Horticulture

Propagation, soil and growing media, plant relationships, and whether a plant will thrive where you are.

The Horticulture domain covers questions about how to multiply a plant from what you already have, what a soil or growing medium is doing and how to improve it, which plants help or hinder each other and why, and whether a given plant actually suits a given place.

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The Horticulture Territory

  • horticulture
  • pedology
  • cooperative extension
  • agroecology
  • master gardener programs
  • edaphology
  • plant science
  • plant ecology
  • botany
  • weed science
  • ethnobotany
  • agricultural extension
  • soil science
  • seed libraries
  • sustainable agriculture
  • agronomy
  • botanic garden education
  • community gardening
  • permaculture
  • native plant conservation
  • citizen science
  • master naturalist
  • school gardens
  • foraging
  • home food growing
  • seed saving
  • plant propagation
  • horticultural education
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Specialist Horticulture Tools

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How the Horticulture Engines Connect

Growing something involves four questions that are usually asked together and answered separately. What the plant needs and whether this place can supply it. What the medium it grows in is doing. How to make more of it. And what its neighbours do to it.

They are not independent. A cutting that will not root may be sitting in the wrong medium. A plant struggling in a bed may be competing with what is next to it rather than failing on light or water. A soil problem and a site problem produce the same symptoms.

Niche, Dirt, Cut & Root, and Companions each take one of those questions directly, so a plant that is not thriving can be diagnosed at the right level rather than treated at the wrong one.

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Related Reading

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