Sentence examples for patch of sod from inspiring English sources

In his orchard at Down House, Darwin established a "weed garden" by clearing a patch of sod and tracking the germination and growth of every seed that sprouted there.

He nourishes the roots with rinse water from the dinner dishes and then, come spring, trims them and sets them, with their leaves intact, in the middle of his family's Seder platter; a bit of commemorative decoration he describes as "a little patch of sod with greens on top".

Ms. Ayer didn't endorse the trendy urban garden fix of spreading cardboard over the earth (or over patches of sod) and dumping dirt and mulch on top.

Inspectors were at a loss to explain the discrepancy until the Clinton administration made available to Hans Blix, then the I.A.E.A.'s director, a series of satellite photos that showed, first, a waste-storage facility, then a row of trees tall enough to screen the facility from the road to the reprocessing plant, then finally a patch of fresh sod where the facility had been buried.

The SOD assay measures all three types of SOD (Cu/Zn-, Mn-, and Fe-SOD).

HUDSON HOTEL What had been an outdoor bar on a second-story terrace is being converted into Tequila Park, a patch of Baja beachfront, with sod, not sand, but plenty of color.

From middle-class families who don't want to forfeit the patch-of-green part of the American Dream megawattto celebrities who are mortified by TV coverage of their sprawling water-hog lawns, homeowners across the Golden State are ripping up sod and replacing it with plastic.

(866 495-4885 www.gwlittle.com A PATCH OF GREEN -- Forget newspaper; these plush sod patches are a much prettier -- not to mention neater -- way to housetrain a dog.

There were remains of sod walls.

Sir Muir Gray is author of Sod 70!

feet of sod has been put down -Merion bluegrass.