Sentences with phrase «turning over the soil»

Pick a spot, turn over the soil, and cultivate it.

Illinois soil is among the most fertile in the world, but farmers started turning over the soil earlier in the spring which has led to it washing into the streams and down into the river.

Community members started to turn over soil to prepare the ground for planting, while others erected signs reading «Our Power Our Future Our Choice» «Planting a Clean Future» and «Coal Plant in Transition.»

If the home looks untidy from the outside, a negative impression has already been set, and it only takes mowing the lawn or raking leaves, turning over soil beds and sprinkling some fresh mulch to instantly make a better impression.

Not exact matches

It's the image of a farmer plowing a field over and over, turning over new soil, planting new seeds.

But you must break up the hard clods that have formed in your soul over the week, turn under the weeds, and prepare the good soil to receive the good seed.

While many of these individuals are currently in immediate physical threat, a greater pain for them is seeing the seeds of violence being sown in the soil that they have tireless turned over for the sake of reconciliation.

The American people will be turning out in record numbers to retain in office the man who has presided over 30 straight months of private sector job growth, the saving of the American auto industry and the elimination of the head of the organization that launched the most deadly attack on our soil.

It is thought the reduced runoff is achieved because Festulolium's intense initial root growth and subsequent rapid turn - over, especially at depth, allows more water to be retained within the soil.

Authorities dealt with the problem after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster by turning over a deep layer of soil to bury the radioactive dust.

The hemp plant can transform marginal land and soil, and over many years of cultivation, turn it into excellent growing spaces.

Because they are not diggers, they are rarely the culprits if the soil or sod has been turned over.

However, Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota said that «a lot of soil has been turned over» and that despite a difficult year for fundraising, there was a «growing confidence» that the project would be completed in time for the London Olympics.

Less well known is the immense potential of soils to act as vast carbon sinks, with the ability to «naturally turn over about 10 times more greenhouse gas on a global scale than the burning of fossil fuels.»

But if vegetation wilts, and soils turn to dust over large areas of already parched land, then the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere will increase even more.

When the questioners lack a fundamental understanding of, or appreciation for, the subject of study they will necessarily take many blind turns and tread over a great deal of already turned soil.

The idea is that, over time, the mulch will break down anyway, but with added nutrients from human urine it will not just provide organic matter to the soil, but a dose of valuable nutrients with no need for turning the compost heap or spreading out the end result.

Normal cropping, even organic cropping, turns the soil over and lays it bare in the process of planting the grain.

Prepares exam and treatment rooms with necessary instruments and supplies; assists in room turn - over including appropriate cleaning and disinfection of soiled surfaces and patient care equipment.

Spade by spade, I turned the turf over so the dead grass would decompose into the soil.