A glossary of terms and acronyms that are used throughout the Silicon Valley Seeds website. Note that items contained in the glossary fall within the three broad terminology categories that we are interested in, namely seeds, garden, and food preservation.
Each term placed within the glossary appears both in the glossary index and in inline tooltips within the pages and articles in which it is used. So a glossary term definition provides the additional benefit of an inline tooltip popup, where the term itself is appropriately called out.
- achene
- acidic soil
- agriculture
- alkali soil
- alkaline soil
- alternate-day caging
- amendment
- angiosperm
- annual
- anther
- asexual reproduction
- baby greens
- berry
- biennial
- binomial
- binomial nomenclature
- biodiversity
- blanch
- blanch
- bolting
- botanical name
- budwood
- bulb
- certified organic
- cf
- chaff
- characteristic
- cleaning screen
- cold frame
- cole crops
- companion planting
- compost
- corm
- cover crop
- crop
- cross-pollination
- crown
- cultivar
- damping-off
- days to emerge
- days to harvest
- deadheading
- dehiscent
- determinate
- dioecious
- diploid
- direct sow
- disease resistance
- disease tolerance
- dominant trait
- drought tolerance
- drought tolerant
- embryo
- equinox
- fallow
- fertilization
- filament
- filial generation number (F1)
- flail
- flower
- foliage
- food sovereignty
- forcing
- foundation seed
- fruit
- full sun
- genetically modified organism
- germination rate
- GMO
- grafting
- grains
- green manure
- gymnosperms
- gynoecious
- hard seed
- hardening off
- heirloom
- herbicide
- horticulture
- humus
- hybrid
- inbreeding depression
- indehiscent
- indeterminate
- inoculant
- insecticide
- integrated pest management
- intermediate
- keeper
- leaching
- legume
- loam
- long-lived annual
- marker-assisted (molecular) breeding
- medium
- microbe
- microgreen
- micronutrient
- monecious
- mycorrhiza
- nematode
- neutral soil
- no-till
- OP
- open pollinated
- organic
- ornamental
- ovary
- overwintering
- pappus
- parthenocarpic
- partial sun (or partial shade)
- pelleting
- perennial
- perfect flower
- pH
- photoperiodism (or day length response)
- pistil
- plant hardiness zone
- pollen
- pollination
- pollinator
- priming
- recessive trait
- rhizome
- roguing
- root
- rootstock
- row cover
- scarify
- scientific (Latin) name
- scion
- seed stewardship
- seeding
- selection
- self-pollination
- self-sow
- smother crop
- solstice
- sp
- spp
- sprout
- stamen
- stratification
- succession planting
- tap root
- tender perennial
- thinning
- trait
- transplanting
- trellis
- tuber
- umbel
- usda hardiness zone
- variety
- vernalization
- viability
- vigor
- volunteer plant
- winnow