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GARDEN ROOT [9 records]

Record 1 2024-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farm Implements and Gardening Tools
CONT

Bypass secateurs use two blades that glide past each other, enabling a sharp, clean cut, close to the stem or root. Bypass secateurs are therefore particularly suited for cutting living plant tissue. They can be used to cut young or soft wood, as well as semi-woody garden bushes and shrubs.

Key term(s)
  • by-pass pruner
  • by-pass pruning shears
  • by-pass secateur

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage agricole et horticole
CONT

Le sécateur à lames franches est constitué de deux lames qui glissent l'une contre l'autre, ce qui permet une coupe propre, nette et précise proche de la tige ou de la racine. Les sécateurs à lames franches sont particulièrement adaptés à la coupe des fleurs, bois vert et jeunes pousses. Ils peuvent être utilisés pour couper les bois jeunes ou tendres, ainsi que les buissons et arbustes semi-ligneux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aperos agrícolas e implementos de horticultura
CONT

Tijeras de corte deslizante: tienen una hoja cortante y su contrahoja es la que sujeta la rama, manteniéndola firme mientras se realiza la ruptura.

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Record 2 2022-09-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horticulture
  • Vegetable Crop Production
CONT

No-dig gardening is a method that aims for minimal disturbance of the soil, so that the natural processes can be preserved. This allows the natural organisms to thrive, increasing the soil' s overall health and therefore that of your plants. An example of these organisms is mycorrhizal fungus, which forms a mutualistic relationship with plants and aid in root growth. Digging your garden can break up the fungal threads in the soil, meaning that your plants don’t benefit from these helpful organisms. No-dig gardening allows natural relationships between organisms to flourish and preserves the overall structure of the soil, leading to improved plant growth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Horticulture
  • Production légumière

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Culture of Fruit Trees
  • Silviculture
CONT

(Heeling in) is a procedure designed to keep alive and in the best possible condition bare-root plants dug for transplanting that cannot be planted immediately. ... It is done by digging a trench or ditch of sufficient size to accommodate the roots of plants laid as closely together as practicable without breaking, or bunching the roots to the extent that soil filled in will not be in contact with them.

CONT

Water your heeling trenches thoroughly, immediately before setting your plants into this temporary home. Cut off any roots which were damaged in the moving process, and then you can set each plant into the trench, allowing a small space between each rootball. Mix moist peat moss or wood shavings with the native soil to increase the water retention capabilities of the soil. Using this mixture, work the soil in among the roots, and cover the entire root ball slightly deeper than at the depth it was previously covered. Water again, thoroughly. Be sure to water this holding area regularly, but do not feed the plants. This method should keep your plants alive for 6 months or longer, until you are ready to set them into their permanent garden home.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arboriculture fruitière
  • Sylviculture
DEF

Tranchée qui sert à l'entreposage des végétaux en attente de plantation définitive ou pour leur conservation hivernale.

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Diseases
DEF

A common disease of cabbages and related plants caused by a slime mold Plasmodiophora brassicae producing swellings or distortions of the root followed often by decline in vigor or by death.

CONT

Plasmodiophora brassicae. Club root of cabbage and other crucifers, finger-and-toe disease, on alyssum, brussels sprouts, cabbage, chinese cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, hesperis, honesty, pepper grass, garden cress, mustard, radish, rutabaga, stock, turnip, and western wallflower.... Losses are both from death of plants and seedlings and infestation of soil, for susceptible crucifers cannot be grown again on the same land for several years.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des plantes
CONT

La notion d'équilibre d'un sol doit toujours présider à la réalisation d'une culture [...] pour lutter contre la hernie du chou, causée par le Plasmodiophora brassicae, on a conseillé des amendements calcaires.

OBS

hernie. Nom générique de maladies caractérisées par une hyperplasie et/ou une hypertrophie qui peuvent être très importantes, comme la hernie du chou causée par le champignon Plasmodiophora brassicae.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades de las plantas
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Record 5 2001-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drainage and Irrigation (Agric.)
CONT

Drip Irrigation.... Water is delivered in small quantities under low pressure directly to... the root zone of the plants. You’ll need 1/2 inch polyethylene header pipe, and a roll of thin tape-like porous tubing. The header pipe connects to a garden hose and routes water through the garden. The pipe is placed either down the center or along one end of the garden. Small puncture holes are then made with a screwdriver into the header pipe at intervals corresponding to garden row. Eight-to ten-inch pieces of rubber connecting hose are then inserted into these holes. The other end of the connecting hose attaches to a length of porous tape. This tape is rolled out along each vegetable bed and cut to the same length as the row. Then end of the tape is then crimped to prevent water loss when the system is in use. Porous irrigation tape is best placed about three to four inches away from the base of the plants.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Drainage et irrigation (Agriculture)
CONT

Les rampes aplatissables sont appelées des gaines qui peuvent être simples ou doubles. On distingue divers types de gaines : - gaines perforées [...] - gaines poreuses : la paroi extérieure, composée de fibres «non tissées», laisse suinter l'eau à travers des pores de quelques micromètres. Gaines perforées et poreuses ne sont utilisables qu'à de faibles pressions et ne peuvent convenir que pour des cultures annuelles (maraîchage, fleurs) en terrain plat.

Spanish

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Record 6 1998-12-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Preservation and Canning
  • Packaging Techniques
DEF

To prepare perishable foodstuffs by canning them into a container, followed by affixing and sealing a cover on the open end.

OBS

Today the tin-plated steel double-seamed can is still the predominant food canning package but glass is also used for some products.

CONT

Most garden produce was "put down" in cool, below-ground rooms for the winter(root cellars)... the process of canning was known as "putting food up".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conservation des aliments et conserverie
  • Techniques d'emballage
DEF

Action visant à conserver des denrées périssables à l'aide de différents procédés, plus spécialement la mise en boîte de conserve et la mise en bocal (traitement à la chaleur).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Conservación de los alimentos y elaboración de conservas
  • Técnicas de embalaje
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Record 7 1986-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Preservation and Canning
CONT

Most garden produce was "put down" in cool, below-ground rooms for the winter(root cellars)... the process of canning was known as "putting food up".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conservation des aliments et conserverie

Spanish

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Record 8 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vegetable Crop Production

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production légumière

Spanish

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Record 9 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farm Implements and Gardening Tools
  • General Hardware
  • Property Upkeeping
CONT

The garden trowel is an indispensable tool most useful for lifting small plants with a minimum of root disturbance and for planting out of pots.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage agricole et horticole
  • Quincaillerie générale
  • Travaux d'entretien de la propriété
OBS

Pour déplacer les plantes avec leur motte sans les déraciner, pour le dépotage et le rempotage, l'épandage de terreau, etc.

Spanish

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