Converse of object

• drain: The plant prefers a sunny area with well draining soil.

• cultivate: However, seed may persist for a much shorter period in cultivated soil or near the soil surface.

• loosen: In cohesive soils, loosen the soil in the sides and bottom of the pit with a spade or fork.

• enrich: Lesley suggests enriching the soil with well rotted manure, or mushroom compost and adding blood, fish and bone before planting the hedge.

Adjective modifier

• fertile: Feeding: Tree Peonies prefer rich, fertile soil.

• well-drained: They prefer well-drained soil, sun or semi shade.

• sandy: Sandy soils with low clay content will be most rapidly affected.

• moist: Willow and poplar grow best in wet or moist soils.

• contaminated: Two further regulatory constraints to sustainable development of brownfield land relate to land filling of contaminated soil.

• acidic: The flowers grow up to 20cm in diameter with pink blooms in alkaline soils and blue blooms in acidic soils.

Modifies a noun

• erosion: The result is massive soil erosion: every year about 15,000 acres of fertile topsoil are washed away in Haiti.

• fertility: Another means by which soil fertility is restored in organic systems is through legumes.

• moisture: The soil moisture sensor measures the vacuum created by the soil by the lack of moisture.

• conditioner: The fiber is a much dryer material which would be applied as a soil conditioner or compost.

• improver: It is a fantastic way of turning compostable kitchen waste into a nutrient rich soil improver.

Noun used with modifier

• clay: What is the minimum depth of foundation in a clay soil?

• loam: An example of this two way transfer comes from an experiment on a silty clay loam soil ( pH 7.0 ) at Rothamsted.

• gley: In the infilled hollows between drumlins, gley and peaty gley soils form.

• draining: These plants require a free draining soil - and this being a raised bed, it is really well drained.

• peat: Seed buried in a peat soil for 20 years retained 8 % viability.