Glossary
The words, explained.
The gardening words the app uses, in plain language — what each one means and where you will meet it.
- Aerate
- Air layering
- Annual
- Aphid
- Aspect
- Biennial
- Bitter pit
- Black spot
- Blanching
- Blight
- Blossom-end rot
- Bolting
- Bulb
- Cabbage white
- Carrot fly
- Cat-facing
- Catch crop
- Chill hours
- Chitting
- Chlorosis
- Cloche
- Clubroot
- Cold frame
- Companion planting
- Compost
- Coppicing
- Corm
- Cotyledon
- Crop rotation
- Cuttings
- Damping off
- Deadheading
- Deciduous
- Dibber
- Dioecious
- Disbudding
- Division
- Earthing up
- Evergreen
- F1 hybrid
- Fasciation
- Fescue
- Fleece (horticultural)
- Forcing
- Formative pruning
- Frost pocket
- Grafting
- Green manure
- Greens and browns
- Half-hardy
- Hard pruning
- Hardening off
- Hardiness zone
- Hardwood cutting
- Hardy
- Herbaceous
- Heritage (or heirloom)
- Honey fungus
- Last frost date
- Layering
- Leaf mould
- Loam
- Lodging
- Microclimate
- Mulch
- Mulching
- No-dig
- Node
- One-third rule
- Overseed
- Perennial
- Pinching out
- Pollarding
- Powdery mildew
- Pricking out
- Raised bed
- Red spider mite
- Renovation pruning
- Rhizome
- Rosette
- Ryegrass
- Scarify
- Self-fertile
- Self-seeding
- Semi-ripe cutting
- Side-shooting
- Slugs & snails
- Softwood cutting
- Stolon
- Stopping
- Succession sowing
- Sucker
- Sulphate of iron
- Sward
- Tender
- Thatch
- Tine
- Tip pruning
- Top dressing
- Top-dressing (lawns)
- Triploid
- True leaves
- Tuber
- Verticillium wilt
- Vine weevil
- Wetting agent
- pH (soil)