Glossary of Terms
GARDENING WORDS YOU SHOULD KNOW
Gardeners have a vocabulary all their own. Would anyone else besides a gardener understand what "dress with dried blood to accelerate" means? It's not a line from a teenage horror flick - just a suggestion of how to make a peony grow faster, taken from an old gardening book.
As an aid to better gardening communication, here is a list of gardening words you might hear - plus a sentence in which you can use it. (Thanks to Pike Nursery for allowing the use of this list.)
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- desiccated
- dried out
"I know I shouldn't have planted that Japanese maple in full sunshine. Now the leaves are desiccated around the edges."
- dethatcher
- a powered machine (also called a vertical mower) which slices into the thatch layer in order to lessen it
"I'm glad I waited until May to use a dethatcher. I could have really hurt my zoysia grass if I'd dethatched while it was brown."
- dormant
- a plant that is "sleeping" for the winter
"Centipede grass never goes completely dormant. That's why you can't spray Roundup on it to kill winter weeds."
- drip line
- the imaginary line under the furthest extension of a tree's limbs
"More than 50 percent of a tree's roots are outside the drip line!"
- drop spreader
- a spreader designed to drop its contents through evenly-spaced holes.
"I have a lot of curves and nooks in my yard so a drop spreader let's me fertilize accurately."
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