What's in Season?
True or False
Watermelon should be planted in the spring (warm season) to be able to harvest in summer.
What is true?
True or False
Germinate means to sprout or grow.
What is true?
Long-handled tool used to dig.
What is a shovel?
Fruit used in pizza sauce, salsa, ketchup, and salads.
What is a tomato?
Added to soil to help plants grow.
Bonus: Name 3 different kinds!
What is fertilizer?
True or False
Green, leafy vegetables thrive in the warm/hot months in an Arizona low-desert garden.
What is false?
The decayed, organic material used as plant food.
What is fertilizer/compost?
Tool used to move dirt, chop weeds, or make rows.
What is a hoe?
The part of the plant that is eaten which grows underground.
Bonus: Name 5 of them!
What is the root?
True or False
You can't water a plant too much.
What is false?
The time it takes for a plant to produce fruit.
What is harvest time or days to maturity?
What is a seedling?
Container to hold plants.
What is a planting pot or raised bed?
The fruit that has a name change when you add salt and vinegar to it.
What is a cucumber?
The things you should notice about the environment you choose before starting a garden.
What are the amount of sunlight, what kind of soil you have, water source, how much space for plants?
The month that pumpkins should be planted in order to ensure a harvest by Halloween.
What is July?
The name for scattering seeds in soil.
What is to sow?
A hand tool or machine used for breaking up soil.
What is a tiller or rototiller?
Tree looking vegetable that blooms into yellow flowers.
What is broccoli?
Plants that require more nutrients through fertilizing more often than others.
Bonus: Name 2!
What are heavy feeders?
The reason why corn plants are planted in short rows instead of one long row in a garden.
What is easier for the plants to pollinate with each other?
To plant different plants in close proximity with one another to enhance each other's harvest or add protection.
What is companion planting?
Contraption used for exterminating pesky gophers.
What is a gopher trap?
The leaves of these plants are used to add flavor to our foods.
What are herbs?
Method used to help prevent water evaporation of the soil around a plant and to discourage weed growth. Hay, straw or wood chips can be used in this.
What is mulching?