(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.
Weed
Definition:
(n.) A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
(n.) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds.
(n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
(n.) Underbrush; low shrubs.
(n.) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
(n.) Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
(n.) An animal unfit to breed from.
(n.) Tobacco, or a cigar.
(v. t.) To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
(v. t.) To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
(v. t.) To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
(v. t.) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(2) In lieu of crop rotation and biodiversity (the non-toxic way to control weeds), the MSU extension service promotes what the article calls a "diversified herbicide program".
(3) The condition has occurred for many years and has been thought to have been associated with ingestion of Crofton weed (Eupatorium adenophorum).
(4) There is, of course, a place for regulatory vigilance, for forcing entire institutions to clean up after themselves by paying hefty fines, and weeding out bad practices.
(5) In allergologic out-patient departments of Dubrovnik, Split, Sibenik, Zadar, Pula and Rijeka, 300 patients with pollinosis have been tested by the application of the prick method of group allergens of grass, tree and weed pollen, particularly of Parietariae (pellitory) pollen.
(6) The coalition claims that authorities were forcing teachers, businessmen and students to weed the fields or pick cotton or face fines of up to 1 million soum (about £210) for university students.
(7) Bob McCulloch, the St Louis County prosecutor who oversaw the state grand jury inquiry that looked into Brown’s death, insisted that discrimination by law enforcement was a rarity but said authorities must “weed it out”.
(8) Unions blame 70% fall in employment tribunal cases on fees Read more “The government originally said making people pay would weed out vexatious claims.
(9) He also promised Thatcher a new crackdown on immigrant male fiances, saying that he was thinking of "a kind of steeplechase designed to weed out south Asians in particular".
(10) The substances studied generally proved very active against the weeds tested and showed marked specificity of action towards Setaria and Echinochloa.
(11) We haven’t ascertained how much of the forests it has taken over, but a significant portion may in reality be unpalatable weeds and effectively unusable from an elephant’s perspective.
(12) In a statement on Wednesday , he said that he will criticise the Met for "the routine gathering and retention of information that was collateral, not linked to an operation or the prevention of crime and it should have been disposed of as part of a weeding process."
(13) But the matriarch of women who toke is Nancy Botwin ( Mary-Louise Parker ) in the long-running TV series Weeds .
(14) One of their number, James Howard Kunstler, blasted the High Line as "decadent" , "a weed-filled 1.5 mile-long stretch of abandoned elevated railroad", where "mistakes are artfully multiplied and layered", such as "the notion that buildings don't have to relate to the street-and-block grid ... instead of repairing the discontinuities of recent decades, we just celebrate them and make them worse".
(15) We have the know-how to track organisations that achieve the best results for patients, and weed out those that don't come up to scratch."
(16) After weeding, planting or harvesting, people attempt to make money.
(17) Animal Practice is a Universal Television production based on an irreverent New York veterinarian, played by Justin Kirk of Weeds and Angels in America.
(18) Some physicochemical properties of the mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNA) from plants of flax, broad bean and mung bean, and from tissue culture cells of jimson weed, soybean, petunia and tobacco were determined.
(19) Weed and water samples collected from river water abstraction points, reservoirs, tap water supplies, and animal water troughs fed from this supply all contained low levels of iodine-125.
(20) There has been a troubling several decade-long pattern of denial on the part of the seed patent holders over the likelihood of resistance emerging - for example Monsanto authors of a 1997 paper asserted weed resistance would never happen.