The word "seedbed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a bed of soil in which seeds are sown or planted. For example, "The farmer prepared the soil to be a seedbed and planted his seeds."
He too had grown out of this bottomless "sump and seedbed", "the vowel of earth/dreaming its root/in flowers and snow".
The aristocratic salon, which had been the seedbed for Russian literature, was gradually supplanted by the monthly "thick journals," the editors and critics of which became Russia's tastemakers.
Asparagus seeds are planted in a seedbed to produce crowns used for field setting.
Secondary tillage, to improve the seedbed by increased soil pulverization, to conserve moisture through destruction of weeds, and to cut up crop residues, is accomplished by use of various types of harrows, rollers, or pulverizers, and tools for mulching and fallowing.
This leaves preparation of the seedbed as the best opportunity to create desirable structure, in which large and stable pores extend from the soil surface to the water table or drains, ensuring rapid infiltration and drainage of excess or free water and promoting aeration of the subsoil.
From that seedbed grew the idea that the lives of ordinary people could be described in literary language, and thereby ennobled.
Airports are the seedbed for all that is most alien, angering, and atomized in our twenty-first-century days, and there are times, in this film, when Clooney's eyes appear to glaze and say, Come die with me.
But maybe now that the giant Paris retrospective is over, along with its streams of visitors (not least, many international designers themselves), Mr. Pilati will be able to move his own vision of YSL from seedbed into full flower.
When a good seedbed is prepared only in the row, the seeded crop can become established ahead of the weeds.
Seedbed-preparation procedures depend on soil texture and the desired change in size of aggregates.
The artists Allan Kaprow, Geoffrey Hendricks and Robert Watts, described by their fellow artist Carolee Schneemann as a kind of "Fluxus-seedbed," all taught there in the late 1950s or '60s.
