gardening

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Recent Examples of gardening If patio furniture, grills, lawn games and gardening products on are your shopping list, Amazon Prime Day is the perfect opportunity to score it all at a discount. Claire Peltier, ABC News, 23 June 2026 Reusing grass clippings in any of these ways promotes sustainability and can be part of a low-impact approach to gardening and landscaping. Peg Aloi, The Spruce, 21 June 2026 For example, my mother still hosted family dinners and enjoyed gardening in her back yard until her late 80s. Steve Vernon, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026 For gardening questions, contact us toll-free at (877) 486-6271, visit our website at homegarden.cahnr.uconn.edu, or reach out to your local UConn Extension Center at extension.uconn.edu/locations. Heather Zidack, Hartford Courant, 7 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for gardening
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Noun
  • Linda Langelo, horticulture specialist at Colorado State University and author of Plants Are Speaking.
    Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 22 June 2026
  • Tim Johnson is senior director of horticulture at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
    Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
Noun
  • The crash site was forest in 1944, but it was later excavated for rice cultivation, Fong told Jackson.
    Kocha Olarn, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
  • The ruling also confirmed that the exemption for propagation material was not intended to create a broad commercial market, but it was supposed to be limited to private cultivation or within the framework of cultivation associations.
    Dario Sabaghi, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Local agriculture can benefit from precision farming, predictive analytics, and resource optimization that increase productivity while lowering costs.
    Britney Porter, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Regenerative agriculture is a sustainable farming practice focused on soil health.
    Lizzie Kane June 29, Sacbee.com, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Local agriculture can benefit from precision farming, predictive analytics, and resource optimization that increase productivity while lowering costs.
    Britney Porter, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Yet despite those struggles, South Africa, one of Africa’s leading industrial economies, remains a destination for migrants willing to take low-paying jobs in domestic work, security and agriculture.
    Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Torn between toiling away at farmwork, his corrective swimming lessons, and learning music from a local organist — the elderly Michel (Alexandre Astier, Clichy’s former directing partner), who shows him more kindness than most — Christophe’s world gradually widens.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 19 May 2026
  • Every year, hundreds of thousands of foreign laborers are drawn to America by the promise of steady, seasonal farmwork through the H-2A program.
    Max Blau, ProPublica, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Better practices such as cover crops, reduced or no tillage to protect the soil and on-farm installations to reduce runoff have substantially increased in recent years.
    ABC News, ABC News, 4 June 2026
  • Additionally, 57 percent of acreage uses no-till or conservation tillage, minimizing soil disturbance to reduce erosion, improve water infiltration and lower fuel use.
    SJ Studio, Footwear News, 6 Apr. 2026

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“Gardening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gardening. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.

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