Overview
Lavender growing has its own words, and so does running a farm business. Here are the ones the game uses most, in plain English. Many link to a full article in this wiki.
Terms A to Z
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Advance Week | Plays out a whole farm week at once: weather, growth, production, customers and bills, then shows a report. |
| Agritourism | Inviting visitors to the farm: tours, U-pick, workshops, events and stays. |
| Angustifolia | Lavandula angustifolia, often called English lavender. The classic culinary lavenders belong to this group. |
| Base value | The starting price of a product in coins, before your sales channel, reputation and quality change it. |
| Batch | One run of a recipe. You choose how many units it makes (1, 5 or 10, and more at high levels). |
| Botrytis (gray mold) | A fungus that spoils damp plant material. Drying racks need moving air; a greenhouse is at high risk at 85% humidity or more between 55 and 75°F. |
| Bud | The small dried flowers rubbed off a dried lavender stem, used in sachets, pillows and bath goods. |
| Cottage food | Food made in a home kitchen and sold under a state law that allows it, with limits on what, where and how much you can sell. |
| Crown | The plant base where stems and roots meet. Prolonged wetness here can be damaging. |
| Culinary lavender | Food-grade lavender: a Culinary lot from a cultivar rated 3★ or better for culinary use, or buds sifted clean. |
| Cultivar | A selected, named plant variety kept true by propagation, such as Munstead or Grosso. |
| Debudding | Separating the buds from dried bundles. |
| DLI (daily light integral) | How much light plants get in a day. Greenhouse plants grow only with at least 9 DLI. |
| Dormancy | Winter rest. Outdoor lavender stops growing and routine watering stops in cold weeks. |
| Drainage | How fast water leaves the soil. Lavender wants fast-draining ground. |
| Essential oil | The concentrated aromatic oil from steam-distilling fresh lavender flowers. |
| Frost dates | Your last spring frost and first fall frost. They set your planting windows. |
| Grower stage | One of six Grower Journey stages, from Backyard Grower to Master Grower. Each opens new places. |
| HAF fans | Horizontal airflow fans in a greenhouse. They stir the air but do not cool it. |
| Hardiness zone | A regional minimum-temperature guide (USDA zones), not a complete growing guarantee. |
| Hydrosol | The aromatic water collected during steam distillation, alongside the oil. |
| Intermedia (lavandin) | Lavandula × intermedia, a hybrid grown mostly for oil, bundles and crafts rather than food. |
| IPM (integrated pest management) | Scouting for pests and disease early and choosing the gentlest response that works. |
| Licensed Kitchen | A commercial kitchen with no cottage food limits; in the game, a 500-coin barn station. |
| Lot | A traceable quantity of product made or reserved together. |
| Microclimate | Local conditions that differ from the broader regional climate. |
| Mother stock | Plants kept as a source of cuttings for propagation. |
| pH | How acid or alkaline the soil is. Lavender favors neutral to alkaline soil, around 6.5 to 7.5. |
| Planting window | The weeks when outdoor planting is open: in spring around your last frost, and in fall if there is time before winter. |
| Plug | A young rooted plant. The Plant tool costs the cultivar’s plug price. |
| Pollinator row | A flowering plant left for bees instead of being harvested. |
| Raised row | A row built up above the ground so water drains away from the roots. |
| Reputation | How well your farm is known and trusted. It raises prices and opens opportunities. |
| Sifting | Screening buds to remove chaff and broken bits, leaving culinary-grade lavender. |
| Stoechas | Lavandula stoechas, with petal "flags" on top of the flower head. Tender (zones 7 to 10) and used for potted plants and bundles. |
| TCS foods | Foods that need a fridge to stay safe. Many states keep them out of home kitchens. |
| U-pick | Visitors cutting their own lavender in your field. |
| Varroa | A mite that attacks honey bee colonies; beekeepers scout for it. |
| Vernalization | A number of chill weeks some cultivars need before they will flower. |
| Wet feet | Roots sitting in saturated soil. Lavender hates it, and it can lead to root rot. |
| Wholesale | Selling in bulk to another business at a set price, often with a deadline. |
| XP | Experience points. They fill your farm level bar from Level 1 to 100. |
See also
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