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Forum/gardening acronyms - Jimny14 - 10-06-2020

Would it be useful to have a thread with a list of commonly used acronyms made on here as a reference tool for users? Maybe we could all throw a list together and then someone compile it in to an easy to view alphabetical list?


RE: Forum/gardening acronyms - Veggie - 10-06-2020

I remember doing this in another place Wink Here's a few to start

BFB = Blood Fish and Bone - organic fertiliser
CFB - Climbing French bean
DFB - Dwarf French bean
FYM - Farmyard manure
GH - Greenhouse (from Bren)
MFB - Morrison's (or other supermarket) Flower Bucket
MPC - Multi purpose Compost (Small chilli)
PSB - Purple Sprouting Broccoli (from Vinny).
PT - Polytunnel
RB - Runner bean/Raised Bed#
RKB - Red Kidney Beans (PP)
SFG - Square Foot Gardening
WSB - White Sprouting Broccoli.

N - nitrogen
P - phosphorus
K - potassium


RE: Forum/gardening acronyms - Vinny - 10-06-2020

PSB Purple Sprouting Broccoli Smile


RE: Forum/gardening acronyms - Broadway - 10-06-2020

(10-06-2020, 05:57 PM)Jimny14 Wrote: Would it be useful to have a thread with a list of commonly used acronyms made on here as a reference tool for users? Maybe we could all throw a list together and then someone compile it in to an easy to view alphabetical list?
Good call JimnySmile


RE: Forum/gardening acronyms - Bren - 10-06-2020

GH - greenhouse


RE: Forum/gardening acronyms - Can the Man - 10-06-2020

(10-06-2020, 05:57 PM)Jimny14 Wrote: Would it be useful to have a thread with a list of commonly used acronyms made on here as a reference tool for users? Maybe we could all throw a list together and then someone compile it in to an easy to view alphabetical list?
Great idea Jimmy, thumbs up emoji.

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RE: Forum/gardening acronyms - Small chilli - 10-06-2020

MPC- multi purpose compost


RE: Forum/gardening acronyms - Neffa - 11-06-2020

All those explanations have taken the excited joy out of my day as I look forward to working out what the acrid nymph stands for.

As you were.


RE: Forum/gardening acronyms - Bren - 11-06-2020

You could make your own up Neffa, that would trick us all Big Grin


RE: Forum/gardening acronyms - Neffa - 11-06-2020

(11-06-2020, 03:59 PM)Bren Wrote: You could make your own up Neffa,  that would trick us all Big Grin
Now there’s an idea?