Bilingual gardening vocabulary: Verbs

How well do you know the verbs used in gardening? Would you know how to say them in French? This quiz will allow you to hone your knowledge of gardening in both languages! Just choose the correct French equivalent for the verbs in bold font in the sentences below. Time to get digging!

1. In spring, it’s important to loosen the earth.
2. Gardeners need to enrich the soil periodically to maximize plant growth.
3. Janina had to clear a section of her back yard to plant her raspberry bushes.
4. Mario likes to grow a wide variety of tomatoes in his vegetable patch.
5. I ought to weed my lawn and flowerbeds. They’re full of dandelions!
6. Abdul is going to sow vegetable seeds in his garden this afternoon.
7. Every fall, we have to rake up several bags’ worth of leaves from our front lawn.
8. We’ll need to plow the garden bed and create nice, neat rows before planting our seeds.
9. It is better to water your garden in the evening.
10. Various substances, including compost, manure and bone meal, can be used to fertilize poor soil.