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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herbicide

a chemical that will kill plants

"I've tried digging and I've tried mowing; this year I'm using a herbicide on my kudzu!"

honeydew

the sticky liquid secreted by sucking insects

"My car was covered with honeydew from the aphids after I parked under a maple tree."

horticultural oil

a thin oil designed to be sprayed on insects to suffocate them

"Horticultural oil is about the only thing you can use to control scale on euonymous shrubs."

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