Earthing in a Sentence
  • The earth should be drawn up to celery with a hoe preparatory to earthing up with a spade.
  • Plant out kales and broccoli for late crops; plant celery (earthing up the advancing crops as required), endive for succession, and a few coleworts.
  • Propagate by slips, or by earthing up the old stems, the various pot-herbs.
  • Continue hoeing and earthing up the several crops.
  • The earthing up of celery this month is not to be recommended, unless a little very early supply is wanted.
  • Earthing up therefore prevents these injuries, but where practised to an immoderate extent it materially reduces the produce of tubers.
  • The labour entailed in repeated earthing up is also considered a serious objection to its general adoption.