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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N-P-K

Nitrogen - Phosphorus - Potassium: the most important nutrients plants need

"I remember what the N-P-K numbers on a fertilizer bag mean by saying to myself "Up-Down-All Around!"

Nitrate nitrogen product

A fertilizer product that contains some percentage of nitrate nitrogen, plus perhaps ammoniacal nitrogen or urea nitrogen.

"Cold soil means pansies can't absorb ammoniacal nitrogen so nitrate nitrogen gives them the nutrients they need."

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