earth up

English

Verb

earth up (third-person singular simple present earths up, present participle earthing up, simple past and past participle earthed up)

1. (horticulture, transitive) To cover the stem or leaves of plants with soil, as to encourage root growth or protect from cold.

   Earth up a potato crop several times during the season to encourage more tubers to grow.

Translations

cover with soil

• Catalan: calçar (ca)
• Dutch: aanaarden (nl)
• Esperanto: ĵosi
• German: anhäufeln
• Maori: ahuahu, whakaeke, kānoti (to cover over the embers of a fire), tokitoki
• Quechua: taqtay
• Spanish: acollar (es)
• Swedish: kupa (sv)

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