Sentence examples for earthed up from inspiring English sources

To keep the vegetable white, the asparagus bed must be earthed up into mounds and the shoots cut just as they appear at the surface.

By November, the first onions will have subdivided into clusters of slender calçots, which need to be earthed up or calcar – "shoed" – to encourage them to grow long and white.

Mechanical weeding was implemented 15 days after potato germination, and soil was earthed up along potato rows at potato flowering stage.

"On a day when the leaves and hearts are dry," we are told, it's time to blanch them: "Wrap cardoons with 'collars' of newspaper, corrugated cardboard, brown wrapping paper or black polyethylene tied firmly around the stems.... Alternatively cardoons can be earthed up.

And later, during mechanical weeding and during earthing up of potatoes, only between-row soil was searched.

Population levels of white grubs were assessed through soil samplings prior to planting and again during weeding 15 days after crop emergence and during earthing up of Irish potatoes.

It is in a neighbouring field that crowds of men race to dig the earth up fast enough to receive the bodies.

A second and even third earthing up will be necessary at three- to four-week intervals, as they struggle clear of their earthy clamp.

I would pore over them, amazed by the surreal perfection of the trenching and earthing up, and the servile, waistcoated gardener in attendance.

The myth reflects an earlier creation legend of Prajapati (Brahma), who assumed the shape of a boar in order to lift the earth up out of the primeval waters.

So what is holding the Flat Earth up?