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  • But if it is planted more than two hundred yards from the beach, it needs either rich or well-manured soil, or the proximity of human habitations.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Method - selected tubers from the previous harvest are usually planted in raised, well-manured, nursery beds, approximately 90-120 cm wide and any convenient length.

    Chapter 19 1987

  • Method - in India germination of the rhizomes is often started in well-manured, hand-watered, shaded, nursery beds during February or March.

    Chapter 28 1987

  • Fifty thousand men brought to this patch of land half the size of a country parish, a patch of land that might become well-manured with their blood.

    Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983

  • Fifty thousand men brought to this patch of land half the size of a country parish, a patch of land that might become well-manured with their blood.

    Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983

  • Let them remain till they are about 6 in. high, then transplant them, 18 in. apart, in well-manured soil.

    Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink

  • In the culinary department, now is the time to sow a little bed of onions in a well-manured bed.

    The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering William Martin

  • Hautbois strawberries which in one season were wholly sterile, and accounts for the circumstance as follows: the plants were taken from the bearing beds the year previous, and were planted in a rich well-manured border, in which they started rapidly into too great luxuriance, the growth being to leaves rather than to fruit.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • They are readily grown from seed sown early in spring, and will grow in any garden soil, but naturally succeed best in deeply-worked, well-manured ground.

    Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink

  • Transplant as soon as ready into deeply-trenched, well-manured soil, about 2 ft. apart.

    Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink

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