gardening

gardening (usually uncountable, plural gardenings)

1. The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture.

   His hobby was gardening.

   • 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:

     Warm ambient air, loiterings abroad, gardenings, flowers to take about, and preserves to make, soothed the wicked imp to slumber in the parish of Hollingford in summer-time.

2. (by extension) Any process of care, maintenance, or curation, especially digitally.

   wiki gardening

   digital gardening

   • 2008, Mark S. Choate, Professional Wikis, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 171:

     Several special pages help with the wiki gardening task:¶ ❑ Uncategorized pages (Special:Uncategorizedpages): These are pages that do not have one or more categories assigned. Use this page to ensure that all pages are categorized.

   • 2020 September 3, Tanya Basu, “Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet”, in MIT Technology Review‎:

     Tom Critchlow, a consultant who has been cultivating his digital garden for years, spells out the main difference between old-school blogging and digital gardening.

3. (cricket) The act of a batsman prodding at the pitch with his bat, typically in order to flatten any bumps.

gardening

1. present participle of garden

   He had been gardening all day.

• dangering, deranging, gandering, grenading