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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.
N
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.
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 occurring 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: Fertilizer derived from decomposed plant or animal material. It 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.
