Transpiration is the movement of water from the roots via the stem to the leaves. Much like when you breathe out on a cold day, you can see the misty water vapour in your breath. It's the same with plants, as they breathe they loose water. As they evaporate water from their leaves more water and nutrients are sucked up from the soil by the roots by the process of osmosis to keep the leaves supplied with water - their equivalent of blood
Last edited: 04 July 2017 17:35:09
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Hi, im not getting anywhere with this gardening stuff. I'm doing a list of plants that we have at work which is helping me to learn about different plants but it's the science i want to learn like photosynthesis and all that. My boss tells me to look online for definitions but every site i go on says different things.
I have tried reading Dr Hessayon books but I have trouble understanding things because of my head injury, it takes a while for me to grasp things that i want to learn. Are there any simpler books or reliable source websites that you know of that i could learn from?
no and nope. im struggling to learn things, as i didnt have\ a good education in school, now i want to learn things, yes i've been to college and had lots of qualifications but the lecturers assumed that i knew things so i couldnt really follow the lectures. People around me seem to know alot, i ask them how can i know things like you? They say just read read and read. My friend showed me a way she learned things when she was in college, she read things then made questions on card from sentences from a book then wrote the answers on the back. I tried it but I find it hard to make sentences into questions starting with Who What Where When How.
I have friends with stunning gardens and veg plots who haven't a clue how plants actually work. You don't need qualifications, what you need is experience and practice. What do you grow for yourself ? Have you tried growing plants?
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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inside the stem are tubes called Xylem and Phloem that carry water from the roots, yes?
Xylem carry water. Phloem transport food.
I don't think you need to learn too much detail. As long as you understand the gist of it that will be all you need.
Could you tell me what transpiration is simply please. Alan Titchmarsh's book is confusing me.
Transpiration is the movement of water from the roots via the stem to the leaves.
Much like when you breathe out on a cold day, you can see the misty water vapour in your breath. It's the same with plants, as they breathe they loose water. As they evaporate water from their leaves more water and nutrients are sucked up from the soil by the roots by the process of osmosis to keep the leaves supplied with water - their equivalent of blood
Last edited: 04 July 2017 17:35:09
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Hi, im not getting anywhere with this gardening stuff. I'm doing a list of plants that we have at work which is helping me to learn about different plants but it's the science i want to learn like photosynthesis and all that. My boss tells me to look online for definitions but every site i go on says different things.
I have tried reading Dr Hessayon books but I have trouble understanding things because of my head injury, it takes a while for me to grasp things that i want to learn. Are there any simpler books or reliable source websites that you know of that i could learn from?
Hi Ashley
Since your injury, have you ever had any help in analysing your 'learning style' and what works best for you?
Do you have any input from anyone who could help you access support in discovering your learning style?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
no and nope. im struggling to learn things, as i didnt have\ a good education in school, now i want to learn things, yes i've been to college and had lots of qualifications but the lecturers assumed that i knew things so i couldnt really follow the lectures. People around me seem to know alot, i ask them how can i know things like you? They say just read read and read. My friend showed me a way she learned things when she was in college, she read things then made questions on card from sentences from a book then wrote the answers on the back. I tried it but I find it hard to make sentences into questions starting with Who What Where When How.
I have friends with stunning gardens and veg plots who haven't a clue how plants actually work.
You don't need qualifications, what you need is experience and practice.
What do you grow for yourself ? Have you tried growing plants?
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
yes im growing miniature sweet peas