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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tap root

a central root that extends downward in the soil under the trunk of a tree

"When I saw the big trees that fell after the storm, I realized that trees growing in clay soil don't have a tap root."

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thatch

a layer of undecomposed grass stem pieces on which turfgrass may attempt to grow

"Landscapers say that unless the thatch layer is more than one-half inch thick, a lawn won't be harmed."

till

to thoroughly mix soil; often done with a shovel or a motorized tiller

"Bill tilled until the toil got to him."

topdress

spreading a thin layer on top of the ground

"Golf courses use sand to topdress their tees but topsoil is a better choice to fill low spots in most homeowner lawns."

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