well-dug

Tough as they are, they benefit from well-dug soil, good drainage and frequent watering.

Groundwork: The deliciously seedy sunflower 2010

A good cook in a great city is more or less like a general in a vast theater of war who has at his disposal legions of battle-hardened troops in well-dug trenches—in other words, everything he needs to show his bravado.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

The fire-pit was well-dug, ringed and lined with large stones.

The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002

· It is possible to raise a reasonable vegetable plot in well-dug soil (12 "- 18" deep at least), using liquid fertilizer alone.

1. Basket Composting 1992

But rank manure is not needful; a deep, well-dug, sweet loam will produce a healthy growth and neat handsome heads.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

= = -- At quite the end of the month sow in drills, a foot or fifteen inches apart, on deep, well-dug ground, without manure.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

-- Sow a little seed for an early supply, in well-dug mellow soil.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

As to the Carrot, into whose well-dug bed the rain found easiest entrance, and sank deepest, he held forth in most eloquent style upon the whole affair; how it was started, and what he had said; how much he had once hoped; how much he now feared.

The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902

There was just enough room for the little engine to be dragged down between the hills -- as they term them -- of the hops without much crushing; but the labourers took good care to empty it first, and even then the wheels made deep ruts in the well-dug soil.

The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne George Manville Fenn 1870

As to the Carrot, into whose well-dug bed the rain found easiest entrance, and sank deepest, he held forth in most eloquent style upon the whole affair; – how it was started, and what he had said; how much he had once hoped; how much he now feared.

Parables From Nature 1857