Cloddy

David HartThe Vows Moment Wobbles the SonnetI've walked the valley path in sticky rainto see the person I met in a caff by luck lost to the world out on a cloddy trackfull of ache, done-for-almost, in foul pain –Enough, I love you. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Already, have I not shown you, my reader, that in previous times, inhabiting various cloddy aggregates of matter, I have been Count ❋ Unknown (2010)

I am the unquenched spark ever flashing and astonishing the face of time, ever working my will and wreaking my passion on the cloddy aggregates of matter, called bodies, which I have transiently inhabited. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Raised in a fashion prison run by her thrift-store parental wardens (Joan Cusack and John Goodman), the adult Rebecca (the redhead Isla Fisher) long ago unshackled her cloddy shoes and jumped into the pool of fashion excess. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My new favorite is brown Basmati rice, which is more of a whole grain but not so terribly chewy or cloddy. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Some weeks earlier they had prepared the garden carefully, plowing and sweetening the dirt with fireplace ashes and manure from the barn and then harrowing the cloddy ground, Ruby driving the horse while Ada rode the drag to add weight. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)

By tillage, create a rough, cloddy surface which lengthens the time necessary for the rain to break down the clods and seal the surface. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Purposes of Tillage Operations: a. To produce a rough, cloddy surface that will increase moisture absorption and reduce runoff, as well as erosion from wind and water. ❋ Unknown (1996)

The stony soils and the coarse, cloddy seedbed preparation with the fuador render the use of further animal-drawn implements more difficult, especially for seeding. ❋ Unknown (1991)

This type of rough seedbed is actually very advantageous in terms of weed control since the cloddy surface discourages their growth. ❋ Unknown (1981)

Some models have special soil openers that permit satisfactory operation in hard or cloddy soil. ❋ Unknown (1981)

Small seeds require shallower planting than larger ones, and cloddy soils do not allow this type of precision if mechanical planters are used. ❋ Unknown (1981)

· Rough (cloddy) seedbeds discourage weed growth and reduce erosion caused by rain or wind; they also increase water retention by cutting down water runoff. ❋ Unknown (1981)

= Heavy soils =, soils that are hard to work; stiff, cloddy soils. ❋ Charles Landon Goodrich (N/A)

Light porous soils may be rolled at any time, but clay soils can be rolled to advantage only when they are stiff and cloddy. ❋ Charles Landon Goodrich (N/A)

As they grow up, earth their stems; that is, put the earth up against them, but not too much at a time, and always when the plants are dry; and let the earth put up be finely broken, and not at all cloddy. ❋ Fearing Burr (N/A)

Buckwheat may be made profitable upon a piece of rough or newly cleared ground: No other crop is so effective in mellowing rough, cloddy land. ❋ Various (N/A)

If the ground has been once plowed in the early spring, let it be plowed again only a few days before planting time, and if at all rough, or cloddy, have it harrowed until in fine tilth. ❋ B. W. Jones (N/A)

If the soil is left lumpy and cloddy then capillary water cannot rise readily from below to take the place of that which is lost by evaporation. ❋ Charles Landon Goodrich (N/A)