Gardening

Gardening

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vermiculite

Garden; Gardening

A light-weight, mineral called mica that is added to potting mixtures to improve root growth via aeration and has moisture retaining abilities. There is no nutritive value in the mineral.

cloister

Garden; Gardening

Cloister derives from the Latin clostrum= lock. It desscribed the part of a monastery to which the public had no access and then became used to describe a rectangular lawn surrounded by a covered ...

manure tea

Garden; Gardening

A liquid fertilizer made by mixing manures with water and filtering out. Pillow cases filled with cow or horse patooties and dunked in a pail of water.

tendril

Garden; Gardening

Plants (like sweet peas, clematis, and grapes) producing a cordlike structure that will help to support themselves.

dead head

Garden; Gardening

The process of pinching off used or spent blooms to keep the plants well groomed and to prevent them from setting seed. This will promote continued bloom.