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Gardening with Confidence - gardening advice Category: Agriculture and Industry > Gardening terms Date & country: 23/06/2018, USA Words: 472

Suckers
Suckers, often called watersprouts, shoots, or canes, is growth from the roots of trees, some shrubs, roses, as well as from rootstock of grafted trees or roses.

Sugar
Food product of plant. Carbohydrates that contain hydrocarbon chain.

Sun Requirements
Sun Requirements.

Sunscald
Damage to plant tissue, especially bark or fruit, caused by exposure to excessive sunlight.

Subtend
Subtend (of a bract) extend under (a flower) so as to support or enfold it.

Succulent
A type of plant with thick, fleshy leaves, stems, or tubers.

Synthesis
Production of a substance, such as chlorophyll, by uniting light energy and elements or chemical compounds.

Synthetic Fertilizer
Phosphoric acid and potash are the most common phosphorus and potassium ingredients in synthetic fertilizers. Synthetic fertilizers are by definition not natural. They are specifically designed to feed a plant a certain amount of specific nutrients.

Tap Root
The main or primary root that grows from the seed; lateral roots will branch off the tap root.

Terminal Bud
Bud at the growing end of the main stem.

Terrestrial
Up-land, non-aquatic habitat.

Texture
Texture refers to the overall visual texture of the plant—the size and shape of the plant, and its foliage.

Tendril
Designing with vines.

Tepid
Warm 70 to 80 degrees F (21 to 27 degrees C); always use tepid water around plants to facilitate chemical processes and ease shock.

Tenalach
Used to describe a relationship one has with the land, air, and water. A deep connection that allows one to literally hear the Earth sing.

Thatch
Lawn thatch is the layer of dead turfgrass tissue between the green vegetation and the soil surface that must be removed (a process known as “dethatching”) to maintain lawn health. It consists of stems, leaves, stolons, rhizomes and roots.

Thin
Cull or weed out very slow growing seedlings.

Thug
A name give to plants that grow vigorously and choke out less aggressive nearby plants.

Tissue Culture
The growth in an artificial medium of cells derived from living tissue.

Till
Tilling is simply turning over and breaking up the soil. Exactly how deep you till and how fine you break up the soil depends on your reason for tilling.

Top-dress
To spread manure or fertilizer on the surface of (land) without working it into the soil. I top-dress my garden beds every year with fresh leaf mold.

Topiary
The art or practice of clipping shrubs or trees into ornamental shapes.

Topsoil
The fertile, upper part of the soil.

Treated Seed
In agriculture and horticulture, a chemical seed treatment, typically antimicrobial or fungidal, with which seeds are treated prior to planting.

Trellis
Frame or netting (lattice) that trains or supports plants.

Triecious
Of or pertaining to a species having male, female, and hermaphrodite flowers on different plants.

Tropical
The tropics are warm places without freezes. Plants that thrive in hot humid climates.

Trailing
To hang down loosely from something. Plants that trail soften edges and spread down or out.

Transpire
Give off water vapor and by products via stomata and carbon dioxide intake at the leaves.

Tuberous Roots
Tuberous roots are the fifth and final type of bulb. Most often, tuberous roots are not thought of as bulbs at all (at least, not by me), but they are. Their parts below the ground are unmistakable. Unlike other bulb types, those tuberous roots have puffy root-like structures that look as though someone pumped them up like a balloon, but they are really adapted stems—not a true root. Instead, the actual root grows from the sides and the tip of the tuberous root. Familiar tuberous root plants include dahlias and daylilies.

Umbel
The flowering part of a plant made up of a cluster of flowers, as with lantana.

Undercut
Remove the final stump by cutting close to the trunk, but not flush with it. Make an angled cut away from the tree, just beyond the crease in the bark where the branch meets the trunk.

Understock
The rooted plant that receives the scion.

Upright
Vertical or erect.

Up-pot
To up-put mean to repot a plant when it’s outgrown its pot to a larger one. Increase the size of the pot and freshen the old potting soil with new soil. This gives the roots more room to grow.

Vascular System
The vessels and tissue that carry or circulate sap through the plant.

Variegated
Having or consisting of leaves that are edged or patterned in a second color, especially white as well as green.

Variety
Strain, phenotype.

Vegetative
Of, relating to, or denoting reproduction or propagation achieved by asexual means, either naturally (budding, rhizomes, runners, bulbs, etc.) or artificially (grafting, layering, or taking cuttings).

