tilth
IPA: tˈɪɫθ
noun
- Agricultural labour; husbandry.
- The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture.
- Cultivated land
- Rich cultivated soil.
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Examples of "tilth" in Sentences
- They bought acres of tilth.
- The farm is certified as the organic tilth.
- It is easier to work it into a fine tilth in the spring.
- The slower a rototiller moves forward, the more soil tilth can be obtained.
- “Your women are a tilth for you (to cultivate) so go to your tilth as ye will” (2:223)
- Heavier soils can be dug when it's dry so frost action will help break clods to a tilth.
- One horticultural dictionary defines "tilth" as the fine crumbly surface layer of soil produced by tilling.
- When properly applied and managed, biosolids can provide essential plant nutrients, improve soil structure and tilth.
- Together they stabilize soil aggregates, building a better soil habitat, improving soil structure, tilth and productivity.
- Compost piles can help improve soil conditions for spring time plantings by restoring tilth and microorganisms to the soil.
- In the process, these hardworking underground creatures are also largely responsible for building good tilth and soil structure.
- These are the fair virgin streams of Nile, the river that waters Egypt's tilth, fed by pure melting snow instead of rain from heaven.
- Bermed beds with incredible soil tilth and free labor in the way of unpaid students to plant and weed make the plantings here lush and healthy.
- They include improving soil microbiology, increase soil organic matter, build soil tilth and structure, increase earth worm population and so on.
- It's got just the right blend of precipitation, fertility, tilth, and moderate or negligible slopes, along with a relatively lengthy growing season.
- Earth had gathered in the cavity of its head and, as I eased it out, a fine tilth of dried soil emptied onto my palm, like sand running through an egg timer.
- Rake it all over to a good 'tilth' (gardening-speak for well-mixed, crumbly soil that allows room for plants to expand and grow and get the air they need) and you're ready to go.
- Six and a half thousand years ago, as the sea receded, the marsh silted up with a rich tilth and became, in slow succession, a freshwater reed swamp, then a wet fen woodland, and then a raised bog.
- Your homemade compost will promote soil structure, help to maintain soil moisture, moderate soil temperature, improve soil tilth, balance your soil's pH level so that nutrients are released slowly to plants and provide a food source for soil organisms.
- After the beginning of March, you shall beginne to sow your Barley vpon that ground which the yéere before did lye fallow, and is commonly called your tilth, or fallow field: and if any part of it consist of stiffe and tough ground, then you shall, vpon such ground, sow your
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