Thesaurus results for GARDENING

gardening

noun

Definition of gardening

as in horticulture

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Recent Examples of gardening Dealing with her own injuries that left her sidelined or on minute-restraints at the start of the season, Clark took to gardening to relieve stress. — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 31 July 2026 Beyond getting you outside and moving, gardening offers a satisfying sense of progress. — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 30 July 2026 At the event, attendees can learn more about food security, water efficiency, and sustainable gardening. — Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 30 July 2026 It's been suggested that coming into contact with soil contaminated by an armadillo also could affect humans, so gloves are recommended when gardening or digging. — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 29 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for gardening

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Noun

Amy Papineau is a landscape horticulture field specialist at the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension.

— The Spruce, The Spruce, 4 Aug. 2026
Well, technically Scott McMahan is the vice president of horticulture and collections at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, but being a plant explorer comes with the job.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of horticulture

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That legacy was disrupted in the early 1600s, when the Venetians uprooted much of the island’s vineyard land to make way for wheat cultivation.

— Monica Mendal, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2026
Furthering the business-meets-academia partnership, Cosecha de Galicia—a subsidiary of brewing group Hijos de Riviera that is focused on hop cultivation—will provide access to raw materials.

— Sarah Jones, Footwear News, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of cultivation

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Just about all the infrastructure and services are new and improved in this rural central Washington farming town of 8,500, miles from the Columbia River.

— Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
In one of the farming groups, the researchers identified a distinct version of a receptor gene called OR12D3.

— Willow Zhang, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of farming

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

Definition of farmwork

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Avoid unnecessary tillage, which can break fungal hyphae, and keep living roots in the ground when practical through perennial plantings or compatible cover crops such as annual ryegrass and crimson clover.

— Dr. Avishesh Neupane, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2026
While reducing tillage is encouraged, minimal tillage is acceptable on a true regenerative system if it is being used in lieu of synthetic chemicals.

— Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026