And now, for the first time in centuries, grapevines are taking root in soil that was once considered infertile.
Two to three inches of mulch spread around plants, trees and shrubs will slow water evaporation from the soil, help cool root systems and inhibit weeds.
Thanks to the Federal Reserve and other destructive creations of government, the process of creative destruction rarely takes root in American soil anymore.
My immobility was complete, as if tendrils of myself had burrowed down and sought root in the soil of Japan, rendering me brainless vegetation.
The trick is to achieve a critical mass of developers under your roof, so even if games companies go under, new ones will arise and take root in your soil.
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In this process a piece of tissue is cut from a healthy plant and grown in a sterile environment into several plantlets that root in pasteurized soil before being transferred to the field.
Celeriac is a celery variety refined over time to produce an increasingly large, solid, globular root just below the soil surface.
Not only do their root systems help stabilize soil and inhibit weeds, but they also offer movement, texture and year-round interest even when the blooms have long disappeared.
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But the real work of conservatives now is not at that superficial, topsoil level, it is in the deeper soil of policy and the tap root of values where conservatives need to toil now.
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Hope Group's root had sprouted in the stony soil of Xinjin, near the company's current headquarters on the outskirts of Chengdu.
Women gather beans and other crops planted along the banks, leach the cyanide compounds out of manioc, a root that grows well in the poor soil, and then roast it to make a crunchy flour eaten throughout Brazil.
First, let us pledge ourselves at tomorrow's European Summit, individually as nations and collectively as the EU, to do all we can to detect, root out and defeat the terrorists on our soil.
The region's hard-packed clay soil welcomes a unique mix of plants with deep-penetrating root systems.
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These included soil microbes, which govern the nutrient cycling reactions in soils, and mycorrhizae, root-colonising fungi which help plants to absorb nutrients.
In an area of a few tens of square kilometres around this tower, the researchers will place further sensors in the soil and in local streams, to measure temperature, carbon-dioxide and nutrient levels, along with rates of root growth and the activities of microbes.
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