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Horticulture
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Horticulture is the industry and science of plant cultivation including the process of preparing soil for the planting of seeds, tubers, or cuttings.
[1] Horticulturists work and conduct research in the disciplines of
plant propagation and
cultivation,
crop production,
plant breeding and
genetic engineering, plant
biochemistry, and plant
physiology. The work involves
fruits,
berries,
nuts,
vegetables,
flowers,
trees,
shrubs, and
turf. Horticulturists work to improve crop yield, quality,
nutritional value, and resistance to
insects,
diseases, and environmental stresses. Horticulture usually refers to gardening on a smaller scale, while
agriculture refers to the large-scale cultivation of crops.
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[edit] Etymology
The word
horticulture is modeled after
agriculture, and comes from the Latin
hortus "garden"
[3] and
cultūra "cultivation", from
cultus, the perfect passive
participle of the verb
colō "I cultivate".
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[edit] Areas of study
Horticulture involves eight areas of study, which can be grouped into two broad sections - ornamentals and edibles:
- Arboriculture is the study of, and the selection, planting, care, and removal of, individual trees, shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants.
- Floriculture includes the production and marketing of floral crops.
- Landscape horticulture includes the production, marketing and maintenance of landscape plants.
- Olericulture includes the production and marketing of vegetables.
- Pomology includes the production and marketing of fruits.
- Viticulture includes the production and marketing of grapes.
- Oenology includes all aspects of wine and winemaking.
- Postharvest physiology involves maintaining the quality of and preventing the spoilage of horticultural crops.
Horticulturists can work in industry, government or educational institutions or private collections. They can be cropping systems engineers, wholesale or retail business managers, propagators and tissue culture specialists (fruits, vegetables, ornamentals, and turf), crop inspectors, crop production advisers, extension specialists, plant breeders, research scientists, and of course, teachers.
Disciplines which complement horticulture include
biology,
botany,
entomology,
chemistry,
mathematics,
genetics,
physiology,
statistics,
computer science, and
communications,
garden design,
planting design.
Plant science and horticulture courses include: plant materials,
plant propagation, tissue culture, crop production,
post-harvest handling,
plant breeding,
pollination management, crop nutrition,
entomology,
plant pathology, economics, and business. Some careers in horticultural science require a masters (MS) or doctoral (PhD) degree.
Horticulture is practiced in many gardens, "plant growth centres" and nurseries. Activities in nurseries range from preparing seeds and cuttings to growing fully mature plants. These are often sold or transferred to ornamental gardens or market gardens.
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Tillage
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Cultivating after early rain.
Tillage is the
agricultural preparation of the
soil by mechanical
agitation of various types, such as digging, stirring, and overturning. Examples of
human-powered tilling methods using
hand tools include
shovelling,
picking,
mattock work,
hoeing, and
raking. Examples of
draft-animal-powered or
mechanized work include
ploughing (overturning with moldboards or chiseling with chisel shanks),
rototilling, rolling with
cultipackers or other
rollers,
harrowing, and cultivating with
cultivator shanks (teeth). Small-scale gardening and farming, for household food production or
small business production, tends to use the smaller-scale methods above, whereas medium- to large-scale farming tends to use the larger-scale methods. There is a fluid continuum, however. Any type of gardening or farming, but especially larger-scale commercial types, may also use
low-till or
no-till methods as well.
Tillage is often classified into two types, primary and secondary. There is no strict boundary between them so much as a loose distinction between tillage that is deeper and thorougher (primary) and tillage that is shallower and sometimes more selective of location (secondary). Primary tillage such as ploughing tends to produce a rough surface finish, whereas secondary tillage tends to produce a smoother surface finish, such as that required to make a good
seedbed for many crops. Harrowing and rototilling often combine primary and secondary tillage into one operation.
"Tillage" can also mean the land that is
tilled. The word "
cultivation" has several senses that overlap substantially with those of "tillage". In a general context, both can refer to agriculture generally. Within agriculture, both can refer to any of the kinds of soil agitation described above. Additionally, "cultivation" or "cultivating" may refer to an even narrower sense of shallow, selective secondary tillage of
row crop fields that kills weeds while sparing the crop plants.
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When we are being offered Cultivation we are being offered the dirt plants grow in not the growing the plants itself.
It was a clever deception that prop 19 offered us Cultivation of a 5x5 or 25 sqft space and we assumed we could grow plants as if we had rights.
The truth is Prop 19 tried to Trick us into thinking we would be free when all it was actually doing is establishing legal Drug Dealing.
Legal Drug Dealing is something California doesn't want at this time in our history and still we already have dispensaries and delivery services everywhere.
Legalize for the People First and let us see how it will go before we try and push legal drug dealing down the throats of the voters so they can have rights to the dirt plants grow in.
