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Definition of Seedbeds
1. seedbed [n] - See also: seedbed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seedbeds
Literary usage of Seedbeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seeding and Planting: A Manual for the Guidance of Forestry Students by James William Toumey (1916)
"Curbing the seedbeds. — A curb of wood or stone is often placed around the ...
Coniferous seedbeds arc curbed the first year in many nurseries in the United ..."
2. Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening by Robert Morris Copeland (1859)
"Renew seedbeds in the nursery, and clean up the rows of young trees. Plough through
the rows, and tie up to stakes all that are bent by snow and wind. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Session on Tropical Forestry for People of the Pacific edited by C. Eugene Conrad, Leonard A. Newell (1994)
"However, we found that mineral soil seedbeds with natural regeneration had a
certain characteristic that helped us in our search. The banks of cattle tracks ..."
4. Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations: 1994 National Proceedings by Thomas D. Landis (1996)
"19 77 Study A stud> to test the effects of undercutting, lateral root pruning
and top clipping was installed in loblolly pine seedbeds at the New Kent ..."
5. Improving Planting Stock Quality: The Humboldt Experience by James L. Jenkinson (1995)
"To prevent plow pans, the fields were cultivated and seedbeds were ... seedbeds for
our first test of early sowing were shaped in March, 1979 (table 75). ..."
6. Direct Seeding: Research Strategies and Opportunities by Sushil Pandey (2002)
"Farmers set aside a small area of their main fields to make the seedbeds.
Because of a lack of tertiary and field channels, and with field-to-field ..."
7. Women in Rice Farming: Proceedings of a Conference on Women in Rice Farming by International Rice Research Institute (1985)
"Finally, the extension services are trying to encourage Diola women in the
Casamance to make their seedbeds in the rice fields where cattle roam ..."
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