To sow seed over a wide area, especially by hand.
Undigested materials, soil, and bacteria excreted by a worm. Worm manure.
A green photosynthetic pigment found in plants, algae, and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) that help convert carbon dioxide to carbohydrates and oxygen.
A place where an extensive variety of woody plants are cultivated and exhibited for scientific, educational, and ornamental purposes.
The premature development of a flowering stalk and, subsequently, seed.
An organism that satisfies its need for organic food molecules by using the energy of the sun. Green plants are autotrophs.
The lawn waste that results from mowing.
The Latin (sometimes Greek) scientific name of a plant is its botanical name. There is only one botanical name per plant so if you want a specific variety, use its botanical name to be sure you're getting what you want.
What are "Greens" for composting?
Almost any organic material is suitable for a compost pile. The pile needs a proper ratio of carbon-rich materials, or "browns," and nitrogen-rich materials, or "greens." Among the brown materials are dried leaves, straw, and wood chips. Nitrogen materials are fresh or green, such as grass clippings and kitchen scraps.
Composting under conditions where the temperatures do not rise to 140° F, which lets nature take its course in a more leisurely manner and leaves many pathogens and seeds dormant in the pile.
A cluster of long male flowers without petals (typical of the oaks, hickories, walnuts, birches, and other trees) that hangs from a twig in spring and serves to pollinate the separate female flowers.
What are "Browns" For Composting
Almost any organic material is suitable for a compost pile. The pile needs a proper ratio of carbon-rich materials, or "browns," and nitrogen-rich materials, or "greens." Among the brown materials are dried leaves, straw, and wood chips. Nitrogen materials are fresh or green, such as grass clippings and kitchen scraps.
Northern-(e.g. Boreal forest)
Commercial fertilizers generally have 3 numbers on the front of the label separated by dashes (e.g. 5-10-5). These numbers represent the percentage by weight of the 3 major nutrients plants need: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium-in that order. These are often abbreviated as N-P-K. So if you purchased a 10 pound bag of fertilizer labeled 5-10-5, it would contain 5% nitrogen, 10% phosphorus and 5% potassium. The remaining 80% could be comprised of other nutrients and filler.
A clustered mass of individual soil particles varied in shape, ranging in size from a microscopic granule to a small crumb, and considered the basic structural until of soil.
What is Carbon-To-Nitrogen Ratio (C: N)?
The relative volume of nitrogen-rich (green) materials to carbon-rich (brown) materials in a compost pile.
A plant that completes its entire life cycle within a single growing season. It must germinate from seed, become a plant, produce flowers, set seed, and die all in one season.
The art of cultivating dwarf trees, first developed by the Japanese more than a thousand years ago. In bonsai cultivation, woody plants are kept small and in true proportion to their natural models by growing them in small containers, feeding and watering them only enough for healthy growth, pruning, and training branches in the desired shape by the application of wire coils; the term bonsai also refers to the plants dwarfed by this method.
Also called hydrophytic plants or hydrophytes - are plants that have adapted to living in or on aquatic environments.
Open grassland habitats composed primarily of annual plant species.