Vertical
Up and down perpendicular to the horizontal.

Vernalization
Vernalization is the subjection of seeds or seedlings to cold temperatures in order to hasten plant development and flowering. The seeds and buds of many plants require cold in order to break dormancy.

Ventilation
Circulation of fresh air, fundamental to a healthy indoor garden, an exhaust fan creates excellent ventilation.

Vermiculture
Tthe cultivation of annelid worms (as earthworms or bloodworms) especially for use in composting.

Vent
Opening such as a window or door that allows the circulation of fresh air.

Viticulture
The cultivation of grapes.

Vole
A vole is a vegetarian rodent. A vole will gnaw at the base of a tree or shrub. A vole may also damage flower bulbs and potatoes in the garden; but mainly, the vole will eat the stems and blades of lawn grass.

Water-wise
Water-wise.

Warm-season grasses
Warm-season grasses are those grasses actively growing when its warm, and its green in the summer and the color of hay in the winter. Common warm-season grass include Zoysia, Centipede, and Bermuda. Warm-season grass tend to flourish during the warmer summer months, and therefore require fertilizing shortly after green-up in the spring and again in the late summer months.

Water Soluble
Able to be dissolved in water.

Water-in
To water-in means using a liquid vitamin, plant food, or some other additive with water so it can be readily absorbed by the soil.

Waterspouts
Watersprouts are the growth resulting from buds on the surface of old wood of a plant. The growth is very thin relative to the parent branch and the joint between the sprout and branch is weak. Like a sucker, the sprout wood is juvenile and fast-growing, fed on ample water and nutrients from the large parent wood.

Warm-season crops
Warm-season veggies require both warm soil and high temperatures (with a little cooling at night) to grow steadily and produce crops. They include traditional summer crops such as snap beans, corn, cucumbers, melons, peppers, tomatoes, and squash.

Weeping
Used in names of tree and shrub varieties with drooping branches. As example, a weeping cherry.

Wetting Agent
Compourd that reduces the droplet size and lowers the surface tension of the water, making it wetter.

Weavers
The stems used at the weave in the wattle craft.

Weed
A wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants.

Whirled
Sometimes more than two leaves arise from the same location (node) on a twig, the leaves may radiate from the twig like the spokes on wheel.

Withy
A tough flexible branch of an osier or other willow, used for tying, binding, or basketry.

Winter Interest
Gardening for winter interest is to add color, exfoliating bark, berries, and flowers that are interesting during the winter months. Winter Protection

Wildcrafting
The gathering herbs, plants, fungi from the wild.

Wildlife Habitat
Wildlife Habitats.

Wilt
Wilting refers to the loss of rigidity of non-woody parts of plants. This occurs when the rate of loss of water from the plant is greater than the absorption of water in the plant.

Wick
Part of a passive hydroponic system using a wick suspended in the nutrients solution, the nutrients pass up the wick and are absorbed by the medium and roots.

Woody
Having stems and branches that are made of wood.

Wound
An injury to living tissue caused by a cut, blow, or other impact, typically one in which the skin is cut or broken

Xericscaping
Xericaping is a type of garden or using a particular plant that tolerates a low moisture growing environment. Water-wise refers to the same concept or type of plant.

Xylem
A compound tissue in vascular plants that helps provide support and that conducts water and nutrients upward from the roots, consisting of tracheids, vessels, parenchyma cells, and woody fibers

Yellowing
There are many reasons to cause yellow leaves on plants

B & B or Balled and Burlapped
Digging a round root ball and held intact by a large piece of burlap. This is then held in place with wire or twine. Balled-and-burlapped trees and shrubs are field-grown nursery plants dug out of the ground with a ball of soil around the roots; the soil has been wrapped with burlap.

F1 hybrid
A F1 hybrid is when two pure lines are crossed, the plant resulting from their seeds is an F1 hybrid.

Hügelkultur
Hügelkultur (also spelled hüegelkultur) roughly translated from German as hill culture. Hügelkultur is the practice of composting large woody material to create a raised garden bed. It is a way of dealing with excess amounts of woody garden wastes, for example prunings, hedge clippings, brassica stems, or brushwood, and logs.

N-P-K
This is expressed with three numbers (10-10-10 for example) on bags of fertilizer and refers to the nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium ratio in the mix. N, nitrogen; P, phosphorus; K, potassium.