Much of what we do in gardens, such as tilling, and using pesticides, herbicides, and chemical fertilizers, is harmful to the long term health of the soil. From Wordnik.com. [Growing a Beautiful Edible Landscape in an Urban Neighborhood] Reference
There are several initiatives -- such as tilling the soil with animals, deep-soil tilling, and using some fuel for irrigation purposes -- which are being implemented. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Election Day News Conference] Reference
Of the soil, .. but of the sweat in tilling it, –. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Leigh] Reference
What this means is that the earthworms, protozoa, ants and other decomposers that are actively 'tilling' the soil are not there to do so. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
States to industries in preference to the tilling of the soil. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
C/N down by adding fertilizers like seed meal when tilling it in. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
When he was attacked, New was engaged tilling the soil on his own farm. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
Here they lived for ten years tilling a noble farm on the Des Moines river. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
From this give a reason (1) for tilling soil, (2) for rolling after seeding. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Up to forty years of age a man is sowing and tilling, and after forty he reaps. From Wordnik.com. [Dollars and Sense] Reference
Two thirds of the adult males in the country are engaged wholly in tilling the soil. From Wordnik.com. [Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)] Reference
Her son works on the beach here, riding a tractor and tilling the sand to scoop up oil. From Wordnik.com. ['Static kill' of oil well deemed a success; gulf waters begin clearing] Reference
He had lived there quite contentedly for many years, tilling the ground when he had to. From Wordnik.com. [Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor] Reference
Farmers are returning to tilling and using older, more toxic herbicides to control weeds. From Wordnik.com. [Gregory Unruh: Survival Instinct: Businesses Must Turn to Mother Nature] Reference
The usurer is no way profitable to the republic, neither by tilling the ground, by trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Her son works down on the beach here, riding a tractor and tilling the sand to scoop up oil. From Wordnik.com. [Along Louisiana's bayous, more worry about future than relief over well kill] Reference
Nature had been rolling and tilling this green plot of ground for a good many thousand years. From Wordnik.com. [A Dixie School Girl] Reference
He introduced new and better ways of tilling, and also he brought to Ireland a strange new root. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
Orion is the plough left by one of the Pandava brothers after he had finished tilling the heavens. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Oh! much desired Peace! thou art the sole support of those who spend their lives tilling the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Peace] Reference
To Gonds and others who had not this knowledge, the inferior occupation of tilling the land was left. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
After tilling it in, a short period of time was allowed while the soil digested this compost before sowing seeds. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Many of these fisher-folk are farmers also, tilling and cultivating the heath-lands which lie beyond the village. From Wordnik.com. [Denmark] Reference
Mr.N. devoted himself to the raising of cattle, tilling only land enough to supply the wants of himself and family. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
They had been very poor in the old country, his father tilling a small farm while the mother was a weaver of linen. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Market gardeners near the Oregon coast sheet-compost crab waste, tilling it into the soil before it gets too "high.". From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
They were, or many of them were, farmers, who might be innocently tilling the soil as our scouting parties passed, but who, at. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference
If tilling your compost into soil seems to slow the growth of plants, then mulch with it and avoid tilling it in, or adjust the. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
To permit the Hebrews to obtain that assistance in tilling the land, which otherwise they would not have been allowed to do. 2d. From Wordnik.com. [Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible?] Reference
Broadly, however, Pence lacks a deep roster of political staff or advisers who are tasked with tilling the soil for a presidential bid. From Wordnik.com. [The Mike Pence Boomlet] Reference
As useful as tilling rock powders into soil may be, the intense biological activity of the compost pile accelerates their availability. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Production of the material of war had to give way to the production of machinery, the building of railroads and the tilling of the soil. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
Health and cheerfulness are gained by tilling the ground; yet the ground is not tilled for the purpose of securing health and cheerfulness. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education] Reference
The tribes differ somewhat, some being devoted to hunting, according to the ancient, uncivilised way, others take to the tilling of the ground. From Wordnik.com. [From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington] Reference
He sees men tilling the fields, felling the forests, building houses, factories and railroads; he sees them build hospitals, colleges and churches. From Wordnik.com. [The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male] Reference
What the farmers really want is ownership rights to the roughly 70,000 acres of land they have been tilling for the military and the Punjab state government for generations. From Wordnik.com. [Power And Privilege] Reference
By his rule he obliged all his monks to assiduous manual labor in the spirit of penance: he allowed them the use of no cattle to ease them at their work in tilling the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
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