The object of trenching is to loosen the soil and permit the roots to spread, otherwise the tree spindles instead of becoming broad and umbrageous.
In trenching with the spade, a narrow strip of land is excavated across one end of the piece to be trenched, eighteen or twenty inches wide, and as deep as the spade can take it out at two diggings.
But where this is inconvenient, trenching must be carried out in March or early April.
Trenching is of paramount importance, for the roots of the Sweet Pea require a considerable depth of good soil in which to ramify for the support of robust healthy plants capable of producing handsome flowers over a long season.
The modern culture of this delightful flower includes deep trenching and the liberal use of manure.
In breaking up pasture with the spade, bastard trenching will as a rule prove advantageous.
A good open position is imperative, and where the soil is sufficiently deep, trenching is desirable.
The usual time for trenching is October or November, leaving the surface rough for disintegration during winter.
In this case bastard trenching will be sufficient; but when the second spit may be brought up with safety, it should be done for the sake of a fresh soil and a deep friable bed.
If labour is at command a third trenching may be done with advantage, and the surface may be left ridged up until the time arrives to level it for seeding.
Some objection was also made to the boundaries, as being too large, and as trenching upon those of Indiana and Ohio.
The circulation of such a speech will effect the object of the abolitionists without trenching upon their funds.
The two commenced wearily to cut out with their trenching tools a couple of niches in the sides of the crater which would give them protection from the flank and rear bullets.
But the Stonewalls had made full use of their trenching tools and any scattered sandbags they could pick up, and had made very good cover for themselves.
Others won across and went further, and drove the enemy from his fort, and then back from line to line and from one hasty trenching to another, till the Battle of the Somme ended in the falling back of the enemy army.
A will merely subject to laws can be bound to them by interest; not so a will itself legislating supremely, for that would imply another law to keep the interest of self-love from trenching upon the validity of the universal law.
The deep trenching just described, in which the top soil was kept upon the top, and the subsoil underneath, is excellent where the subsoil is unfit for plant food, but there is a problem which it does not solve.
The best basis for gardening, however, is a more drastic, deeper trenching than this.
If possible this trenching should be done the spring previous to the planting of the trees, and the ground cropped with Potatoes or Cabbages to keep down weeds during summer.
This is their net return and they can use it without trenching on their property.
It may be able to make even greater progress than a smaller corporation could make, for it may be able to hire ingenious men to devise new appliances, and it may be able to test them without greatly trenching on its income by such experiments.
It is of course possible, and perhaps probable, that it was for the interests of both parties to keep out of view a servant of Portugal trenching upon what was believed to be Spanish territories.
In 1519 Pineda had made the circuit of the northern shores of the Gulf of Mexico, and at the river Panuco he had been challenged by Cortes as trenching on his government.
As it was close to the post, and I had found it, I simply made a bargain with Wa-sa-Kejic to do the trenching for a pound of tea.
This is the first precaution, so that if any beaver during the trenching process tries to escape down the creek he must pass over the trap and get caught.
The wheel type of trenching machine is similar in principle to the chain excavator.
We have concluded, therefore, that such information as is obtainable on these heads will prove of public interest, and we shall ask Professor Bessey's pardon for trenching somewhat on his domain.
The ground should be well prepared, by trenching or plowing at least eighteen to twenty inches deep, and be properly enriched as for any garden crop.
At times we dropped thetrenching tools--to lift our rifles and beat back the oncoming enemy.
We dug a line of holes, scratching fiercely with our trenching tools, all the while subjected to a withering shrapnel fire.
Hastily-made graves, turned out with small trenching tools, how I wish you were much deeper!
This operation of trenching consists in breaking up the earth two spades deep.
In small garden areas, this deep preparation will ordinarily be done by trenching with a spade.
Nor has it even been attempted, in this little work, though trenching more closely on its subject, to trace the career and sketch the lives of the men who fill the foremost places in the ranks of Ireland's political martyrs.
We have written of Mr. Mitchel only in reference to his political career; but we can, without trenching in any degree on the domain of private life, supply some additional and authentic details which will be of interest to Irish readers.
He resented them--essayed to put them from him as trenching on blasphemy.
When this trenching is done, lay two or three inches of thoroughly rotted manure over the whole surface, and dig the ground over again eight or ten inches deep, mixing this top-dressing, and incorporating it well with the earth.
While a deep and loose soil produces earlier and better crops than a heavy and shallow one, indiscriminate deepening of the soil by trenching or other means is not always desirable, even where the cost does not come into consideration.
No manure is given at planting; no trenching or any preparation of the ground, beyond digging the shallow trench, takes place.
When the subsoil is very light and poor and deficient in humus, the placing of the better surface soil below and the infertile lower strata above, trenching would be a positive detriment.
His book: "Trenching in Gallipoli" is published by the Century Company, Copyright 1916, with whose permission the following stories are taken.
When the plants are two years old they will be of a proper size for planting out, and the best way to do this is by trenching or ploughing as deeply as the soil will allow.
In trenching stock, put the roots down deeply, and cover well half-way up the stems.
English gardeners advise trenching even to the depth of three feet, where the ground permits it.
When the trenching had reached to the level of the top of the invert, two rows of stakes were driven in the bottom, stakes being 6 ft.
The trenching was done by wheel scrapers to the amount of waste.
To omit nothing of the culture of this useful ozier, Pliny would have the place to be prepared by trenching it a foot and half deep, and in that, to fix the sets, or cuttings of the same length at six foot interval.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trenching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
