leaf-mold

The soil looks hot and dry, but will be watered and covered in a leaf-mold mulch to maintain moisture required for germination.

Groundwork: Carrot time 2010

At one point he drops to his knees and creeps through frosty leaf-mold toward a peregrine that has just killed a woodcock.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Seeing this woodland snipe, a piece of airborne leaf-mold, flying from the sea toward the security of some wet muddy spot made me want to understand its past.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

The cabin was a shambles, the matting and the quilts muddy and stained with leaf-mold and blood, rags and buckets competing for hearth-space with the rice-pot.

2005 Cherryh, C. J. 2005

The branches still held up roofs of frozen snow, trailing long icicles where the noon sun had had room to penetrate, and the ground underfoot, deep in leaf-mold and needles, was easy riding.

The Virgin In The Ice Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1982

In the rich leaf-mold the plants grew lustily, covering the forest floor for some distance with their spreading green umbrellas.

Followers of the Trail Zoe Meyer

These we gathered carefully together, against the time of meeting Lyn, and then -- for time pressed, and a dead man, though he may be your friend and his passing a sorrow, is out of the game forever -- we dragged him from beneath the dead horse, wrapped him in the canvas pack-cover, and buried him in the soft leaf-mold where he lay, as we had buried his lifetime partner early in the morning.

Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

Walking on soft leaf-mold he approached within twenty feet of her, unheard.

The Hidden Places Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

The hand he held against his breast was dabbled and streaked with the blood that oozed from beneath the pressing fingers; the leaf-mold under him was saturated with it.

Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

There was a soft footfall on the leaf-mold, and before her stood Jeanne Lacombie.

The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921