Alternative gardening terms?

[cardiffsteve]

Alternative definitions of gardening terms

Pinching out: Coverting thy neighbours lottie and pinching veg from them!





(I do not condone the pinching of other peoples produce)

[cardiffsteve]

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

[cardiffsteve]

Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.
A favorite of birds means to avoid planting near cars, sidewalks, or clotheslines.
Grows more beautiful each year means "Looks like roadkill for the foreseeable future."
Zone 5 with protection is a variation on the phrase "Russian roulette."
May require support means your daughter's engineering degree will finally pay off.
"Moisture-loving" plants are ideal for landscaping all your bogs and swamps.
"Carefree" refers more to the plant's attitude than to your workload.
"Vigorous" is code for "has a Napoleonic compulsion to take over the world."
"Grandma's Favorite" -- until she discovered free-flowering, disease-resistant hybrids

[veggiechicken]

I think Pinching out is the technique of taking a small cutting from someone else's plant when they're not looking.

[cardiffsteve]

Boy: Noise with dust on it.
Chickens: The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.
Dust: Mud with the juice squeezed out.
Mosquito: An insect that makes you like flies better.
Raisin: A grape with a sunburn.
Chemicals: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made.

[veggiechicken]

Nut : Cardiff Steve

[cardiffsteve]

Nut : Cardiff Steve

I resemble that remark!

[veggiechicken]

Walnut: Cardiff Steve leaning against a wall

Chestnut: Cardiff Steve baring his chest

Beechnut: Cardiff Steve having a paddle

Monkeynut: Cardiff Steve acting like a monkey

Peanut : Cardiff Steve having a ...

[chris]

... pea from his plot?

[Thelma Sanders]

an alternative to weeding........is best left to the imagination

Manuring..being taken short on the plot.
Seeding/dibbing...is best done at night when there's no-one around
Earthing up.. is what you do after you've used the compost toilet.

[veggiechicken]

... pea from his plot?

From/on - your choice!

[veggiechicken]

Thinning out - joining a slimming club
Plant - what they call children in Wales (honest)
Hedging - something you do with bets.

[Fruit&2veg]

rake n 1: a dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: profligate, rip, blood, roue] 2 : degree of deviation from a horizontal plane

[mothhawk]

Easily propagated - seeds everywhere and you'll never be rid of it

Hardy perennial - smallish plant but with roots like a 400 year old oak and you'll never be rid of it

Thrives on poor soil - tenacious little b*gg*r and you'll never be rid of it

Will quickly cover a trellis or wall - your neighbour will never be rid of it either

[Rocketron]

Hardening off.....
no perhaps not