Sentences with phrase «uncultivated soil»

The Saponin actually tastes bad to insects so no pesticides are needed, and the trees naturally love poor uncultivated soil.

Even so, some interesting new fighters have been growing in uncultivated soil.

Not exact matches

But in order to know how the soil is being changed, researchers wanted to compare samples with natural, uncultivated areas alongside processed areas.

By comparing soil taken from 31 uncultivated prairie sites, such as cemeteries and national parks, with soil from agricultural land, Fierer's team identified microbes that probably inhabited the untouched prairies but were later lost.

Furthermore, when previously uncultivated land, including tropical forests, is brought into cultivation, large amounts of carbon are released from the soil, worsening the carbon dioxide balance.