(n.) A ravine, or part of the deep bed of a torrent when dry; a gully.
(v. t.) To swallow greedily; to gulp down.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hippies and peaceniks hid out in California Gulch, a fertile valley nearby.
(2) TOP TIP Don't miss Pinnacle's unique talus caves, Bear Gulch in the east and Balconies Cave in the west.
Mulch
Definition:
(n.) Half-rotten straw, or any like substance strewn on the ground, as over the roots of plants, to protect from heat, drought, etc., and to preserve moisture.
(v. t.) To cover or dress with mulch.
Example Sentences:
(1) For that matter, mulching with bark, grit or slate will help keep the surface roots cooler and retain moisture in hot weather.
(2) Here, fruit and vegetables left unsold each day in Budgens are mulched, along with woody branches and soil, by the 20 local people who volunteer in the garden.
(3) The Royal Horticultural Society put out guidelines for domestic gardeners to save water, such as mulching and improving the soil by digging in large amounts of compost or other organic matter.
(4) Use a swoe (a flat push-and-pull hoe) to loosen the surface: this will act as a mulch – especially on heavy soils.
(5) In Pinjarra, a small town of 3,200 about 17km inland from Mandurah, where Hastie and Turnbull addressed a gathering of Liberal party faithful on Sunday night, Pam Squires had already mulched the political flyers she got in the mail and couldn’t remember any of the candidates’ names.
(6) Such techniques already exist, from terracing to prevent soil loss through erosion and flooding, minimum or zero tillage, coupled with crop rotation and the application of manure, compost or mulching.
(7) A single exposure of growing wheat plants to patulin can produce yield reductions similar to those observed in stubble-mulch farming.
(8) For interpretation we used the "relationship of excitability" as described recently by Mulch and Scherer for the thermal test.
(9) All those little animals and plants, he said, crushed into mulch, that thing you call oil.
(10) Back in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens we were mulching, drip-watering and allowing our lawns to brown off during dry spells, just as Kew Gardens and Wakehurst Place are doing here in London.
(11) It also worth mulching around plants to keep weeds down and water locked into the soil – grass clippings work well.
(12) Mulch newly planted trees and shrubs after a good watering, and choose new plants adapted to drought, such as grey-foliaged plants, sages, lavenders, santolina, or those with fat leaves which store water, such as sedums and sempervivums.
(13) Your body will decompose to a grey, pulpy mulch that will fertilise the soil the next generation will nonchalantly trample over on its way to the hologram shop.
(14) All were covered with reddish-brown mulch except for two that appeared newly dug, neither with any kind of marking and one of them presumably Tsarnaev's.
(15) Anything you cut down, such as hedge prunings, can be used for a mulch.
(16) If weeds are a problem you can modify a crop for herbicide resistance, as Monsanto has done, or you can use a combination of unglamorous but effective ground cover, mulching, soil management, rotation, weeding or even use weed crops in other constructive ways.
(17) Do not add small dribbles of water frequently; instead, give individual plants a good soak about once a week, and then mulch if you can.
(18) The presumed source of infection was old prairie hay used for mulching.
(19) Mulch can easily take the form of inorganic gravel or chippings, but there are many products now available.
(20) Applied this spring while the soil is moist, and spread evenly in a 5-10cm layer, a mulch will form a protective topping to the soil to hold the moisture in.