Plant Sale Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Occurs when a plant is exposed to excessive heat or sun. The plant produces seeds or flower instead of a crop. Example: When a lettuce bolts prematurely, the flower head in the center pops up and goes to seed, while the lettuce leaves turn bitter and inedible.
  2. 3. A garden bed that has been elevated, which allows for warmer soil and better drainage.
  3. 5. Plants that live for multiple seasons/years.
  4. 7. To cut or pinch off dead flowers.
  5. 10. A plant grown for aesthetic purposes, rather than for eating.
  6. 12. A plant that completes its life cycle in one year- meaning you have to plant every year to continue to harvest.
  7. 13. often referred to as "days to maturity" or "days to harvest," is the time it takes for a plant to reach the stage where its foliage or fruit is ready for consumption or harvest
  8. 14. Planting and germinating seeds directly in the ground where you want them to grow, as opposed to starting them indoors and transplanting.
  9. 16. To remove plant seedlings or plants from one place and plant them somewhere else. Example: Many seeds need to be started indoors in small cells of soil, but as they grow and need more space, they must be transplanted in a larger pot or in the ground.
  10. 18. A plant variety that has been crossbred from two or more plants of different parent varieties with different characteristics in order to create a more “desirable” plant.
  11. 19. A zone determined by average temperature of your geographical location. There are 11 main zones, with subcategories of a and b (ex. Zone 7A or Zone 11B), which help to categorize which plants can grow in certain areas. We are in zone 7B
Down
  1. 1. When a cold-hardy plant is planted in the fall and lives to spring to be harvested; lasts “over winter”.
  2. 2. A plant that completes its life cycle in two years.
  3. 4. Plants with seeds that develop through natural pollination. Example: Wind, insects, or animals.
  4. 6. An open-pollinated variety that has remained unchanged (not hybridized) for at least 50-100 years.
  5. 8. the process by which a plant grows from a seed into a seedling. Seeds remain dormant until conditions are favorable for germination.
  6. 9. A form of support for climbing plants. Example, a wide-windowed net to support Morning Glory and beans, or stakes and twine to support a tomato plant.
  7. 11. The science of cultivating plants.
  8. 15. To put some form of a stake into the ground next to a plant to provide it support while it is growing.
  9. 17. To remove excess seedlings (often the weak or dying ones) in order to provide more room, oxygen, and sunlight to the remaining seedlings, allowing them to thrive.