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Title: The Science of Gardening | Author(s): Professor Linda Chalker-Scott | Publisher: The Teaching Company | Year: 2018 | Language: English | Pages : 239 | Size: 48 MB | Extension: pdf

You’ll learn the science behind traditional and modern gardening techniques, and this will change the way you see your plants, and change the way you garden.

Important and interesting questions for gardeners include: Why are plants arranged into families, and what features do they share? What are plants made of, and how do they grow? Why does soil type and nutrient availability affect plant health? How do seeds know when to germinate, and how does the environment shape the way plants grow? What determines when plants flower and set seed?

Answers to all these questions and more when you study Science of Gardening.

What you will learn

On successful completion of this unit you will:

• Be able to describe features of plants, pronounce scientific names with confidence, and identify important plant families
• Understand the relationship between the internal structure of plants and their use of water and light to grow
• Understand soil properties (pH, texture, structure) and soil chemistry that contribute to healthy growth of plants
• Understand the controls of plant development: the signals for seed germination, flowering, and even senescence
• Be able to manipulate plant growth to produce more flowers and fruit in your garden
• Understand how vegetative propagation is possible and desirable in many garden plants
• Understand that sexual reproduction can lead to diversity, and why an understanding of self-incompatibility and ploidy levels is essential in many cultivated plants
• View gardening through a scientific lens.