I, however, hoed diligently on Saturday: what weeds I could n't remove I buried, so that everything would look all right.
It is not simply beets and potatoes and corn and string-beans that one raises in his well-hoed garden: it is the average of human life.
But, jubilate, I have got my garden all hoed the first time!
It was pried up with a crowbar, and hoed out on to a wheelbarrow.
Men at the entrances hoed the stuff out as we threw back.
You stand beside the little trench and walk backward, and as you walk you hoe the loose earth back over the seeds; the same earth that was hoed up you pull back again.
Then he hoed a trench, a few inches deep, the whole length of the cord, and scattered fertiliser in it.
When we hoed or picked cotton for him, he paid us as soon as we were through, and he paid us in cash, never by check.
She had hoed to the far end of the rows and had not returned with the others on that last round after sundown.
How de LORD hab not forgotten How well I hoed de cotton, How well I hoed de cotton On de ole Virginny shore; Dar I'll neber hoe de cotton, Oh!
Don't ask it of a Provence girl who has milked the cows andhoed the vines, and then suddenly has half Europe at her feet, and a King into the bargain!
It's not your refinement, nor your good manners, nor your white hands that never milked a cow, or swept a stable, or hoed the weeds out from between the vines in summer.
The plant is biennial, and is usually sown in May, and the crop kept hoed during that season.
It should be drilled at eighteen inches distance, and kept constantly hoed all summer, have a large coat of manure in winter, and be dug into the ground between the drills.
Within a fortnight the garden rows were hoed free from grass, the hops were gathered from the fence, and the weeds on the lawn vanished beneath small black fingers.
Among market gardeners it is a common expression that "cabbage should be hoed every day.
I have never been able to find out when the burdocks and mustard were planted on the dump; and I am sure that they were never hoed or watered.
Lima beans should be hoed frequently, and started on the poles if they are contrary.
In the spring, the coarser parts of the mulch may be removed, and the finer parts spaded or hoed into the ground.
I cultivate my orchard to potatoes, pumpkins, squashes, melons, or any low hoed crop.
I cultivate my orchard with a disc harrow followed by a common harrow, until they begin to bear; plant corn, potatoes or other hoed crop in a young orchard.
I cultivate my orchard to garden-truck and hoed crops, using plow in spring, then the disc or Acme harrow.
I cultivate my orchard to hoed crops, using a diamond plow.
I cultivate my orchard to potatoes or any hoed crop, when it is first planted; keep this up as long as the roots and branches will admit.
I plant any hoed crop among the trees while young, and cease when the trees begin to bear.
I cultivate in potatoes, corn, or any hoed crop, using a hoe and cultivator.
I cultivate my orchard five to eight years, with a hoed crop, or just keep the ground clean, and sow oats and sometimes red clover in a bearing orchard.
Humphrey was busy making a little wheelbarrow for Edith, that she might barrow away the weeds as he hoed them up; and at last this great performance was completed, much to the admiration of all, and much to his own satisfaction.
Well, I shall have plenty to do when you are away--the potatoes must be hoed up, and I shall see what I can make of Master Pablo.
Then he hoed some more, and said, "Why, what pleasant work this is!
One day last week he hoed up two whole rows of beets; he thought they were weeds.
Elliott hoed briskly, if a bit awkwardly, and painstakingly removed every weed.
It couldn't matter to the Belgians or the Germans or Hoover or anybody else whether she hoed or didn't hoe.
It is then distributed very thickly over the field, and is roughly hoed with the iron molote, the seed been thrown upon the manure broadcast, previous to the hoeing.
Can you tell me why pink beans which were planted early in Merced county, irrigated four times, hoed four times and cultivated, have no beans on them?
Beans had better be hoed with the dew on them than nothoed at all.
In choice of hoed crops be governed by what you can use to advantage, either for house or the feeding of animals, or what you can grow that is salable with least loss of moisture in the soil.
Select a crop which will require summer cultivation, like corn, potatoes, squashes, and beans, and never a hay or grain crop which takes up moisture without working the soil for the greater moisture conversation which hoed crops require.
You bery sure I was, an' I poke some holes in de varmints 'fore dey hoed away.
Quashy; "what would peepil judge ob me, now, if dey hoed by looks?
Well, I shall have plenty to do when you are away--the, potatoes must be hoed up, and I shall see what I can make of Master Pablo.
By the time it was light enough to see they had to be in the fields where they hoed the cotton and the corn as well as the other crops.
For a while Mrs. Rush worked in the fields where she plowed and hoed the crops along with the other slaves.
To hoed crops apply these articles twice, and always by sowing, and not by putting it around or upon the hills; the effect is much greater sowed, besides the labor that is saved.
Does best on land which washoed the previous year.
Try two acres, one in the usual way, and the other by harrowing, as we recommend, when it first comes up, and you will never after neglect harrowing all your hoed crops.
They come up so soon that they protect the parsnips and carrots from too hot a sun while tender, and also serve to mark the rows, so that they may be hoed early, without danger of destroying the young plants.
Sown on the field of hoed or hill crops, its effects are much greater than when only put on the hill.
She hoed and dug and drove hard bargains with the grocers to whom she sold her meagre products.
He hoed and toiled and smiled and listened to the rustling of the corn, for he had made up his mind.
It is only hoed in the row, in order to get out the weeds that are close to the plants, the remaining space being left for the harrow and cultivator, which are run so frequently as to keep down the weeds.
Between the middle of August and the same time in September, a plot of ground is hoed and embanked into small squares; in these the seed is sown, and covered by hand three times at intervals of ten days.
This circle would, a little later, be hoedinto one big hill of corn.
In order that these roots may reach the soil, and take hold, the dirt must be hoed up to them.
What I mean was that after your corn begins to grow, the ground is hoed around the corn stalks in a sort of little hill.
Planting something, I guess," replied Hal after he had looked at his growing corn, and hoed around a few hills.
Some results were:-- Percentage of moisture in Date Hoed soil Mulched soil 1910 Sept.
On the cold day there was very little difference between the plots, but on the hot day the hoed plots were cooler than the others.
Some of the results were as follows:-- Air Date temperature Soil temperature Hoed plot Mulched plot 1910 Sept.
A hoed soil is cooler and moister, and therefore better suited for the growth of plant roots than an unhoed soil.
The mulched soil is, however, cooler even than the hoed soil, and our expectation that mulching would keep the soil cool has turned out to be correct.
Sow two rows of maize two yards apart; keep one well hoed for a yard on each side and leave the other alone to struggle with the weeds that will grow.
But later on, when the hot weather begins, the hoed soil loses much less moisture than the untouched plot; the latter lost 6.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
