trench
A long cut, ditch, channel, especially man-made.
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It is easy to use but a little bit more expensive. Seed tapes are seeds spaced out and glued onto a porous tape. You just dig a shallow trench as long as the tape. Place the tape in the trench, cover and water! ...
Trench Edging
Trench edging is the simplest edging and it complements most gardens. Create the cut edge with a trencher or sharp flat spade. Cut a v-shaped ditch between 4 and 6 inches wide around the garden.
Trench Method: A traditional potato planting method involves digging a shallow trench, about 6" deep and placing the seed potatoes in the trench, eyes facing up. You then cover the potatoes with a couple of inches of soil.
Trench Irrigation
Apply water by filling a trench alongside your row vegetables and allow it to penetrate deeply into the root zone before watering again to promote strong, drought-tolerant plants.
Trench layering A method of propagation using long branches rooted in a manmade ditch.
Trenching Digging a shallow ditch around the border of a planting.
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Dig a trench at the edge of your line: The trench should be as deep as your plastic lawn edging PLUS 2.5 cm. For example, if you are using 4-inch deep lawn edging, the trench will be 5 inches deep on the grass side.
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Pit or Trench Composting
This is the simplest way for composting kitchen scraps. Dig a one-foot-deep hole. Chop and mix the food wastes into the soil then cover with at least 8 inches of additional soil.
Trench digger: is probably the smallest piece of trenching equipment that you are likely to hire.
The trench method utilizes transplants set into compost- or manure-enriched loam in the bottom of a 6-inch trench. As the leeks grow, soil is drawn in on the stems, care being taken not to bury them above the point where the leaves branch.
For trench composting, simply dig some holes about 6" deep, drop in your kitchen scraps, and cover with soil. Or lift up the mulch in your pathways, lay down a layer of kitchen scraps, and cover it up.
Once trench is completely dug, add a 3' layer of gravel along bottom.
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Dig a trench around the shrub's crown. The depth required depends on how far the roots penetrate the surrounding soil. Usually 1-2' is deep enough.
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Dig a trench around the perimeter of your garden bed using a flat shovel. Make the trench about 9 inches deep and 9 inches wide.
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Dig a trench a minimum of 1 m (3 ft) wide long the length of the hedge. Remove the top 25 cm (10 in) of soil; put it on boards for easy handling.
Dig out trenches to a spade's depth, known as a 'spit', and about 30cm (12in) wide.
Place the soil from the first trench on the ground in front and work backwards along the plot, turning the soil from each subsequent trench into the one in front.
Dig and trench about it, as both that and the potato love new earths. Let the rows be twenty nine inches distant from each other and it will be advantageous as the turnsole loves room.
1/ Dig a trench about 1 spade wide and the depth of one spade at one end of the plot.
2/ Put the soil dug out of the first trench into a wheel barrow.
3/ Spread about 3 inches of manure over the bottom of the trench.
Fill the trench with six inches of clean, weed-free straw -- not dirt. As potato plants emerge, add another four-to-six inches of straw. Water as needed to keep the straw evenly moist, but not soggy. Do not overwater.
When the trench is complete, amend the soil (Step 2) and plant your shrubs (Step 3). When backfilling the trench, remember that the plant should be set in the ground at its original depth, not deeper.
Just dig a trench from the center of the low area you are trying to drain, to the point that you intend to drain it to. Using a simple line level you can set up a string over top of the trench to make sure that your pipe runs downhill all the way.
First dig a trench about 8 inches deep. Make it long enough that you can space your corms about half a foot apart. That spacing might seem a bit strange to you, so placing them in a semi-circle or oval will help.
Either dig a trench for a bed planting or individual holes for individual bulbs or small clusters.
Plant the bulbs by placing them into position. (Never push or force the bulb into the soil).
Gas Powered Trenchers for Your Yard
A gas powered trencher can make fast work of digging a trench when installing an irrigation system or laying a plumbing or electrical line in your yard.
Digging small trenches and/or holes for each plug can take a good deal of time and effort.
Since plugs are really little pieces of sod, they can dry-out and go bad if exposed to heat, sunlight, and high winds.
Note: Keep the trench and pile small enough that you can easily monitor and control it (so that the fire doesn't get out of hand).
To sidedress, dig a trench around the plant about one inch deep and three to four inches away from the stem around the drip line of the leaves (see below).
Dig a trench, starting away from and working toward the base of the bush. The trench should be as long as the bush is high. The width and depth should easily accommodate the bush or bushes. Pull the soil away from the shank (i.e.
Plant your asparagus crowns in a 5" to 6" deep trench about 12" to 18" wide. If you plant more than one row, the rows should be 4 to 5 feet apart. Place the crowns with the bud side up, about 12" apart.
If you plant a tree in shallow topsoil over a compacted subsoil - a common situation in newer housing developments - the first "crack" or "path" in the soil that a tree root encounters may be your drainage field trench.
