Garden | Learn English in the Garden | Havisha Rathore

Hi, I am Havisha Rathore.

To be a fluent, confident English speaker, you need to have words to talk about everyday life in English.

So, friends, are you ready to learn English through a garden? Let's do it

and I hope so, it will enrich your vocabulary to talk about outdoors especially the garden.

My father always says, I have a green thumb. Green Thumb? My thumb is not green. So what does it mean?

It means, you are good at growing plants. So, let's start by talking about different types of gardens

The first is, a flower garden. If someone asks you, do you like gardening and do you say yeah

then people might ask you, what type of garden do you have? You could say, "Well, I've got a flower garden."

Flower gardens are great for attracting pollinators like bees and other types of insects that help to spread pollen to

different types of flowers and help them grow. They help our world to become a wonderful place to live.

Flower gardens are great. They add some color to our life.

Another type of garden is a vegetable garden where we grow vegetables. Another type of garden is organic garden.

I like to grow organically. Now, in more modern times, this term has come to mean that we don't use any pesticides.

In general, we try to avoid pesticides and grow organically. Now, this term, organic, has become common

in our day-to-day conversation. It means, to be original or natural. For example, the relationship between us is organic.

Means, we don't have any fake relationship. We have an original YouTube family relationship.

Let's take another example, I have an organic friendship, I have an organic friendship with Adivtya and Atrey.

Means, I don't have any fake friendship. I have a real friendship with Adivtya and Atrey.

Did You observe, in this clip, Virat Kohli also used the word organic, many times.

Now, let's talk about some things you might wear while gardening. The first is a sun hat. You can wear sun hat

to protect your face or to shade your eyes from the Sun. You might also wear gloves. Gardening gloves are useful

for weeding. I, especially, wear these gloves for weeding. Weed? Weeding? Weed is a wild plant which is

not wanted in a garden because it prevents other plants from growing properly. So, weeding means,

to remove these unwanted plants. For example, this is a weed. This is a weed and this is the plant.

So, let me remove this weed.

Friends, these gloves are really useful while picking up things which might be prickly or which have thorns on it.

Now, let's talk about some tools which are needed for bringing water to the plants. The first one is a hose.

This hose is very helpful for bringing water to far away places in the garden which you really don't feel like

bringing your watering can too. It's a very nice thing to give water to the plants. I always love to use a hose

rather than a watering can. Now, you might be wondering what does a watering can look like.

Actually, my watering can has got damaged. So, I can't show it to you.

But, yes, for your information a watering can looks like this.

Now, this is a spade or trowel. I, generally, use this spade for digging big holes or for scooping up many things.

It's hard work, but it's a very useful tool.

Now, this is a hoe. It is really useful for slamming and breaking up the soil. If there's a root in the way,

you can break the root also with this hoe. It's really very powerful.

In Rajasthan, we call it, Fawada. What do you call it in your language? Write it in the comment box.

This is rake. It's really useful for scrapping away loose things on top of the soil, than maybe a shovel.

It is really useful.

The next is a twine. Twine is really useful for tying up the plants. And, it is weather resistant and very thick.

It's a very thick and weather resistant thread. See, here, this twine has tied up this plant and this too is tied up.

Now, let me show you some more twine. Here also, this plant is perfectly tied up with this twine and this stick

Here also, I think. Here also, a plant is tied up particularly with this thick and weather resistant...

See, here also, twine is tied up to support the plants. Sometimes, I also wear bug spray.

especially for the mosquitoes. They can get pretty bad around here. Oh, look, there's a mosquito. Lemme swat it.

So, friends, what did I do? I just swatted the mosquito. Swat? Yes.

Swat means, to hit mosquito with your hand.

So, friends, what did I do? I swatted the mosquito.

There are two words commonly associated with Gathering vegetables from the garden. The first one is pick,

and the second one is Harvest and I want to tell you quickly the difference. In a garden like this,

this is just my backyard garden, I would say, I picked some oranges, I picked some beans. I wouldn't say

I harvested some beans, I harvested some oranges because the word Harvest is used for Farms,

big scale Gardens where there is a big crop, and here in this Garden, I have a couple of beans there,

and a couple of oranges there. So, I cannot say, I harvested beans, I harvested raw oranges. I cannot say.

I would say, I pick some beans. I picked oranges.

So, friends, did you understand the difference between pick and harvest? Harvest is used for Farms big scale projects,

and whereas, pick is used for gardens. See, these are the oranges I have in my garden. So, I would say, I picked some oranges.

I would not say, I harvested oranges. But, yes, these are not ripe yet to eat them. Ripe? Ripe means ready to eat.

So, friends, these oranges are not ripe, means these oranges are not ready to eat. Oh, I noticed an army of ants over here.

This creeper is sprawling everywhere. Sprawl? What's the meaning of sprawl? Sprawl means to spread especially awkwardly.

Sprawl also means if you spread your arms and legs untidily, you can say, he or she is sprawling everywhere.

In cities, sprawl means, to cover a large area with buildings especially over a gradual period of time

Oh, look, this is a creeper. It needs support and it is supported with a twine, but I think, it is rotten. Rotten? What does rotten mean?

Means, you can say, this vegetable has rotten. Similarly, this plant has rotten.

What's underneath me, right now? The nice. This dark, nice stuff.

What is it called? It's called soil. If you talk about, simply, what is in the ground, you can say, dirt. It's just dirt. But, when we talk about a garden, we say, soil,

the nice, rich soil. Basically, this dark, rich stuff, soil, means that it has a richer composition. It's got some minerals, but that doesn't mean, it has fertilizer.

That just means, it is good for the plants. It is just good for the plants, that makes soil. Now, if the soil is not rich, you can add some amendments to it like minerals, and

minerals or some organic components. Recently, Satguru conducted a campaign about saving soil. He said that if we remove all the minerals from soil,

soil will become sand. But, if we add all the minerals to sand, the sand will become soil. So, friends we should save our soil. If you plant some tomatoes,

for example, if you plant some tomatoes in just dirt, it is less chance for it to grow. But, when you plant them in beautiful rich soil,

there are better chances for it to grow into beautiful tomato plant or anything you want to grow. Sometimes, you might have seen swarms of pollinators

moving around rotten fruits, and vegetables. Swarm? What does it mean? Here, it means that if a group of insects moving all together is called a swarm of insects.

If you talk about people, swarm means, when a group of people is all moving together, we call it, a swarm of people. For example,

the beach was swarming with people

Let's take another example, a swarm of mosquitoes chased me, but I just swatted them. Have you heard of volunteer plant,

volunteer pumpkin, volunteer beans, volunteer pepper. Have you heard of it? Volunteer plant means, a plant which grew on its own.

You did not intend to grow it, but it just grew on its own because it just wanted to. It is volunteering to grow. For example, I have this plant. I grew these flowers, but

I did not intend to grow this plant. It just grew on its own. It is volunteering to grow. So, I would say, this is a volunteer plant. We have many volunteer plants here.

Let's take another example, here I did not wanna grow this plant, but it just grew on its own, because it just wish to grow. It just grew on its own.

But, these flowers, I wanna them to grow, whereas, this plant, it just grew on its own. I did not intend to grow this. it just grew, so it is volunteering to grow.

So, what is it? It is a volunteer plant. Well, thank you for joining me on this tour of this Garden. It makes me really happy to share this thing with you! Thank you so much!

Now, I've got some questions for you. The first one is, do you have a green thumb? Do you have a garden? Do you have a volunteer plant growing around your garden?

and the last one, do you know what do we call this tool? Write in the comment box. If you've learned something new garden vocabulary through this video,

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