marling
/ˈmɑrlɪŋ/
noun
- A type of clay or earthy material used as fertilizer to improve soil.
- The farmer spread marling over the field to enrich the soil.
- Marling is often mixed with sand to improve drainage in heavy clay soils.
- Gardeners sometimes use marling to add minerals to their vegetable beds.
verb
- To apply marl (a clay-like soil) to land as fertilizer.
- Before modern fertilizers, farmers would marling their land every few years.
- They spent the weekend marling the garden to prepare it for planting.
- The old practice of marling fields helped restore nutrients to the exhausted farmland.