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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grassy weed

a weed having leaves that are similar to lawn grass: crabgrass, annual bluegrass, nutgrass

"Nutgrass is rated the hardest-to-control grassy weed in the world!"

green-up

the process by which a plant comes out of dormancy and puts on new leaves

"It is a good idea to wait on fertilizing zoysia lawns until they have achieved 50 percent green-up."

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