To heel them in, choose a sheltered, shady site and dig a V-shaped trench. Make the trench wide and deep enough to accommodate the plants' roots and long enough to prevent crowding.
Prepare the soil for planting rhubarb by deep trenching a hole 1 meter wide and by the same depth if possible. Fork over the subsoil and add 1kg of bone dust or meal. Mix equal parts of stable, cow or poultry manure and replace to form a mound.
Starting at one end, I dug the trench to its full depth as I moved down its length. While digging, I kept the walls sloped outward slightly from the bottom of the trench to keep them from caving in. To protect the lawn, I piled the soil on a tarp.
If not, make a shallow trench as long as you need. Keep the trench depth to about as deep as you need your seeds to be. If adding commercial fertilizer below them, of course you want your trench deeper.
With mass planting, you would dig a trench or pit, and begin to layer in your bulbs. Large bulbs like tulips and daffodils should be planted deep, while small crocus or snowdrops can be planted shallowly.
To plant snowdrops for early spring color, dig a shallow trench three to four inches deep near the front of your garden border during the fall months. If you have heavy clay soil, dig down at least six inches and add a layer of gravel for drainage.
v-shaped furrow - A planting trench made in the shape of the letter V. It is wide at the top and pointed at the bottom.
variegated - Leaves which are marked with multiple colors.
You can trench the new wire into your lawn with your shovel by running your blade as deep as it will go, lifting up on the dirt, and tucking the wire into the groove by hand.
To do this, simply insert the spade into the ground and lever to one side to make a slit trench.
If tomatoes have grown long and leggy, dig a trench and lay the tomato along the trench leaving the top three or four sets of leaves above the soil.
I set to work digging the trench in a lovely arc toward the existing pond. Just then my husband wandered out with a cup of tea, nodded in approval and asked whether I had discovered a way to make water run uphill.
In a permaculture garden, one composts in place through trenches and sheet mulches, one eats from perennial food sources rather than planting annual crops year after year, ...
A sloping narrow trench is dug from the top of the garden, across the land towards the lowest point. Porous clay or perforated plastic pipes are placed within a porous layer (ash or gravel) before the trench is refilled with soil.
recommends digging a narrow three-foot-deep trench and lining the sides with a sheet of 60-millimeter-thick plastic. Leaving an inch or two of the liner above ground will help prevent stray shoots from jumping the barrier.
Soil incorporation is also known as trench composting. Organic material are buried in holes 8-15 inchesdeep, and then covered with soil dug from the hole. Decomposition takes about a year, as limited oxygen slows the process.
Irrigation pipes are buried under ground in trenches, typically 9 to 18 inches deep.
Use a rake handle to make a trench for small seeds and the corner of a hoe blade to make a ditch for larger seeds. Cover the seeds, and firm the soil before you water.
BELOW THE GROUND BIN: Dig a 2x8 foot trench two or three feet deep into the ground below frost level. Place a six-inch layer of peat moss and shredded newspaper or cardboard on the bottom, and water until evenly moistened, but not soggy wet.
With this method, you don't need to dig trenches or mound soil into hills. Just work a trowel full of compost into a square foot of soil in a sunny, well-drained area of the garden.
Place clear plastic over the soil surface and bury the edges in a foot deep trench. The plastic can be clear construction grade plastic and vary in thickness from 1 to 6 mils.
When planting your carrot seeds dig a long trench, about one inch deep. Plant the seeds about one inch apart. Even though the seeds are tiny, avoid planting too many as you will have more thinning work to do later.
fine tree roots I have dug a trench 300mm deep around my raiced vegie garden and placed colorbond steel sheeting as barrier to prevent roots from adult gum trees taking ...
Irrigation ditches-Trenches dug into land to allow water to flow, sometimes at a great distance from its source. This provides water for crops and for humans.
Do not cut the branch off the mother plant. Dig a little trench about 2 inches deep and lower the branch into it and cover generously with soil (potting soil would be nice but is entirely optional).
Dig a 24-inch deep trench one foot or more beyond the anticipated ball size around the tree or shrub. Always angle the spade away from the center of the plant so the root ball won't break, and carefully undercut a circle around the tree.
Furrow-A shallow trench made in garden soil for planting seeds or transplants.
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Tree Roses should be uprooted and laid on their sides in a trench, covering the bush with a soil mound and mulch as mentioned with bush roses.
Both smooth-walled and corrugated piping can be used in traditional gravel sewer fields; these are buried in gravel-filled trenches of between 2 and 3 feet depending on the amount of waste deposited in the septic system.
Once my bucket of Bokashi is finished fermenting, it is the perfect addition to my compost trenches in the vegetable garden.
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Low voltage lighting systems only require twelve volts of household current, but setting up such a system is likely to require digging a trench and laying cables as well as the wires for the light fittings.
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