Sentences with phrase «top of a soil»

All customers have to do is lay the sheet on top of a soil bed like a blanket, and water it.

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.

My habaneros and some Sicilian peppers have sprouted unbelievably but I have found a mold growing around the top of the soil.

The water flowing on top of the soil is called runoff.

«What most interested me was how these earthworms would change the forest floor, especially the litter layer on top of the soil — dead leaves and twigs and other materials,» says Qiu.

I think one of the ways that we have changed in a hundred and how many years since then is we have a better appreciation today for these amazing creatures [and] a self - interested one, not just in terms of natural services; but earthworms are a terrific way, as any composter can tell you, and here it is August and lot of us are composting to help digest peels and tops and things like that from out of your vegetable garden and put [it back out], add some more earth to the top of the soil.

Species 34 lives on living figs visited by a certain species of fig wasp, unlike most Caenorhabditis which prefer rotting fruit in compost or on top of soil.

If you are a gardening buff, dandelion helps bring nutrients from the deep dirt to the top of the soil.

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

Tell students to measure the plants from the top of the soil to the top of the plant.

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.

Place some pebbles on top of soil on houseplants to keep cats from using the dirt for a litterbox.

If your cat uses houseplants for litter boxes, cover the top of the soil with sharp rocks or small pine cones.

Hubberten speculates that a thick layer of ice on top of the soil at the Yamal crater site trapped methane released by thawing permafrost.

Beginning at one end of the row, use your fingers to make a small hole in the top of the soil, just big enough for a single potato chip to fit standing on end.

Fill a four - inch pot with moist potting soil, sprinkle a good amount of seed over the top of the soil and then spread a thin layer of potting soil over top.

Orgarnic materials like these laid on top of the soil helps water absorption and prevents weed growth.

Not exact matches

In mining, large areas of land are cleared of trees and brush, then the top soil and clay are removed to expose the oil sand.

This is because floods and forest fires are a natural method of mother earth to replenish her top soil to produce food.

In 1971 Rod scouted out a small hill in the Alexander valley, with a perched terrace of red loamy soil on the very top.

The sugar cane is «green cut» or hand - harvested, and the tops of the sugar cane are left in the field to enrich the soil and control weeds.

On top of all that, pulse crops are sustainable, with low water and carbon footprints, and they act as natural fertilizers, enriching whatever soil they grow in.

It was famous for, and still is, rich farmlands that boast as much as twenty - four feet of top soil in many areas.

On top of that I placed premium top soil, also from Lowes.

What makes the terroir in Chablis so special is the kimmeridge limestone (a mineral rich clay with high levels of marine fossils, which increase the lime content — a winemakers dream), and, at Château de Béru, the kimmeridge is close to the top soil, so these minerally, flinty notes really shine through.

The loss of fertile top soil by erosion results in a lower yield capacity on the onehand and in a undesired transfer of nutrients, pesticides and sediments in surface water on the other.

Place 2 - 3 seeds in plugs or a seed tray and top with a tiny amount of compost or seedling soil.

Their goal output isn't high with an average of just under 1.2 goals per home game this season and the Hammers have been leading at half time just once this season on home soil in the top flight, so a half time draw could tempt punters here.

Stoke are just lacking the attacking threat to really make a go of this against a top - six side who are by and large, pretty good on home soil.

At home this season in the top flight they have gone W2 D1 L3 and have lost just one of their last four on home soil, which was a 1 - 0 defeat against Chelsea.

The Clarets have had a tremendous season on home soil in the top flight having gone W10 D2 L4 and they have lost just one of their last eight there and that was recently against the high - flying Tottenham.

70 % of their points this season have been earned on home soil and they have by far, the worst defensive record in the entire top flight.

Southampton are unbeaten in their last six games in the top flight against Newcastle with a W4 D2 record and have won their last four on home soil against them and they have been convincing wins too, the Saints having scored at least two goals in each of those four wins and they took a clean sheet in three of them as well.

Over their first 4 full seasons in the top flight, Stoke earns a massive 68.3 % of their points on home soil.

-- No team in the top flight has conjured up fewer goals on home soil than Rangers, who have hit the back of the net just six times at Loftus Road.

Fourteen of the 21 league goals that they have scored on home soil this season have come in the second half of matches and Romelu Lukaku is their top scorer at Old Trafford with five goals there.

They need the three points on home soil to pull level with the Citizens, as Pep Guardiola's men go into the weekend top of the league.

Leicester have gone W5 D1 in their last six on home soil in the top flight and with their last three there being 1 - 0 victories, a Leicester 1 - 0 correct score is at a price of 7/1 However, West Ham will bring a more threatening attack than some of the sides Leicester have faced lately like Sunderland, Newcastle, Watford and Palace.

So that's not a great record there but they have come through some good ties on home soil in the Cup so far, having beaten Liverpool 2 - 0 and then Championship side Leeds 3 - 1 and on top of that they opened with a good win at Sheffield United as well in the tournament.

As absurd as it may sound, Blackpool will find securing that elusive win which would complete a memorable set of top - flight wins over Liverpool more difficult back at home, at a ground which has come in for criticism this season because of their lack of under - soil heating, which is why this fixture is the only Premier League game being played this week as the original meeting was pencilled in for December.

Overall this season on home soil they have produced a W3 D1 L5 record, returning the nine goals in that sequence and failing to score in 44 % of their home games in the top flight.

Once the diaper is soiled you remove the insert and either dispose of it in the trash or rip open the top and pour the contents into the toilet.The G Diaper has a wand to use to swish the insert around to help it go down into the toilet.

Standing in front of a sign that says «Lead Present» because lead pellets are still in the top nine inches of the soil, club member James Monk used a hand - held monitor to check the shotgun shells of the shooters as they entered the trap range.

Using defoamers and stain / soil repellents, the shampoo will force debris and liquids to the top of the carpet where you can easily remove them with a little bit of water.

You can have a nice little basket with some fresh cloth wipes next or on top of your toilet and keep a wet bag to place the soiled ones in.

In which case, you can leave a nylon diaper tote on the top of the dryer to serve as a short - term DRY PAIL for other soiled diapers while you are doing the family's laundry.

The amphitheater was built on top of toxic waste beds, and the lawn was covered in an impermeable fabric and up to 10 feet of soil to ensure safety.

Remote observations of hydrogen atoms by NASA's Odyssey spacecraft in 2002 hinted that ice might be locked in the top metre of soil at lower latitudes.

Environmentally Friendly: All of these top products are environmentally friendly options because they continue to provide the soil with the things it needs to stay healthy!

Monitoring and assessment have so far focused mainly on the symptoms of land degradation and desertification, such as loss of top soil and decreased food production.