Seedbed is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SEEDBED in dictionary:

NOUN:
• land prepared for seeding
• a bed of fine soil in which seedlings are germinated.
• area of soil prepared for the growing of seedlings before they are transplanted
• a bed where seedlings are grown before transplanting

Words related to SEEDBED

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Words that contain SEEDBED

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How to use SEEDBED in a sentence

• Oxford, long the seed-bed, for the english world, of the idealism inspired by Kant and Hegel, has recently become the nursery of a very different way of thinking.
• The usual practice is to keep the seedlings one year in the seedbed and two years in the nursery rows before they are set out.
• Then it will be well to level down and point in, half a spade deep, a thin coat of decayed manure to make a nice kindly seed-bed.
• The preparation of the seed-bed must be of a generous nature.
• But early sowing should be followed by early planting, for it is bad practice to leave the plants crowded in the seed-bed until the summer is far advanced.
• A good seed-bed in an open spot is absolutely necessary.
• It is usual to draw direct from the seed-bed for planting out as opportunities occur, and this method answers fairly well.
• If the land is not ready for planting, thin the seed-bed and prick out the seedlings.
• The second and third sowings need not be pricked out from the seed-bed, but may be taken direct therefrom to the places where they are to finish their course.
• A fine seed-bed in a sheltered spot is desirable, and as soon as the seedlings are large enough they should be pricked out, three inches or so apart.
• The plants in the seed-bed should be thinned to three inches, and must have water in dry weather.
• In taking the last lot from the seed-bed, a crop should be left untouched to mature at twelve to fifteen inches apart.
• Sow in the month of April thickly, but evenly, cover lightly, and roll or tread to give a firm seed-bed, and make a good finish.
• A fine seed-bed should be prepared either in one large piece or in four-feet strips, as may best suit other arrangements.
• Make a nice seed-bed, and sow in the month of March in shallow drills fifteen inches apart, and as the plants advance thin them until they stand a foot apart in the drill.
• Prepare the seed-bed as for Parsnips, sow in drills twelve inches apart, and thin the plants to nine inches in the rows.
• The seed-bed should be nicely prepared, and any old plaster, or other rubbish containing lime, should be dug in.
• Leave the plants in the seed-bed until ready for transfer to final positions.
• It will only do harm to leave them crowded in the seed-bed, and the second move will better enable them to withstand winter frosts.
• Slugs may be kept off by a dusting of soot or wood-ashes, and some precaution must also be adopted to prevent birds from disturbing the seed-bed.
• The best way of making the seed-bed is to open a trench, putting a layer of decayed manure at the bottom, and mingling a further quantity with the soil when it is returned.
• A rich and friable seed-bed is one remedy for the fly, for it promotes rapid growth, which speedily places the plant beyond the power of its insect adversary.
• The seedbed must be as level as a floor, and compact, for good use to be made of the wheel-seeder.
• From what has just been said, it will be apparent that in properly preparing the seed-bed, it will be necessary to study closely the requisite conditions.
• Firmness in the seed-bed is more important, relatively, in summer or early autumn when evaporation from the surface soil is the most rapid.
• In corn fields the last cultivation will make a suitable seed-bed, and the same is sometimes true in cotton fields.
• The less complete the preparation of the seed-bed, the greater also is the necessity for shade.
• But, as with all other plants, it will grow more quickly and more luxuriantly on a well-prepared seed-bed, where it may be thought worth while to thus prepare the land.
• It does not follow, however, that such a condition of the seed-bed will give a better stand of the plants than a pulverized condition of the same, as some have contended.
• Much rolling of loose soils has been recommended when preparing the seed-bed with a view to firm them.
• The seed-bed of reason lies, then, in the immediate, but what reason draws thence is momentum and power to rise above its source.
• Having planted his corn, he made his pregnant squaw walk round the seed-bed in hope of receiving from the Source of life increased blessing and sustenance for body and mind.
• His mind, though at the beginning a blank, is a potential seedbed in which we may plant what teachings we will.

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