SPANISH GARDENING VOCABULARY: LA HUERTA
I have always been a keen vegetable gardener. If I go over and speak to my Spanish neighbour Jacinto it is essential to have a good vocabulary about the vegetable garden so I can understand what he is saying and to know what to do when he give me some seeds and explains how to grow them.
Spanish |
English |
| una huerta | a vegetable garden |
| producir flores y semillas antes de tiempo | to bolt |
| resistente a las heladas | hardy |
| está al tallo | it has gone to seed |
| tallo | stem, stalk |
| terreno fértil | fertile ground |
| regar | to water |
| podar | to prune |
| flores (de arboles frutales o ornamentales) | blossom |
| malas hierbas | weeds |
| maceta | plant pot |
| suelo | soil |
| ácido, neutro o alcalino | acidic, neutral or alcaline |
| plaguicida, el pesticida | pesticide |
| fósforo calcio magnesio molibdeno boro | phosphorus calcium magnesium molybdenum boron |
| carencias de nutrientes | lack of nutrients |
| estiércol | manure |
| el fertilizante, el abono | fertilizer |
| una hortaliza, las hortalizas | vegetable, garden produce |
| aspersor | sprinkler |
| una azada | a Spanish hoe |
| las semillas | seeds |
| una helada precoz | an early frost |
| sembrar | sow |
| conservar | store |
| el invernadero | greenhouse |
| la cosecha, la recolección | the harvest |
| una raíz, raíces | root, roots |
| arrancar una planta de raíz | to pull a plant up by its roots |
| el pulgón | greenfly |
| oruga | caterpillar |
| una motocultor, la motoazada | Rotovator |
| un surco | a furrow |
| hormonas de enraizamiento | rooting powder |
| turba | peat |
| lombriz | worm |
| verduras | vegetables |
| los semilleros | seedbeds |
| el cepellón | root ball |
| aclarar | to thin out |
| enterrar | to bury |
| Si se siembra muy superficialmente puede ser que la semilla se seque y no germine. | If you sow the seed very close to the surface it can dry out and not germinate. |
| sustrato | the growing medium |
| fibra de coco | coconut fibre |
| la perlita o la vermiculita | perlite or vermiculite |
| babosa, caracol | slug, snail |
| esparcir las semillas | scatter the seeds |
| regadera | watering can |