Once the soil is damaged, it can take years for microbial action to re-establish the structure of small clumps that gardeners refer to as good tilth.
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All cover crops improve the tilth, or structure, of the soil, reduce erosion and mineral leaching, and improve the soil's water holding ability.
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Sown anytime before freezing weather, a cover crop _ usually rye grain or oats _ protects the soil from rain and wind, conserves nutrients and improves tilth.
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In the foregoing verse the word harth ( tilth ) indicates that only vaginal sex is permissible in Islam, because it is from this place children are produced.
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They are plants traditionally grown to prevent soil erosion, conserve nutrients and improve tilth, but they also present exciting alternatives to weeding, hauling mulch, even fertilizing.
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In the early 1970s, the Northwest Tilth Association promoted alternative modes of production and consumption of food, laying the foundation for an organic food economy in the Pacific Northwest region.
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Tractors were working the earth into a dustlike tilth, and in the ranch yards rose great mounds of seed potatoes, which were being loaded into semis bound for Idaho and planting.
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The beetles make the dung unavailable to breeding pests by quickly rolling and burying it in the soil, with the added effect of improving soil fertility, tilth, and nutrient cycling.
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This combination of ease in tillage, good moisture and air handling capabilities, and good structure for planting and germination, are definitive of the phrase " good tilth ".
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You can then dig this leaf mold into the garden like peat mulch to improve the tilth of your soil, or layer it on top as free mulch that will retain moisture next summer.
