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Example sentences for "leaf mould"

  • It forms a choice specimen for pot culture in cold frames or amongst select rock plants; it should be grown in mostly vegetable mould, as peat or leaf mould, and have a moist position.

  • An annual top dressing of leaf mould is very beneficial.

  • Take some forty-eight size pots, and mix a quantity of leaf mould with a sixth proportion of road sand, not sifted fine.

  • Pot Cape and other bulbs in a compost of loam, leaf mould, with a good sprinkling of sand, as soon as they begin to make growth in foliage.

  • Sow seeds; the compost to be equal parts of peat or leaf mould, loam, and rotten dung, with a small portion of sand.

  • To be shifted into larger pots in a compost of equal quantities of decayed turf, leaf mould, good sandy peat, old cowdung, and silver sand, with plenty of drainage and moss on the crocks.

  • Leaf mould is highly prized by gardeners, indeed gardeners will often make a big heap of leaves in autumn and let them "rot down" and change into mould.

  • Supplement your collection by purchasing from a gardener's shop some mixed potting soil and also the separate ingredients used to form such a mixture--silver sand, leaf mould, peat.

  • Most garden soils will suit this plant, but it affords the handsomest, and richest colored flowers in fresh loam mixed with peat or leaf mould, without dung.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    already suggested; applied only; artificial selection; being confined; belligerent rights; bold relief; both places; foreign capital; free constitution; leaf clover; leaf mold; leaf mould; long afterwards; longer love; other castes; outdoor relief; plain white; said also; then must; thundering voice; under color; until then; when heated; wood charcoal