Horticulture

Horticulture

Of or pertaining to the business, science, and technology of intensely cultivating plants for the use of humans.

Industry: Plants

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Horticulture

Mulch-till

Plants; Horticulture

The soil is disturbed prior to planting. Tillage tools such as chisels, field cultivators, disks, sweeps or blades are used. Weed control is accomplished with herbicides and/or cultivation. ...

Cork

Plants; Horticulture

Another protective simple tissue is cork. This tissue is composed of cells which have their walls water-proofed by suberin. Since the function of this tissue is to protect the inner tissue from ...

Controlled-release fertiliser (crf)

A fertiliser that is not immediately soluble and available to plants because the nutrients are released over time, from weeks to months. Release is based on low solubility, biological breakdown, or ...

Container capacity

Plants; Horticulture

The percent volume (volume/volume) of soil/growing media filled with water after it has been saturated and allowed to drain. It is sometimes called the water holding capacity and is the maximum ...

Container stock

Plants; Horticulture

Nursery plants grown entirely in containers rather than being dug from a field.

Leaching requirement

Plants; Horticulture

The fraction of the water entering the soil that must pass through the root zone in order to prevent soil salinity from exceeding a specified value. Leaching requirement is used primarily under ...

Leaf margins

Plants; Horticulture

There are three types of leaf margins; entire, toothed and lobed. The entire margins are the smooth and unindented blade edges. The toothed margins are indented as saw teeth. These indentations ...