grow thick

The land is high and dry, the ground rocky and inhospitable — not like the rainy coastal Northwest, where trees grow thick and fast.

As fields grow thick with woody stalks, the cows simply avoid eating them and the regenerative cycle breaks down.

Second, decades of fire suppression have allowed forests and wildlands to grow thick with vegetation, priming them to burn hot and fast.

Mink farmers must pump them up with vaccinations to keep them alive for the handful of months it takes for them to grow thick fur.

In neighborhoods where weeds grow thick among the potholes of long-neglected streets, it seems a distant prospect.