impoverished soil
exhausted soil

Flower planting time is also an opportunity to improve the impoverished soil.

However, not all gardens are, or should be, amended in this manner, since many plants prefer an impoverished soil.

Some agricultural practices have led to organically and chemically impoverished soils.

Because impoverished soil is usually so compacted that no air or water can penetrate, turn under some perlite or sand as well.

Over time, the team maintains, sunflowers and mustard seed can restore the High Line's impoverished soil to full life-bearing capability.

It grows well in impoverished soil under bracken, perhaps because it flowers early in the year before the fronds develop fully.

The chill wind, the twisted, useless little trees, and the impoverished soil I trod were hostile, foreign things scarcely better than Krait and possibly worse.

Here grains, pepper and rubber and many vegetable crops are interspersed with fishponds and livestock grazing, enabling the people to make permanent use of impoverished soils.

First, those who live in places such as Maputaland, South Africa are exposed to heavily impoverished soils which result in a number of diseases caused by mineral imbalances.

In fact, if not for the impoverished soil, the poisons in the air and water, and the absurdities of clock and calendar, this place would be damned close to paradise.

These roots exude chemicals that enhance mineral solubility, greatly increasing the availability and uptake of nutrients in impoverished soils such as the phosphorus-deficient native soils of Australia.

Buckwheat was introduced as a crop suitable to impoverished soils and buckwheat pancakes were known in other regions where this crop was cultivated, such as Limousin or Auvergne.

This community is typically associated with arable crops on impoverished soils and is now very scarce, both because suitable soils have a localised distribution and because intensive cereal agriculture is not conducive to its development.

One of Mr. Chaskey's greatest satisfactions has been to revive fields long drained of nutrients by constant rotations of potatoes and corn, and by growing cover crops like oats, buckwheat, clover and bell beans, which add organic matter and nitrogen to impoverished soil.