You start going into gardening but always confused on those vocabularies that the green vendor is telling you? Perhaps it is time to do some homework to increase your basic knowledge on what is the pop on the home garden.
Basically the trends of the involved vocabularies are about problem and how to solve them. As they are important for your success in the garden, you want to make sure you fully understand what your supplier meant with something. You don’t want to hurt the beautiful blossoming one without reason are you?
Bolt: it is the abrupt appearance and maturity of vegies flowers. Mostly, it is considered as a bad thing. Why? The reason is that when the vegetables plant grow their leaves in this period they result in a tough texture or bitter taste.
Deadheading: The cutting off of “dead” flower heads once plants are done blooming to encourage new blooms.
Nitrogen fixation: A concept most important to veggie gardeners: Nitrogen can be replenished by legumes (such as peas and beans) that convert nitrogen in the air into nitrogen stored in their roots, which is then available as a rich nutrient in the soil.
N:P:K: The elements nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Together they are responsible for most of the healthy growth of your plants. Fertilizers are labeled with different ratios of N:P:K, which influence what parts of the plant will flourish.
Pony pack: Like a six-pack of beer, flats of plants bought at nurseries to be transplanted in your garden. They can come in anywhere from four to 80 plants a flat.
Striking: Putting a cutting from an existing plant into a planting medium to start a new growth.
Volunteer: A plant that planted itself. The seed for the volunteer may have flown in on the wind or been deposited by fruit (such as a tomato) that has fallen. If conditions are right, the seed will sprout and a new plant will grow.
These several words are what you should need to jumpstart your gardening experience. Remember you are not Adam in the Garden of Eden, your hard toil now determine the health and success of your garden. Do not let them stand by themselves uncared. Put a better attention to your home garden and we hope they did not left unattended!