How does your garden grow?
My garden grows great because I first consulted the hardiness zone map from this organization, USDA for short
What is the US Department of Agriculture?
A remnant of the ancient Lake Bonneville, it's the largest lake in the western United States
What is the Great Salt Lake?
This man defeated Vercingetorix at the 52 B.C. Battle of Alesia, & Gaul was Rome's
Who is Julius Caesar?
This national park has 5 entrances, hundreds of waterfalls & more than 300 active geysers
What is Yellowstone?
A small unit of a large entity, like a campus apart from the main branch of a university
What is satellite?
A couple of weeks before planting, mix in some of this decaying organic matter from the "heap" to help stabilize your soil
What is compost?
The Rappahannock River rises in the Blue Ridge Mountains & flows just over 200 miles before emptying into this bay
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
At the decisive 331 B.C. Battle of Gaugamela, Alexander the Great's phalanxes opened ranks to let these wheeled Persian weapons pass through, then wipe them out
What are chariots?
Alphabetically, our national parks run from Acadia in Maine to this one in Utah
What is Zion?
Colors can be precisely specified by their brightness & this, their degree of intensity
What is saturation?
It pretty much grows whatever I do, as I planted this almost full-proof herb that aromatic and tasty in tea
What is mint?
Popular for bass fishing, the manmade Grand Lake o' the Cherokees is in this state
What is Oklahoma?
Horses were terrified of these war beasts, which routed Roman cavalry at the 280 B.C. Battle of Heraclea
What are elephants?
Known for its cliff dwellings, the name of this Colorado park is Spanish for "green table"
What is Mesa Verde?
There's a planet in this word meaning an orgy or a wild celebration
What is saturnalia?
Diatomaceous earth is great as one of these, as it damages the cuticles & joints of the invaders
What is pesticide?
The city of Florence, Italy, lies on both sides of this four-letter river
What is the Arno?
Cleopatra's galleys fled at the Battle of Actium, a victory for this soon-to-be emperor's fleet
Who is Octavian?
Of these 2 California parks, Ken Burns said one offers the biggest trees; the other, the tallest
What are Sequoia and Redwoods?
It's a kind of mandarin orange
What is satsuma?
To speed this process by which by seeds begin to sprout, rub them on sandpaper in a technique called scarification
What is germination?
This longest river of Poland runs through the city of Warsaw
What is the Vistula?
Muwatallis, not Uriah, led these people against the Egyptians in the 1274 B.C. Battle of Kadesh
Who are the Hittites?
Located in Oregon, this deepest U.S. lake is in a national park of the same name
What is Crater?
Zen Buddhists hope to reach this state of sudden enlightenment
What is satori?