Sentence examples for packed soil from inspiring English sources

They require deep, rich, but loosely packed soil.

Instead of the concrete surface used by Vanderbilt, Andrews covered the track's graded and packed soil with six inches of gravel and limestone saturated with tar and oil.

The procedure used for soil packing was reproduced with 25 and 50 wt% contaminated sandy soil without substantial variation in the characteristics of the packed soil.

The trend of increasing gravel content with depth suggests loosely packed soil aggregates with greater porosity and comparatively lower bulk density.

Gas phase diffusional resistance (D0/D) was measured using packed soil columns containing a fixed relative saturation of dodecane with varying moisture contents.

This suggests loosely packed soil aggregates with higher porosity which predicts greater transmission of dissolved pollutants from leachate along with hydraulic gradient toward groundwater unless chemical and natural processes of retardation occur.

Deep tillage implements, used chiefly to break up hardpan and packed soils, include the subsoiler and the chisel plow.

Regardless of soil properties, over 90% of the added fungal propagules were recovered from the surface layer of columns of packed soils representing model combinations of texture (sandy or clayey) and pH values (acid or alkaline).

These were very hardworking people, but there is simply no way in the world to pack soil from the side, or in any wise to pack it and settle it as firmly as rain and snow and heat have done in the years since the world began.

Make sure to pack soil into any air pockets or open space around your plants.

Prior to the experimental setup, we cleared the gut contents of the worms to avoid contamination from packing soil by washing the earthworms with tap water and placing them in clean plastic boxes containing only moistened tissue for 24 48 hours at room temperature.