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Glossary: M - O
Gardening terms can be difficult to understand
and can make reading books or articles on the subject less
informative than they would be otherwise. When you find
a term you don't understand, look it up in this glossary.
Let me know if you come across any term that doesn't appear
here and I will add it.
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Maincrop:
Refers to the crop of vegetables, often potatoes, that produce
crops throughout the main growing season.
Manure:
Excreta from animals, usually horses and chickens, used
to enrich the soil.
Microclimate:
A small area that has a markedly different climate to its
surrounds - frost pocket.
Micronutrients:
Very small amounts of chemicals needed by plants.
Monocarpic:
Plants that only flower and fruit once in their lives.
Monoecious:
A plant with both male and female flowers see dioecious.
Mulch:
A layer of grass cuttings, straw, coconut shells, etc, applied
to the soil to retain moisture and suppress weeds.
Mutation:
A spontaneous or planned change in the genetic make-up of
a plant usually causing changes in appearance.
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Neutral:
Neither acid nor alkaline
with a pH of around 7.
Nodal Cutting:
A cutting taken from a piece of stem
cut just below a node.
Node:
A place on the stem of a plant where leaves, flowers, branches
or shoots grow.
Neutral:
Neither acid nor alkaline
with a pH of around 7.
Nodal Cutting:
A cutting taken from a piece of stem
cut just below a node.
Node:
A place on the stem of a plant where leaves, flowers, branches
or shoots grow.
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Offset:
A naturally occuring plant growing usually from the base
of an established plant.
Opposite:
Used to describe leaves growing at the same level on either
side of a stem.
Organic:
Fertiliser derived from decomposed plant or animal material.
Also refers to a method of gardening
that doesn't use chemicals.
Over
Potting: Putting a plant into a pot that is too
big, often stops a plant flowering or becoming well established.
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