Before trucking down the dirt, McKnight took soil samples of the existing infield, which was very yellow and sandy in years past.
When it didn't show up, he arranged for a friend, the British nurse Daphne Parish, to drive him to the site, where he took soil samples outside the perimeter fence.
He took soil from the organic farm, which already contained seeds of 35 common weeds, and with it created uniform beds at each of the sites, urban, suburban and rural, so that the growing medium and weed population would be the same throughout.
The firm took soil samples from habitats in the New Jersey Pine Barrens and worked with James Sotillo, a Long Island soil specialist, to infuse the various sections of this garden with the fungi and bacteria specific plants needed to thrive.
Five months after its application in field trials, we took soil samples for reisolating FZB42 derivatives.
He took soil samples during winter, the spring snowmelt, and the dry, sunny summer.
