hilling
Piling earth upward
Hilling is the gardening practice of mounding soil around the base of plants, typically done with potatoes, corn, and other crops that benefit from having their stems or roots buried deeper.
The technique encourages additional root development, protects tubers from sunlight exposure, improves drainage, and provides structural support for taller plants.
I spent the afternoon hilling the potato rows.
Narrow raised strip
- furrowNarrow trench in earth
- moundHeaped earth formation
- tuberUnderground nutrient reservoir
- soilGround matter for planting
cultivation · row · seedbed · sprout · harvest · yield · eyes · planting
Tool for turning soil
- tractorAgricultural pulling vehicle
- tillageSoil preparation for planting
- furrowNarrow trench in earth
- ridgeNarrow raised strip
soil amendment · irrigation · fertilizer · sow · transplanting · hoeing · weeding · crop rotation
Load carrier or tumulus
- tumulusAncient burial mound
- moundHeaped earth formation
- cairnMemorial stone pile
- graveSerious and worrying
tomb · earthwork · burial mound · sepulcher · ancient · archaeology · excavation · monument
ridge
Narrow raised strip
soil · cultivation · row · seedbed · sprout · harvest · yield · eyes · planting · mulch
plow
Tool for turning soil
ridge · soil amendment · irrigation · fertilizer · sow · transplanting · hoeing · weeding · crop rotation · mulching
barrow
Load carrier or tumulus
grave · tomb · earthwork · burial mound · sepulcher · ancient · archaeology · excavation · monument · chamber
- crop farmingharvesting, planting, tractors, fertilizing, fertilizer
- Potato Farmingseed potatoes, planting, harvesting, tubers, eyes
- farmingfarm, farms, farmer, farmers, crop
- potatoesrusset, fingerling, red potato, white potato, purple potato
- root vegetablescarrot, potato, beet, radish, turnip
- fieldworkfieldwork, field work, field journal, field guide, field study
hillingleveling
Making flat or equal
flattening · excavating · grading · digging out · furrowing
hillingtilling
Cultivating soil for crops
weeding · hoeing · cultivating · mulching
hillingexposing
Making something known
uncovering · unearthing · laying bare · lifting · weeding
hill, hills, uphill, hilly, downhill, hillside, hilltop, hillock, anthill