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One dug well was also completed at Orghuch village whose residents were badly suffering from shortage of drinking water.

In experiments he found that during spring and early summer, many vegetables on the dug beds, especially radish, onions and spinach, started growing more slowly, and that in the undug beds the leaves of spinach and lettuce were thicker and glossier, the radish roots were shinier and the onions had a deeper colour.

One of the diggers - known only as Dweeb - said: "It's the best tip I've ever dug.

He said that the number of oil wells, dug and rehabilitated in Basra, Missan, Baghdad and Kirkuk Provinces had reached 53 wells, including 39 dug and 14 rehabilitated.

If you are preparing the bed to plant trees, shrubs or perennials, you can just leave it when you've dug it over.

However, the beds are likely to have been dug deeply when they were first created.

They dug into the hillside and uncovered a few tail vertebrae and fragments of a tail spike of a stegosaur.

The small shelf that we've dug into the hillside can barely accommodate all the dig-team members who want to get in on the action.

First I dug a hole three feet long, three feet wide and three feet deep, laughing with morbid humor at the thought that Dad had cleverly gotten me to dig my own grave.

I learned to dig at my father's knee during the dark days of World War Two, when almost every household dug for victory, aiming to produce sufficient vegetables to last the winter.

Call him a singer if you want; Dug "Sergeant Skate" Moore screams and smashes himself with the microphone.

The second spit is then dug over and manure put at the bottom to encourage roots to come down, initially to the first layer of manure and then deep into the subsoil in the case of shrubs and trees.

In an effort to quantify the benefits of this method on corn production in our own backyard garden, we planted corn in two newly dug, adjacent beds of the same size.