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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warm-season grass

a grass that grows best in the summer but turns brown in the winter (ex. Bermuda, zoysia, centipede)

"If you keep the weeds out of it, a tan Bermuda lawn looks really attractive in the winter."

weed and feed

a product that combines fertilizer and a weed control chemical in the same bag

"This weed and feed label says to avoid application to newly seeded fescue grass until it's been mowed four times."

Well-drained soil

Soil through which water passes rapidly

"I thought the soil on my red clay slope was well-drained because water never stands there. Turns out it is poorly- drained .... because the water can't penetrate the clay. No wonder everything I plant there dies!"

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