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What is Strip-Cropping?
What is strip cropping?
Posted on: 03/09/2009 | 2 Feedback(s)
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What is an Espalier? (Espaliers)
A plant, typically a tree or shrub, that has been trained to grow in a flattened pattern with the help or wires, trellis, or a fence.
Posted on: 01/03/2007 | 0 Feedback(s)
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What is Fertilizer?
Organic or inorganic plant foods, which may be either liquid or granular, used to amend the soil in order to improve the quality or quantity of plant growth.
Posted on: 01/03/2007 | 1 Feedback(s)
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What are Hardiness Zones (Plant Hardiness Zones)?
Growing regions designated by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) which divides the United States and southern Canada into 11 planting zones based on a 10 degree Fahrenheit difference in the average annual minimum temperatures. Using these zones as a guide, seed companies and nurseries label their horticultural products based on which zones plants will grow most successfully in. Higher numbered zones are generally warmer.
Posted on: 10/10/2005 | 0 Feedback(s)
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What is an Eye
In gardening: An undeveloped or dormant shoot; dormant bud. A collection of several buds on the surface of a potato tuber...
Posted on: 09/26/2005 | 0 Feedback(s)
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What is an Evergreen?
A plant having foliage that remains green thoughout the year.
Posted on: 09/26/2005 | 0 Feedback(s)
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What is an Epiphyte?
Epiphytes are plants that live attached to a plant (or other structure like a rock, telephone pole or a building and not in the ground)...
Posted on: 09/26/2005 | 0 Feedback(s)
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What is an Endocrine disruptor?
A substance that interferes with natural hormones.
Posted on: 09/26/2005 | 0 Feedback(s)
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What are Earthworm Castings?
Earthworm feces; the voided earth and other waste materials that are deposited on the surface of the ground. Not all species form their casts above ground.
Posted on: 09/26/2005 | 0 Feedback(s)
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What is a Drip Line?
The circle you would draw on the ground directly under a tree's outermost branches. It is referred to as the drip line because...
Posted on: 09/26/2005 | 0 Feedback(s)
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