Sentence examples for patch of soil from inspiring English sources

After yanking up the roots, Mr. Long was left with a bare patch of soil.

An occasional column about the pleasures and pains of cultivating a (tiny) patch of soil.

Dotting a patch of soil the size of a dining room table, they looked like small, uninteresting cabbages.

Sheldrake knelt down and brushed away leaves to reveal a patch of soil the size of a dinner plate.

The robot analyzed a patch of soil in the Gusev Crater and found it unusually rich in silica.

It is a strange and wonderful feeling, knowing that the future of this patch of soil is in my hands.

Higher plants grow in rock crevices and succeed in forming tussocks on patches of soil.

You did not want to step on any of the brave little blooms that were coming up in this unlikely terrain: bone-dry sandy soil, cracked sheets of dried mud, patches of soil on the ledges of cliffs.

All that was needed to start the rattle's work was a handful of seeds collected from a local meadow and scattered into bare patches of soil in August.

To that end, Curiosity will carry a range of meteorological devices that can monitor weather conditions, along with a laser that can determine the atomic make-up of rocks or patches of soil that it is fired at.

Geographers, anthropologists and other scientists have by now clearly demonstrated that people have been active agents in the biome for millennia, selecting and managing biodiversity and creating small patches of soil throughout the basin.