Thesaurus results for GARDENING

gardening

noun

Definition of gardening

as in horticulture

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Recent Examples of gardening Amazon has more Fourth of July sales under $25 across fashion, home, kitchen, bedding, and gardening categories. — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 July 2026 Tractor Supply sells a wide variety of items, including grills, lawn mowers, ammunition, clothing, tools, gardening products, ATVs, horse saddles, kayaks and live chicks. — Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026 Among DeJohn’s hobbies were flower arranging, collecting anything blue and white, gardening, and decorating. — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 2 July 2026 The museum shop has enough bespoke gardening tools to give Gardenheir a run for its money. — Lucy Boyle, Curbed, 1 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for gardening

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Noun

The Huntington hosts a rice-planting day, offering hands-on learning about Japanese culture and farming techniques with their horticulture curator of Asian gardens.

— Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
Beth Bolles is a horticulture agent with the University of Florida IFAS Extension Escambia County.

— Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart, 30 June 2026

Definition of horticulture

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But the dramatic cut in drug production was also due in part to farmers being given alternative crops to the cultivation of opium poppies, De Croo said, noting that funding for such programs had been severely curtailed.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
The report itself spans 36 plant fibers, excluding cotton, and examines cultivation, extraction and processing activities across applications including textiles and fashion, automotive, construction and pulp and paper.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 7 July 2026

Definition of cultivation

Noun

Shrimp farming is often held up as a success story in that vein, a profitable adaptation to rising salinity.

— Zakir Hossain Chowdhury, The Dial, 7 July 2026
Researchers believe the jewelry may have belonged to a merchant from the Vaishya social class, one of the traditional social groups in ancient Indian society associated with trade, farming and commerce, according to the Smithsonian Magazine.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 7 July 2026

Definition of farming

Noun

California’s agriculture industry is tops year-round, but summer is when folks flock to the outdoor markets for the best our farms have to offer.

— John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
Formate is the salt or ion of formic acid and is widely used in industries such as agriculture and manufacturing.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 7 July 2026

Definition of agriculture

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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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
Hundreds of dollars per acre were already spent on tillage, fertilizer and seed.

— Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 17 May 2026