Word Finder - hotbeds

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A low bed of earth covered with glass, and heated with rotting manure, used for the germination of seeds and the growth of tender plants, like a miniature hothouse.

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(by extension) An environment that is ideal for the growth or development of something, especially of something undesirable.

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• seedbed

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An iron platform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool.

Prepare manure for making up hotbeds for early cucumbers and melons, where pits heated with hot water are not in use; also for Ashleaf potatoes.

Sow also in heat mustard and cress for salads, onions for salads; tomatoes, celery to be pricked out for an early crop; and Early Horn carrot and kidney-beans on slight hotbeds.

These leaders skilfully seized upon every breach of tradition to inflame popular passion, attacking especially the medical work as a pretext for mutilation, the schools as hotbeds of vice, and the orphanages as furnishing material for witchcraft.

Thus with the genial warmth and moisture of the hotbeds, all crops grow rapidly, but the radishes mature first, then the lettuces are taken off in due course, thus leaving the beds to finish up with the carrots by themselves.

This is necessary not only to make up the required hotbeds in the first place, but also to fill in the pathways between the frames, wherever it is considered advisable to maintain the heat within the frames at a certain point.

The routine of cultivation in hotbeds and pits may be continued.

Maintain the heat in hotbeds and pits by means of fresh dung linings.

Keep up the requisite degree of heat in hotbeds and pits.

Sow Early Horn carrot; also kidney beans and radishes, on hotbeds.

The same degree of attention to hotbeds and pits will be necessary as in the last month.

But little can be done in the northern states except to prepare manure, and get sashes, tools, &c., in working order; but in sections of the country where there is little or no frost the hardier kinds of seeds and plants may be sown and planted, such as asparagus, cabbage, cauliflower, carrot, leek, lettuce, onion, parsnip, peas, spinach, turnip, &c. In any section where these seeds can be sown in open ground, it is an indication that hotbeds may be started for the sowing of such tender vegetables as tomatoes, egg and pepper plants, &c.; though, unless in the extreme southern states, hotbeds should not be started before the beginning or middle of February.

Hotbeds must now be all started.

Unless one has space under glass, or in hotbeds, in which the plants may be transplanted before they are set in the open ground, it is well not to start the seeds too early, inasmuch as the plants are likely to become too large or to be pot-bound, or to become drawn.

Many of his paternal ventures led to little more than waste of money, or the creation of hotbeds of jobbery.

This law the congregations, hotbeds of reactionary tendencies, had ignored; and on the i9th of July 1901, the queen-regent issued a decree, countersigned by Sagasta, for enforcing its provisions.

Plant melons and cucumbers on the hotbeds prepared for vegetables in February, and now free.

What's more, many online communities popular with tweens and teens are hotbeds of sexual innuendo, propositions, and suggestive photos.

Many paranormal investigators feel that these locations, and other former insane asylums like Broughton Hospital, are hotbeds of paranormal activity.