Firs and pines find enough to support them in barren, sandy soil.

It's unlikely that any viruses could live so long in such barren soil.

The barren soil had suddenly produced all manner of plant life, which was growing at a phenomenal rate.

The barren, rocky soil would do nothing to slow runoff.

Once the land round it was worked, but no one these days would break his back over soil so rocky and barren.

And only a few yards away, on otherwise barren soil, there blooms one perfect rose.

When soaked with water, the barren soil readily falls in an avalanche.

Hold barren soil in place with burlap when planting ground cover on a slope.

The Dahlaks are true desert islands, with almost barren soil.

There was no agriculture at all, nor any attempt to grow anything in that barren soil.