Clods Sentence Examples

It creates no clods and warms up the quickest in the spring.

We got down to the bare minimum of small clods of peat but there was no obvious " find " to be seen.

A mattock with which to break the clods is often found represented in Anglo-Saxon drawings as subsidiary to the plough.

It is advisable immediately to hand-rake it with common hay-rakes, and thus to remove all stones and clods, and to secure a uniform close cover of plants.

If you have a clay soil leave the clods of turned earth for the winter weather to break them down.

He who eats during the harvest is not removing clods.

The soil is cultivated or plowed at frequent intervals to move the clods around and dry them out.

A good time is in the autumn, leaving the cultivated soil in rough clods to be acted on by the winter weather.

Very dusty when dry, silt will rarely form clods.

If you are making a conventional garden, this will mean tilling up the soil, raking out the stones and clods of dirt, adding compost and tilling it again.

Under the article " To falowe," he observes, " the greater clottes (clods) the better wheate, for the clottes kepe the wheat warme all wynter; and at March they will melte and breake and fal in manye small peces, the whiche is a new dongynge and refreshynge of the come."

The autumnal subsidence of the river was followed by shallow ploughing performed by oxen yoked to clumsy wooden ploughs, the clods being afterwards levelled with wooden hoes by hand.

Harrow down the clods, level the ridges by cross ploughing, work the land thoroughly.