Sentence examples for off the soil from inspiring English sources

Chop off the foliage, knock off the soil and let the tuber dry at room temperature.

A barricade protected the trees along with signs asking fans to keep off the soil.

"We plant trees with trunk flare at grade level, and come back a year later to shave off the soil above the flare," he said.

Since then, he has shown us wonderful things, in films such as "Prénom: Carmen" (1984) and "Je Vous Salue, Marie" (1985), but he has never shaken off the soil of his time underground.

He could see down the plughole, so the sun must have shone, and he heard his father digging potatoes, knocking off the soil, and his mother fetching the washing in because the sky promised a shower.

Mueller and his co-engineer Thomas Lüdert realised that most of the water was running off the soil and causing damage to infrastructure, rather than soaking into the earth.

In fact, because they are composed of concentrations of salts, they are capable of killing off many of the soil organisms that are responsible for healthy soil structure.

If the bags are still visible when you want to use the compost, they can be sieved out or picked off the surface of the soil.

When re-potting a plant overrun by collembola, gently shake off as much of the soil as possible after removing the plant from its old container.

It will be hung onto the tree or anything that is tall enough to keep off the ground from soil, crawling insect, snake, scorpions and anything small insects.

Shake off most of the soil clinging to the roots.