Gardening is a pretty down-to-earth endeavor, be it at the hobby level, the crunchy-granola, back-to-the-land level or even when done by a professional landscaper. 

As such, it merits a rather basic, if sometimes ambiguous, vocabulary, including terms such as grass, pot, stick and spade. However, I couldn’t help but wonder what would happen to a gardener’s manual if it were written by some level of middle management, perhaps by someone who normally writes engineering specs or grant requests. The following are some of the terms we might find, followed by my humble attempts to interpret them.