Another soil enhancer we use at Arrows is called greensand, which is a mineral additive that provides potassium tomatoes and peppers are heavy potassium feeders and improves drainage.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE ARROWS COOKBOOK] Reference

Westbury, there is good iron-ore in the greensand, which is being smelted now, as it used to be in the Weald of Surrey and Kent ages since.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madam How and Lady Why] Reference

These developed in old deposits of greenish clay containing greensand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland] Reference

It has since been given to phosphatic concretions found chiefly in the greensand in Suffolk and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference

Other natural rock sources like Jersey greensand have long been used in the eastern United States on some unusual potassium-deficient soils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

That it is by them is shown by the stone used, which is greensand and not the Caen stone of later-Norman workmen, and by differences in working.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference

There are, however, many beds of marl, greensand, gypsum, limestone, saline and vegetable deposits available for the improvement of farming lands, in the Union.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

They had reached the edge of a memorial garden, and An'desha paused long enough to take some of the greensand in season, flowers-that were always left there for visitors to place upon graves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Rising]

The variety of their strata make the cliffs interesting to geologists, for here are found layers of different kinds of chalk, limestone, greensand, marls, chert, and interspersed lines of flints.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

Reference may first be made to the so-called coprolites or phosphatic nodules which have been found in great abundance in the greensand formation, in the crag of the eastern counties, and in the chalk formation of the southern counties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

The manurial properties of road-scrapings in parts of Cambridgeshire were noticed, and on being examined were found to be in part composed of phosphate of lime, derived from phosphatic nodules dug out of the underlying greensand, and used for the purpose of repairing roads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

Ga ada lagi deh status "still with my laptop, a pack of marlboro, and a can of greensand".    From Wordnik.com.  [TukangKomentar.Net] Reference

The coprolites lay undisturbed in countless numbers in the lias, the greensand, and the Suffolk crag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject] Reference

Professor Owen (as may be seen in Lyell's 'Manual'), that a bird certainly lived during the deposition of the upper greensand.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference

On the other hand, in some cases soil needs greensand, rock phosphates as well as bone meal that compost won't be able to provide.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

For potassium, add Texas greensand (a marine deposit that also contains phosphorus, iron, magnesium and trace minerals) and seaweed.    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] Reference

(Amonites planulatus, Gryphaea arcuata). (g) Secondary sandstone with lignites; iron sand; Wealden clay; greensand or green sandstone; (h).    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference

Dramatic greensand cliffs and tumbling landslips descend to a wild rocky shore punctuated by St Catherine's Lighthouse perched on the edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The fertilizing minerals -- gypsum, marl, and greensand -- abound, and their judicious use readily restores the lands when exhausted by improvident cultivation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Acres and Liberty] Reference

Supplement to Lyell's 'Manual,' published in 1858, clear evidence of the existence of whales in the upper greensand, some time before the close of the secondary period.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the origin of species] Reference

Pyrenees and Appennines are, therefore, more modern than the limestone of Jura, and the greensand which they have raised, and more ancient than the tertiary strata and the diluvium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference

Pyrenees, raised the limestone of Jura, and the greensand, but, in addition, they have also raised the tertiary formations; the diluvium is alone horizontal in the vicinity of these mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference

But now we may read in the Supplement to Lyell's 'Manual,' published in 1858, clear evidence of the existence of whales in the upper greensand, some time before the close of the secondary period.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 09 (historical)] Reference

Added to the fact that the state's last remaining Cretaceous-age greensand marl pit may soon be closing, the shuttering of the state museum would mark the death of professional paleontology in the state.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

On digging or boring below these, we ought to come upon the chalk, and below the chalk again, with its cretaceous congeners the greensand or the gault, we ought to meet the Weald clay and the Hastings sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science in Arcady] Reference

Yearly they tumble in, and yearly are renewed, as the soft greensand strata are graven away, and what must have been once a long promontory becomes a group of fantastic pierced rocks, exactly like those which are immortalized upon the willow-pattern plates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prose Idylls, New and Old] Reference

Thus it is evident, that between the epoch at which the limestone of Jura was deposited, and that of the precipitation of the system of greensand and chalk which covers it, there has been upon the surface of the globe a complete change in the state of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference

Its clear waters pass from the oolite of the Cotswolds, by the blue lias and its fossils, the sandstone rock at Clifton Hampden, the gravels of Wittenham, the great chalk range of the downs, the greensand, the Reading Beds, to the geological pie of the London Basin, and the beds of drifts and brick earth in which lie bedded the frames and fragments of its prehistoric beasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference

Depending on your soil’s pH level, you may also need to add dolomitic lime (to reduce acidity) and greensand (a mineral additive that builds potassium and strong root growth).    From Wordnik.com.  [THE ARROWS COOKBOOK] Reference

Cambridge; if we add again the rainfall upon that vast flat area, utterly unable to escape through rivers which have enough to do to drain the hills around; it is easy to understand how peat, the certain product of standing water, has slowly overwhelmed the rich alluvium, fattened by the washing of those phosphatic greensand beds, which (discovered by the science of the lamented Professor Henslow) are now yielding round Cambridge supplies of manure seemingly inexhaustible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prose Idylls, New and Old] Reference

"The greensand was used for all the traditional architectural work on the bandstand so when it came to doing the restoration the same process was really needed.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Mr Laing, 43, said: "The foundry itself is one of the last traditional foundries in the UK and the western world that uses the old process of greensand moulding for casting work.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"On the slopes of the Pyrenees and Appennines, two of the formations are raised up, namely, the oolite and the greensand and chalk; the tertiary formations, and the diluvium that covers them, have preserved their primitive horizontality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference

We most frequently observe, counting from below upwards; lias (marly limestone with gryphites), oolites, limestone with polypi, slaty limestone with fish, crustacea, and globules of oxide of iron (Amonites planulatus, Gryphaea arcuata). (g) Secondary sandstone with lignites; iron sand; Wealden clay; greensand or green sandstone; (h) Chlorite; tufted and white chalk; (planerkalk, limestone of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

greensand soil enhancer, 75.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE ARROWS COOKBOOK] Reference

"The system of greensand and chalk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference