0 an area of ground prepared for growing plants from seeds: --
The discussions will serve as a seedbed for ideas.
They perceive politics as the seedbed of corruption.
Prepare the seedbed thoroughly first, being sure to eliminate all weeds.
Rice, wheat, cotton, vegetable, and other crop seedlings are sometimes raised in special seedbeds and then transplanted to fields.
If the supply of manure or artificial fertilizer is limited, only the seedbeds are fertilized.
In the more advanced areas, the seedlings are raised in protected seedbeds and transplanted later.
Crops were seeded into a prepared seedbed, which had been cultivated within a few days of seeding.
A false seedbed was established prior to sowing on both locations.
The early chapters deal with hieroglyphic and cuneiform systems - the "seedbed from which the alphabet sprang" (p. 57).
Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers broadcast at 25 and 50 kg ha71 respectively were incorporated into the seedbed before dibbling the seed.
By bringing together different cultures in widely different settings, the empire served as a seedbed from which a multifaceted range of identities could grow.
