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Example sentences for "foot apart"

  • Sow in spring in well-manured soil, either in drills or in hills 1 foot apart.

  • It will be well to plow the soil away from the rows so as to leave but a narrow strip, and along this the old plants should be cut out so as to leave the new plants about 1 foot apart.

  • The earlier planting may be a foot apart to admit of later settings between.

  • Sow the seeds in April, in a nursery-bed; making the drills a foot apart, and covering the seeds an inch deep.

  • The variety should be cultivated in rows eighteen inches apart, and the plants should stand one foot apart in the rows.

  • In growing these, all that is necessary is to sow the seed of almost any variety of the common green cabbages in drills a foot apart, and half an inch deep.

  • A space of eight inches between the plants in the rows will suffice, but the rows should be at least a foot apart.

  • Sow in April, and thin the plants to a foot apart in the rows.

  • In the open, it is best to sow in lines one foot apart, and thin out first to three inches, and finally to six inches, the strongest of the seedlings being put out one foot apart.

  • As in the case of Beet and Parsnip, holes should be bored to the requisite depth and about one foot apart in the rows.

  • If you have a wall at the back of your garden that is only partly covered, you should put nails a foot apart on either side and stretch string or wire across.

  • Snapdragons and Marigolds should be a foot apart, but Lettuces can do with nine inches, and Violas with rather less.

  • You can prick them out to where they are to stand, or you can sow in their permanent quarters and thin to nine inches or a foot apart.

  • Hold both curved 5 hands, palms up, near the sides, a foot apart; then shake them up and down.

  • Hold out the two G hands nearly back up, a foot apart; swing them together till the G tips are about two inches apart.

  • Hold forefingers of both G hands a foot apart, pointing up, left farthest off; move together till touching at the tips.

  • In using Candytuft for edging, set the plants about a foot apart.

  • To secure the best results with this plant, when grown as a hedge or screen, set it in rows about a foot apart, each way, and use some of the dwarf sorts for the front row.

  • If the trellis is employed the beans can be planted in practically continuous rows, so that they stand about a foot apart.

  • The upland cress, sometimes called peppergrass, is easily grown from seed sown in drills a foot apart.

  • Lettuce Spring-sown lettuce will go to large sizes, remaining sweet and tender without irrigation if spaced 1 foot apart in a single row with 2 feet of elbow room on each side.

  • I had heard of someone growing unirrigated carrots on sandy soil in southern Oregon by sowing early and spacing the roots 1 foot apart in rows 4 feet apart.

  • When they reach the size of large lemons, thin to 1 foot apart.

  • A few weeks later, when the carrots are about 3/4 to 1 inch in diameter, make a final thinning to 1 foot apart.

  • Then sow, not too deeply, in rows about a foot apart in the bed, covering very lightly, according to size.

  • In a border planted in this way, individual plants are far finer than those which, when grown, are six inches or a foot apart.

  • The following spring they should be reset, a foot apart, where they can grow until transplanted to their final resting place.

  • Good plants are six dollars a hundred, and should be planted a foot apart.

  • The annuals may be planted 1 foot apart; the perennials 3 feet.

  • Sow in spring in well manured soil, either in drills or in hills 1 foot apart.

  • If immediate effects are not desired, the plants should be thinned out or transplanted to stand half a foot apart.

  • The plants may be grown in rows 1 foot apart and 6 inches apart in the row, or they may be grown in beds 4 to 8 feet wide, with walks between.

  • The plants may be grown in rows 1 foot apart and 6 inches apart in the rows.

  • The rows should have been one foot apart, and the plants about six inches apart in the rows, or less.

  • If the wall is made of rough stones it will require one more course of sticks, leaving them only a foot apart.

  • The next spring, set them in rows ten inches or a foot apart, placing the different sizes by themselves, that large ones need not overshadow small ones and prevent their growth.

  • Put posts firmly in the ground eight feet apart, allowing them to be seven feet above ground after they are set; put slats of wood or wire across these, a foot apart, commencing a foot above the ground.

  • Plants should have a portion of the tap-root cut off, and be planted a foot apart in the row.

  • Both bluebirds were on a low tree, about a foot apart, uttering constantly the mournful notes I had heard.

  • The dances I saw were strictly pas-de-deux, and they always began by a flash of wings and two birds alighting on the grass, about a foot apart.

  • When this strange new figure was introduced, number one proved equal to the emergency, hopping backward, and turning so dexterously that when his partner alighted they were facing, and about a foot apart, as before.


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