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Example sentences for "mellow soil"

  • An excellent table-carrot, but flourishes well only in deep, mellow soil.

  • The seeds may be sown in drills, in October or April, in the manner of sowing the seeds of the common carrot: preference to be given to rich, mellow soil.

  • It thrives best in a light, mellow soil, made rich by the application of old, decomposed manure; but the roots will flourish well if planted in any corner of the garden less suited for other descriptions of vegetables.

  • In a dry time, the sod may be covered from a half inch to an inch with fine, mellow soil as a mulch.

  • The tree is then lowered to the proper depth, and made plumb by the guy-ropes, and good, mellow soil is thrown in and packed well into all the cavities under the roots.

  • Freesias may be potted six or more in a pot of mellow soil, and then started into growth at once.

  • And yet another method is, to cut up the vines into pieces of two or three inches in length, and broad cast them on mellow soil, and harrow them in as wheat--Others bury the short pieces in drills.

  • But a rich, mellow soil is as good for beans as anything else, though not so indispensable.

  • When by seeds, they should be planted in mellow soil, and where the sun will not shine on them between eight and five o'clock in hot weather.

  • These truths are as follows: The roots of farm plants need for their best growth and development: A firm, mellow soil.

  • We have found the conditions which are necessary for the growth and development of plant roots, namely: A firm, mellow soil.

  • Therefore, for rapid growth the root needs a mellow soil.

  • The seed should be sown in a deep, rich, mellow soil, which is all the better for being prepared in autumn.

  • The blackberry likes a rich, moist, mellow soil, and, finding it, some varieties will give you canes sixteen feet high.

  • A clean, mellow soil in good condition, frequent pinchings back of the canes in summer, or a rigorous use of the pruning-shears in spring, are all that is required to secure an abundant crop from year to year.

  • In the spring the seed should be sown early, in mellow soil.

  • Sweetness and succulence result from high culture in rich, mellow soil.

  • The cold frame is merely a piece of rich, mellow soil, enclosed by boards and covered with glass.

  • In fact, in the rich, mellow soil in which Asters delight, this variety is likely to have its large flowers on stems so long and slender that the plants will need stakes.

  • This surface layer of loose, mellow soil is often spoken of as the earth-mulch.

  • This is usually propagated by division of the fleshy roots, small pieces of which will grow if separated from the old, established roots and planted in rich, mellow soil.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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