then move the pot to another location.

Did You Know: In the late 1800s, early settlers found that the soil around Portage was ideal for growing celery, earning it the nickname «Celery City.»

A liquid pesticide is applied to the soil around the entire perimeter of the home.

A malfunctioning system can contaminate groundwater and soil around your home.

It also means that the soil around the foundation is below the siding installed on the exterior of the home.

«Foundation cracks, bulges, and other irregularities can be extremely expensive to repair, and may even involve excavating the soil around the house to stabilize the walls,» says Welmoed Sisson, a home inspector with Inspections by Bob in central Maryland.

The thick, dark stickiness ran down her legs and stained the soil around her.

Tell students to lay the mulch on top of the soil around the base of the plant.

Good soil around the house means that when you trample dirt into the house, it'll be good bacteria coming in and my two decades of professional experience suggest that homes on plots with good soil are often places where the homeowners have fewer health concerns over the years.

To stimulate growth, 50 grams of a general purpose fertilizer can be applied to the soil around the pygeum tree a month after planting.

We can debate forever if a rose by another name would be as sweet, but one thing is for sure: roses love magnesium and adding a little to the soil around a rose bush helps increase growth and blooms.

You can reuse the bags for two years, after which the charcoal can be poured into the soil around plants to fertilize and help retain moisture.

They're working on engineering individual cells that react to changes in the environment and strengthen the soil around them, potentially making concrete - filled trenches unnecessary.

It grows in small patches of soil around sidewalk trees in Montpellier.

If a tumor is like a seed, the soil around it plays a significant role in its growth, a new study finds.

He and his son, I believe it was, put this big round stone, they kind of screwed it into the earth, so that they could track how the action of the earthworms raised up the soil around the stone because the movement is imperceptible to our eyes, but if you put that reference stone in there, you can see how everything else is moving in relationship to it, and that's how they came up with that number and so, you know, I got to stand on the worm stone just you know, six weeks ago.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday the Japanese science ministry began to report measurements of cesium - 137 in upland soil around the plant.

Previously, Bais and his research team isolated Pseudomonas chlororaphis EA105, a bacterium that lives in the soil around the roots of rice plants and found that this beneficial microbe can trigger a system - wide defense against the rice blast fungus.

The decomposers were barely detectable at the beginning of these experiments, and the soil around each corpse supported seemingly quite different sets of organisms, the team reports online today in Science.

Researchers hope that data from the probe's multiple instruments will allow them to gradually piece together the details of the soil around the Phoenix landing site.

Stamets» latest inspiration is to use mushrooms to clean up contaminated soil around Japan's Fukushima meltdown zone.

At the same time, if too much saltcollects in the soil around the plant, a pressure differential arises, and water is sucked from the roots by osmosis.

Those tests detected toxins in the soil around the homes, but at levels below DEC standards.

Keep in mind that children may also be at risk for lead poisoning if they play in the soil around an older home that may become contaminated with exterior lead - based paint.

Gardeners using drip irrigation should take care that the soil around peppers remains moist but not wet.

-- Leslee in Michigan Leslee: If it is in the ground, carefully dig it up, leaving a lot of soil around the roots.

Holding the seedling by its root ball (never by the stem or leaves if it can be avoided), place the seedling in the hole, fill the rest of the hole with garden soil, press the soil around the root ball and stem, and immediately water it.

Any pesticide that might be used will probably be added to the soil around it to be absorbed by the roots, or injected directly into the sap through the trunk of the tree.

As I read Isaiah's poem today I realize that the planter of the vineyard forgot to test the soil around the fertile hill.

Hemp has been used to detoxify the soil around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Honeywell is in the middle of a $ 451 million cleanup project that includes dredging toxic soil from the lake and cleaning up contaminated soils around the lake.

It authorized the release of roughly 110 metric tons of iron dust, 91 metric tons of the iron sulfate fertilizer commonly used as a lawn treatment and employed in other scientific experiments, and nearly 20 metric tons of the iron oxide found in soils around the world.