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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Torulose

Plants; Horticulture

Twisted or knobby, irregularly swollen at close intervals.

Trailing

Plants; Horticulture

Prostrate, running down or along the ground, or not rooting.

Topiary

Plants; Horticulture

The art of pruning and training plants into specific shapes.

The ability of a soil to resist a change in soil solution hydrogen ion concentration (soil pH), resisting the tendency to become more acid upon the addition of an acid or an acid-forming material or ...

Broadcast application

Plants; Horticulture

Application of either solid or fluid fertiliser to the soil surface with or without subsequent incorporation by tillage. No specific location relative to the plant is implied. Nutrients may be ...

Aeration soil

Plants; Horticulture

The exchange of air in soil with air from the atmosphere. The composition of the air in a well-aerated soil is similar to that in the atmosphere; in a poorly aerated soil, the air in the soil is ...

Buffer

Plants; Horticulture

A system of substances, usually a mixture of weak acids and their salts, which tends to resist changes in pH. In soils, organic matter, clays, and free calcium carbonate tend to buffer the system ...