Gardening Terms for Beginners

🌱 Acidic soil has a pH lower than seven and is preferred by most plants.

🌿 Bolting occurs when a plant starts producing flowers and seeds prematurely instead of crops, often due to weather changes or off-season planting.

🌿 Cultivar refers to cultivated varieties of plants that are specially selected and cultivated by humans for specific characteristics.

♻️ Compost is completely decayed organic matter used as fertilizer and soil conditioner.

🍃 Dormancy is the yearly cycle in which plants shed their leaves, stop growing, and enter a period of rest, usually during winter.

🌱 Germination is the initial process of growth in seeds when they sprout, bud, or shoot above the soil, marking the start of a new plant's growth.

🌱 Grafting is a technique that joins two plants vegetatively, using the roots and bottom portion of one plant to attach it to a shoot or stem from another plant.

❄️ Hardiness zones are geographically defined areas where specific plants are capable of growing, based on their ability to withstand the minimum temperatures of the zone.

🌾 Hybrid seeds are produced through cross-pollinating two different but related plants to improve characteristics like yield, uniformity, and disease resistance, but they do not produce consistent offspring in the second generation.

🌿 The NPK ratio found on fertilizer labels specifies the percentage of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, which are essential nutrients for plant growth in varying ratios.