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Care2 - healthy plant terms Category: Agriculture and Industry > Gardening terms Date & country: 22/06/2018, USA Words: 43

Annual
A plant that completes its full life cycle—blooms, produces seed and dies—in one year.

Bare root
Dormant plants that have been removed from the ground, along with their soil, and preserved until they can be planted at a later time.

Beneficial insect
An insect that benefits gardens by eating or laying eggs in other insects which helps to control pest populations from damaging or eating plants.

Biennial
A plant that completes its full life cycle in two growing seasons. The plant produces leaves in the first season and flowers in the second season.

Bolting
A term used to describe a plant that has produced seeds prematurely.

Companion planting
The practice of planting two plants near each other to produce mutual benefits.

Compost
A mixture of decaying, organic materials (such as vegetable scraps) used as a soil conditioner, mulch or fertilizer.

Cold frame
An unheated structure that is used to protect plants from frost.

Crop rotation
The practice of planting a specific crop in an area that is different from the previous year.

Cutting
A plant propagation method where a small part of the plant is clipped and dipped into a rooting solution and then placed in water to eventually grow roots for a brand new plant.

Dead heading
The practice of pinching or snipping off flowers that have bloomed and died.

Deciduous
A plant that loses its leaves every fall or winter.

Direct sowing
Germinating seeds directly into the ground or planting site.

Dormancy
The period in which plants exhibit little to no growth, usually in winter. Also known as the resting period.

Evergreen
A plant that retains its leaves throughout the growing season.

Everblooming
Flowers that produce a continuous supply of blossoms throughout a season.

Fertilizer
An organic or synthetic material that is added to the soil and used to feed nutrients to plants.

Full sun
Used to describe plants that require a minimum of six hours of direct sunlight each day.

Germination
The beginning of growth in seeds.

Hardiness zone
The geographic temperature zone that is used to categorize areas that plants can thrive.

Heirloom
A plant variety that has remain unmodified for a period of 50 years or more.

Humus
The organic component of soil that is formed by the decomposition of leaves and other decaying plant material.

Hybrid
When two different plants are crossbred to create distinct characteristics.

Invasive
Plants that are non-native to an ecosystem or whose introduction is likely to cause harm.

Loam
Rich soil that consists of 25 percent clay, 50 percent silt and less than 50 percent sand.

Micro-herd
A term that organic gardeners use for the beneficial microbes that digest and produce compost.

Mulch
Material such as bark, decaying leaves or compost that is spread around or over a plant to insulate or enrich the soil. Also helps to cool the soil and prevent erosion, evaporation and weeds.

Native plants
Plants that are indigenous to a given geographic area.

Open pollination
Seeds that develop as a result of naturally occurring pollination methods such as wind, insect or soil movement.

Ornamental
Plants grown solely for the way they look.

Perennial
Plants that live for multiple growing seasons.

Pollination
The process of transferring pollen from a flower’s stamen to the pistil which results in the forming of a seed.

Pruning
The act of removing dead, diseased or damaged leaves or branches of a plant, bush or tree.

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Sand
The largest particles of minerals that make up soil.

Silt
Medium-size pieces of minerals that make up soil that are smaller than sand and larger than clay.

Soil texture
The proportion of clay to silt to sand in the soil.

Staking
Using a stick, pole, trellis or other object to support a plant during its growing cycle.

Thinning
Removing or reducing plants or seedlings in order to allow better air circulation and light exposure.

Transplant
Removing plants, bushes or trees from one location and replanting them in another location.

Vermiculite
A light, spongy mineral that has been heated to cause it to expand so that it can hold water and air.

Veganic Gardening
The method of growing plants and crops without the use of animal-sourced products such as fertilizers.

Waterlogged
Soil that has been saturated with water.