There was no corn to hoe, no peas to pick, no weeding to do, no daily toil on farm and garden.
Wood-ashes and bone-dust are excellent fertilizers, and should be sown on the surface on the row as soon as planted, and gradually worked in by weeding and cultivation during the growing season.
By the use of the hoe and hand-weeding keep them scrupulously clean during the growing season, and when the tops are killed by frost mow them off.
Where the topography of the land or the presence of stumps renders this impossible the weeding must of course be done by hand.
Thus the cost of weeding is lessened during the early years of the plantation while the plants are small.
As soon as the plants begin to shade the land they thereby aid in the weed eradication, and weedingthen becomes less expensive.
Weeding early, mowing when cut, and an occasional top-dressing, would increase the durability of all the perennial species.
We have already adverted to weeding as a requisite in the improvement of meadow; we are equally clear upon the subject of draining.
Boys are such harum-scarum creatures," said the old woman, as she bent painfully over her weeding again.
Aunt 'Liza had been weeding her little vegetable garden at the back of the house when she first heard the confused shouting of many voices.
The weeding out of human souls, some for fatness and smiles, some for leanness and tears, is surely a heartless selective process--as heartless as it is natural.
When the common man's day shall have arrived, the new social institutions of that day will prevent the weeding out of weakness and inefficiency.
She was his own niece, who had been stooping down, hidden among the bushes as she was weeding the garden.
The kind-hearted Frau was weeding her strawberry bed in the spring garden-making, and was throwing over the fence into the public road superfluous runners.
She had laboured in the fields always, hoeing and weeding and reaping and carrying wood and driving mules, and continually rising with the first streak of daybreak.
Bernadou was close beside them, watering and weedingthose flowers that were at once his pride and his recreation, making the face of his dwelling bright and the air around it full of fragrance.
Spend your time no more in weeding in my garden, you can employ yourself much better; you shall have the reward of your ingenuity as well as of your industry.
Sue, piteously, from the little plot of easy weeding her mother had given her to do.
Planters in favour of clean weeding say such plants keep light and air from the ground, and that they are not good food for the soil.
Some maintain that perfectly cleanweeding is a waste of time and money; they believe in having a clean circle of ground round each tree, and keeping the weeds down on the rest of the land by putting in some variety of dwarf spreading plant.
An hour later, when she found her in the garden kneeling by the violet bed, weeding it, she knelt down beside her, and weeded too.
That satisfied all parties, and the weeding began that afternoon.
There now, Eva," said Almira, "by weeding and gathering vegetables you can earn your missionary money.
I think Evaline is about right," she said; "singing and weeding don't go together very well.
A heavy rain means a good deal of cultivating and weedingimmediately afterward in order to conserve the moisture.
The old adage, "a stitch in time saves nine," will bear its fullest application in the care and weeding of a coffee estate.
We have no weeds that run to seed in less than thirty days, and if the fields are gone over, once a month, and any weed that can be found pulled up and buried, the work of weeding will be reduced to a minimum.
But if the weeds, that are bound to spring up, are allowed to run to seed, the work of weeding will be greatly increased and will require the labor of a large gang to keep the fields in order.
From the time the land is first cleared, weeding should commence, and it is astonishing how little it will cost if care is taken that no weed be allowed to run to seed.
Thirty-nine other children were too young for the weeding gang, at least six of whom were quadroons.
However, the labourer is not able to give his entire attention to fibre-drawing, for occasionally a day has to be spent in weeding and brushwood clearance, but his half-share interest covers this duty.
At Hope Hall we set him to weeding the garden and a very happy inmate of the Home was our poor friendless Greek.
Widow Mole knew nothing, but wasweeding the paths at Greenhow; Betsy Seddon and Molly Barnes were crying piteously "at thought of madam and her little girl as might be fraught to death by them there rascals.
Meantime Mrs Carbonel had turned to Widow Mole, who, after her first curtsey, had been weeding away diligently and coughing.
Once on our travels we passed a man who was weeding his field.
Women never assist in ploughing, though they may be seen helping in the fields with the weeding and hoeing, and even with the harvesting.
I'm sure she would, and she would like the collection of stones we are going to make, and she would like you to help Miss Burridge by weeding the garden that they have started.
Bert was telling about weeding the garden with Veronica, and Diana leaned a little toward Philip.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weeding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
