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seedbed - use in sentences
Converse of object
- prepare: And a lot of time spent keeping an eye out for them while we're preparing seedbeds.
- create: The stubble from the previous crop has to be plowed into the ground and then the land is worked to create a good seedbed.
- provide: Good soil management practices are important to provide the best possible seedbed in which to plant a crop.
- use: Found this better than using a stale seedbed on this light land.
- produce: Can try to use methods which don't involve the traditional methods of producing a seedbed: minimum cultivation methods.
- get: Our first cabbages are ready to plant and the soil is dry enough to get a perfect seedbed.
Adjective modifier
- stale: In spring cereals, allowing time for a stale seedbed helps to reduce weed numbers in the growing crop.
- dry: Hybrid rape varieties, with their lower seed rates, are particularly at risk - especially if drilled late into poor dry seedbeds.
- good: The stubble from the previous crop has to be plowed into the ground and then the land is worked to create a good seedbed.
- prepared: Chervil ( Anthriscus cerefolium ) Annual Chervil does not like being transplanted so it is best to sow direct in to a prepared seedbed.
- rough: The group are discussing slug control, which could cause some conflict with rougher seedbeds.
- moist: In the spring the land should be worked to a fine, moist seedbed.
Modifies a noun
- preparation: Printed in Eastern Daily Press February 9th 2002 A new approach to seedbed preparation has been a great success on a Norfolk farm.
- technique: This is useful where the stale seedbed technique has been used.
- condition: Gardeners talk about tilth or seedbed conditions meaning that they need a suitably fine soil in which to plant their seeds.
- moisture: In contrast, a mere 10 % had both adequate seedbed moisture and more than 10mm of rain within a month of sowing.
Noun used with modifier
- tillage: The new HE-VA MEGA DAN can be used for mixing soils before the plow or to create minimum tillage seedbeds.
Preposition: in
- autumn: Propagation: Sow seed of known wild origin in a seedbed in autumn.
Preposition: of
- saint: The monks lived a very ascetic life and their monastery became a seedbed of saints.
Preposition: for
- talent: The industry is a recognized seedbed for creative talent.
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