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Go wild! 15 easy May gardening tasks to ensure a beautiful, flowery summer (Gardening)

by Jane Perrone https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/may/07/go-wild-15-easy-may-gardening-tasks-to-ensure-a-beautiful-flowery-summer #C2 #IELTS #Reading #Guardian #Gardening 1. Wormery /ˈwɜːməri/ (n) a container in which worms are kept, for example in order to produce compost Try the mud pit, mud pies andn wormery. It has a beehive and a wormery and a lovely old magnolia tree. My compost bin has turned into a wormery. 2. Tender (adj) easily hurt or damaged tender young plants that were killed by the harsh winter A tender plant is delicate and needs protection from bad weather. The newborn looked so fragile and tender. syn: delicate, fragile, frail, weak, feeble, breakable 3. Tetris (Proper N) a puzzle video game in which falling tetrominoes must be manipulated to form complete lines, which are then cleared from the grid. A Tetris is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by ... 4. Shove sth (+adv./prep.) /ʃʌv/ (v) (informal) to put sth somewhere r...