haulms

Brother Winfrid, a hefty, blue-eyed young giant, was busy digging in the roots to feed the soil, while the haulms, cropped with sickles, lay piled at the edge of the field, drying for fodder and bedding.

The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

Brother Winfrid, a hefty, blue-eyed young giant, was busy digging in the roots to feed the soil, while the haulms, cropped with sickles, lay piled at the edge of the field, drying for fodder and bedding.

The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

In the seed plots further precautions are taken by applying systemic insecticides, rogueing infected plants, and removing haulms before the aphid population reaches a certain critical level.

Chapter 25 1987

The use of sun-dried chips of the root tubers, dried haulms, leaves and seed cakes, mixed with tapioca chips and pelletised, has been proposed for animal feed.

Chapter 35 1987

Beyond the fish ponds, in the two pease fields that ran down the slope to the Meole Brook, the western boundary of the enclave, the haulms had long since been cut close and dried for stable bedding, and the roots ploughed back into the soil, but there would be a heavy and dirty job there spreading much of the ripened and tempered manure from the stable yard and the byres.

The Raven In The Foregate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

He went down to the Meole Brook, down the bleached slopes of the pease-fields, from which the haulms had long since been sickled and taken in for stable-bedding, leaving the white stubble to be ploughed into the ground for the next year's crop.

An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

He went down to the Meole Brook, down the bleached slopes of the pease-fields, from which the haulms had long since been sickled and taken in for stable-bedding, leaving the white stubble to be ploughed into the ground for the next year's crop.

An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

The face that was presented to him looked placid enough, the pale slope stripped of its harvest, the stack of haulms where Godith and he had hidden boat and treasure barely nineteen hours ago, the russet wall of the enclosed garden beyond, the steep roof of a barn.

One Corpse Too Many Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1979

On the abbey bank he set off instinctively round the edge of the low stubble of pease haulms, to avoid any rustle among the dry roots soon to be dug in.

One Corpse Too Many Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1979

But when he drew opposite the pease-fields he reined in, and sat gazing across the brook long and steadily, and his eyes homed in upon the loose stack of haulms, and lingered.

One Corpse Too Many Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1979