Sentence examples for soil poor from inspiring English sources

It grows in dry soil, poor soil, moist soil, near-bog, bright sun and part shade.

The confederados, as they later became known, founded a handful of settlements, most of which failed owing to the combination of difficult soil, poor roads and biting ants that had disheartened many colonists before them.

The sand is a soil poor in nutrients and with a low content of organic matter (Table 2) and as such a growth medium in which positive effects of digestates are expected.

High salt content in soil, poor soil structure and fresh water shortage are the restricting factors for construction of ecological landscapes in coastal regions with very heavy saline silt-soil.

Despite these advantages, geotechnical concerns such as ballast degradation, fouling (e.g. coal and subgrade soil), poor drainage of soft subgrade, pumping of clayey subgrade, differential track settlement and track misalignment due to excessive lateral movements exacerbate the cost of track maintenance.

Primitive farming methods, overworked and under-fertilized soil, poor seed and water scarcity are the principal obstacles to increased production.

In the cerrados, where land is cheap but soils poor, they have developed a very different sort of farming: large-scale, mechanised, capital-intensive, scientific.

This behavior has been often observed in root grown in soils poor in phosphorous [27].

The cactus has a high adaptability to extreme conditions of drought, cold, and thin soils poor in nutriments (Guzmán et al. 2010).

Use of biochar thus could offer a viable option to improve moisture storage and water use efficiency for soils poor in organic carbon in arid/semiarid zones.

In the Colombian hillsides cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is cultivated because of its ability to produce high yields on acidic soils poor in nutrients.