Possible Clues:

• Cultivation site used by pickpocket?
• "I'll put a girdle, round about the earth" to produce herb
• Life in it will cease when the poor old earth is dead
• There's a hole in the bottom of this river vessel
• Leading soldiers bolt back with piece of earthenware
• There are 24 down in there
• Something grows in this grass behind loud cow
• Grow something in this grass below the river
• Filled initially working trowel around palmetto ends?
• The kind of men who spoke Oddle Poddle on 1950s TV