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Live to fight another day (This saying comes from an English proverbial rhyme, "He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day") Loose lips sink ships; Look before you leap; Love is blind – The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, Scene 1 (1591) Love of money is the root of all evil [16] Love makes the world go around
During the growing season daily mowing is required. For faster speeds and professional tournaments greens may be cut twice a day or even double cut (two cuts in two directions, one immediately following the other). Verticutting to remove excessive thatch, force the grass blades to stand upright, thin out excessive growth and speed up greens.
"The grass roots can suffocate due to a lack of oxygen in overly wet soil, weakening the lawn," says McCausland. "Standing water can compact the soil, reducing drainage and harming root ...
Water is delivered from below, absorbed by upwards, and the excess collected for recycling. Typically, a solution of water and nutrients floods a container or flows through a trough for a short period of time, 10–20 minutes, and is then pumped back into a holding tank for reuse. Sub-irrigation in greenhouses requires fairly sophisticated ...
Electric lawn mower in grass-cycling mode. Grasscycling is a method of handling grass clippings by leaving them to decompose on the lawn when mowing.The term combines "grass" and "recycling", and had come into use by at least 1990, [1] as part of the push to reduce the huge quantities of clippings going into landfills, up to half of some cities' summertime waste flow, [2] as 1,000 square feet ...
Cover of the first volume of the print edition (2010) of Green's Dictionary of Slang. Green's Dictionary of Slang (GDoS) is a multivolume dictionary defining and giving the history of English slang from around the Early Modern English period to the present day written by Jonathon Green.
(pl.) aboiteaux A sluice or conduit built beneath a coastal dike, with a hinged gate or a one-way valve that closes during high tide, preventing salt water from flowing into the sluice and flooding the land behind the dike, but remains open during low tide, allowing fresh water precipitation and irrigation runoff to drain from the land into the sea; or a method of land reclamation which relies ...
A brief note on the phenomenon by Thomas Lambe Phipson [] (1833–1908) appeared in The Chemical News on 17 April 1891 [2] and was re-published in its entirety, a month later, in The Scientific American, [3] in which he wrote, "This subject, with which I was occupied more than twenty-five years ago, appears from a paragraph in the last number of the Chemical News [2] to have recently attracted ...