Technique in agriculture and horticulture of piling soil up around the base of a plant.
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Examples for "earthing "
Examples for "earthing "
1 He said he had never seen an earthing wire used as the active wire.
2 One common complaint was earthing along the line.
3 I guessed that something had shorted in the detonator circuit and was earthing the power supply.
4 The culture is the same as given for celery, except that no earthing or blanching is required.
5 The after-cultivation consists in thorough tillage until the time of "handling" or earthing up the plants.
1 Fingerprint ridging falls into one of three broad patterns: arches, loops, or whorls.
2 He relies upon ridging , and the proper disposition of open furrows, in the old Greek way.
3 He is constantly mining, and ridging it up.
4 Crews sought to construct fire lines by hand in the steep, rugged terrain ridging the river, Christensen said.
5 Mrs. Deford's lips twisted in an up-curling movement and her eyebrows lifted, ridging her forehead in fine furrows.
1 Suppose you have an eye on the hilling up of the potatoes, Ted.
2 In wet soils or seasons hilling may be advisable, but very seldom otherwise.
3 Protecting your taters with the hilling technique
4 A little temporary hilling will do no harm, but the ground should be kept as level as possible.
5 There is a broad hilling up, so as to have a slope inward toward the plants, as well as away from them.
6 The operation of " hilling " consists in drawing up the soil about the stems of growing plants, usually at the time of second or third hoeing.
7 I've heard there's work in Hilling , in the Hilling Forest.
8 But the fall since 2010 is the second biggest in the G20, ventured Hilling .
9 Michael and Shirley Anderson, along with their MP Julie Hilling , spoke to Charlie Stayt and Louise Minchin on BBC Breakfast.
10 Duncan Hilling , now 94, refused a medal after the war because he had mixed feelings and did not feel he deserved one.
11 The figures came in a written parliamentary answer to Julie Hilling , Labour MP for Bolton West, who has described them as "quite shocking".
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