Or, as a Montrealer is said to have said to a Newfoundlander laying sod, "Green side up!" Each morning, everywhere, he hunted for "the Walleye," often in frustration, because the Walleye tended not to be where his truck could go: "You just don't roll around with hazmat placards looking for the Wall Street Journal".
Plowing incorporates sod, green-manure crops, and crop residues in the soil; destroys weeds and insects; and improves soil texture and aeration.
In 1994, the family moved into a new house in the Waterford Crossing subdivision, where developers plowed corn and soybean fields and laid down sod as green as Palmolive dishwashing liquid.
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".
Many of those lobster traps have since disappeared, replaced by a neat lawn of green sod.
The basement floor was covered with lush green sod, and thousands of African violets filled the center's emptied pool.
Instead of their creek-bed den of bramble and bush, there was a zoned triangle of immaculate green sod, named for the displaced: Coyote Creek Park.
Fabricated of dark, gleaming mahogany sodded with lush green felt, in 1990, Ms. Levine's tables form a wry comment on Minimalism, especially on Donald Judd's big repeating boxes and planes of saturated color, and on the movement as a kind of men's club.
To determine whether the metabolite increases ROS production in vivo, we examined C. elegans expressing an established oxidative stress-inducible reporter, sod-3::GFP, where green fluorescent protein (GFP) is driven under the endogenous sod-3 gene promoter.
The improvements demanded five acres of new sod, installed around the greens and bunkers, but also in gallery areas, to prepare for the crowds.
