A capital compost is made of turfy loam, turfy peat, and leaf-soil in equal parts, with a little well-rotted manure and some sharp sand.
They grow best in turfy loam, with the addition of some decayed manure or peat and sand.
These Zephyranthes like a turfy loam with a little sand and well decayed manure or peat.
The Eucharis likes a compost of two or three parts of good loam to one of leaf-mould or turfy peat, and a little charcoal to keep the compost sweet.
In making up composts for pot plants, the fibrous portion should not be removed by sifting, except for small-sized pots, but the turfy portions should be broken up by hand and distributed in smaller or larger lumps throughout the mass.
Good turfy loam is also used for some, such as cypripediums and calanthes.
Before being used the turfy ingredients of composts should lie together in a heap only long enough for the roots of the herbage to die, not to decompose.
The soil should consist of about 3 parts turfy loam, 1 part leaf mould, 1 part coarse silver sand, with enough chemical or other manure added to render the whole moderately rich.
Over this rubbly matter, rough turfy soil, grass-side downwards, should be laid, and on this the good prepared soil in which the trees are to be planted.
It lay very high upon a turfy down, and looking north-eastward before I entered it, I was surprised to see a large estuary, or even creek, where I judged Wandsworth and Battersea must once have been.
I put Weena, still motionless, down upon a turfy bole, and very hastily, as my first lump of camphor waned, I began collecting sticks and leaves.
So with one arm round her waist and with the other carrying the water, they climbed the steep turfy slope.
In August a turfy place should be chosen near brambles, to form a small area, as a decoy, like that made for chaffinches.
The next two inches of the dung should have about a sixth part of light turfy loam reduced to mould, and sifted, mixed with it to give it body.
All the wild and turfy growth should be taken off the bog before the vines are set.
After theturfy growth is removed, the bog is smoothed, and covered 2 or 3 in.
Soil--three parts peat, one partturfy loam, and a little sand.
Hardy annuals, which are best raised from seed sown early in March on a slight hotbed, and grown in turfy loam, or loam and peat.
When grown in pots the mould should consist of two parts turfy loam, one part peat, and a little sharp sand.
It grows well in a compost of peat and light, turfy loam, but it is not suitable for pot culture.
A light, turfy loam is suitable for them, and they may be increased by placing cuttings of the young shoots in a sandy soil on a slight hotbed in spring.
It grows best in a compost of turfy loam and peat, but thrives in any light, rich soil.
Elegant greenhouse shrubs, delighting in a mixture of turfy loam, peat, and sand.
This plant grows best in pots of turfyloam and leaf-mould, to which has been added a little old mortar.
Plant in October in peat, or in a compost of sandy, turfy loam, with a good proportion of decayed leaves and charred refuse.
To produce fine specimens in pots they should be grown in a mixture of light turfy loam and leaf-mould.
They thrive best in a compost of turfy loam and peat, with a fair quantity of sand.
These Australian plants delight in rich turfypeat mixed with fibrous loam, leaf-mould, and coarse sand.
They grow best in small pots in a mixture of turfyloam and peat.
So they followed the broad, turfy track which commenced to ascend the flank of a down.
A mixture of turfy loam and sandy peat is best, but when not available, leaf mold or a rich mellow soil mixed with silver sand will do.
The soil best adapted for Begonias is turfy loam, leaf-mold, sand, and old well-rotted manure in equal parts.
He clambered up beside the coachman and under the brilliance of the starry heaven, the five steeds, with merry tinkling of bells, rattled the carriage along the turfy road.
He must also have seen those Scotch or Cumberland mountains to appreciate the descriptive force of this other line,-- "The turfy mountains where live the nibbling sheep.
The turfy mountains are the unswept stones that have held and utilized their ever-increasing capital of dirt.
The large swells heave up in a very molten-like way--real turfy billows, crested with white clover-blossoms.
It was this turfy and grassy character of these mountains--I am tempted to say their cushionary character--that no reading or picture viewing of mine had prepared me for.
At any rate it is open--and away tears Roy, trying perhaps to imagine himself on the turfy slopes about Minchkil Beacon as he scampers over the grass, scattering the few sooty disconsolate sheep right and left.
And Eustace himself was thinking, as they ascended the steep, turfy slopes, what a great piece of luck this was which had fallen in his way.
Put on the lights and leave the affair for five or six days; then lay down a bed of rich loamy soil of a somewhat light and turfy texture, about nine inches deep.
The plant may thus be hardened for a first planting on a warm border in a bed consisting of one-half rotten hot-bed manure and one-half of turfy loam.
Good turfy loam, a small quantity of manure from a spent Mushroom bed, and a little bone meal, will make an excellent compost for the pots or boxes.
The best soil for Melons is a firm, turfy loam, nine inches of which should be placed on top of the manure.
Sow in well-drained pots, filled with soil composed of two parts of turfy loam and one part of leaf-soil, with very little sand added.
There can be no better soil than turfy loam, without manure or sand.
When the fire is somewhat taken out of it, make up the bed with a mixture of about four parts of the fermented manure and one part of turfy loam, well incorporated.
Any turfy loam, or even peat, will answer; but a rank soil is certainly unfit.
Begin by sowing the seed singly in small pots in light turfy loam, or peat with which a fair proportion of sharp sand has been mixed.
Fill them with light turfy loam, mingled with almost an equal bulk of sharp sand.
If leaf-mould cannot be obtained, turfy peat will make a fairly good substitute.
Now, as to soil, a compost made of mellow turfy loam and leaf-mould in equal parts will be effective and sweet.
We therefore advise the preparation of a compost consisting of about three parts of turfy loam, to one part each of cow-manure and sweet leaf-mould, with a small addition of fine grit.
Have ready some new soil made chiefly of good turfy loam, to which old mortar rubbish or road scrapings, wood ashes, guano, and bone-dust have previously been added.
Should the soil be light, well-decayed manure may be dug in, especially if it has been well mixed some time beforehand with turfyor good loam.
The scenery around it is a table-land, covered with heather, and rocks, and turfy swamps.
On the bridle-path leading to the hamlet of Crowz-an-Wra the leverets raced up and down, whilst the hare sat on the turfy border by an old cross and watched them.
Anon[2] they all doffed their garments and threw up a turfy mound for their leader to sit on.
Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatch'd with Stover, them to keep.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turfy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
