The phrase "above soil" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to agriculture, gardening, or environmental discussions, typically referring to anything that is situated or occurring on the surface of the soil.
Example: "The plants above soil are thriving due to the recent rainfall."
Alternatives: "on the surface" or "above ground".
(a) internode elongation pattern Rayada and typical deepwater rice (Habigonj amam I-VIII after Hasanuzzaman (1974) (bar = SD), (b) number of internodes per plants, (c) phenotypic comparison of basal internodes (above soil) in Rayada in control and inundated condition (bar = 5 cm), (d) comparative phenotypes BRRI52, Kaladigha, and inundated Kaladigha (left to right, respectively) at plants maturity.
Perhaps the tree is sprouting below the graft union just above soil level, but because it has grown over the years, you haven't noticed.
As ticket-holders enter the venue's handsome conservatory - steel and glass above, soil and woodchips below - they are issued with cordless headphones through which they will hear the set.
Air temperatures from 1 m above soil surface were taken to determine cumulative corn heat units (CHU, base 30/10 °C).
In addition, the difference between δ18Osc and δDwax source water values reflects leaf-water isotope enrichment above soil water, and thus transpiration25,30,31 (Fig. 3; Figs S8 and S9).
Four wheatgrass provenances were sown in a three-factorial block design with three cutting heights at harvest (5, 10, and 15 cm above soil surface) and three levels of cutting frequency (one, two, and four cuts year−1).
Primary productivity (the rate at which photosynthesis occurs) of taiga ecosystems often is limited by cold soil temperatures (see above Soils).
As time passes, tree removal will likely become even less effective: In Chernobyl, the above-soil portion of trees now holds less than 20% of total forest contaminants, and that percentage is decreasing steadily.
In contrast to vascular plants in which high concentrations of metals are mostly observed above metal-rich soils (Kabata-Pendias 2011), macrofungi can accumulate extremely high concentrations of metallic elements even when growing above soils with low metal contents.
JA-resistant plants were scored by their increased root length and transferred to the above-described soil mixture.
In days the little seedlings were raised like flagpoles above the soil.
