These two ingredients, besides sunlight, are required for a plant to grow.
What is carbon dioxide and water.
100
Define water soluable
What is the fertilizer will break down in water.
100
This is a community of living organisms spending all, or part, of their lives in the soil.
What is the soil food web.
100
Tomatoes and this plant are both susceptible to cutworms.
What is potatoes.
200
R
What is respiration
200
Autotrophe means ...
What is the plant can feed itself.
200
Green compost is organic or non-organic?
What is organic
200
Heterotrophs do this to create energy.
What is eat other plants or organisms.
200
Plant these legumes and let the plants go back into the Earth as green compost to restore nitrogen in your soil.
What is beans
300
S
What is sensitivity
300
Add this to your soil to make it more acidic.
What is sulfur
300
These are manufactured in factories.
What is chemical fertilizers.
300
These types of infection-fighting drugs have been found in plants fertilized with manure.
What is antibiotics.
300
Plant these strong-smelling bulbed plants near just about anything to deter aphids.
What is garlic OR onion.
400
G
What is growth
400
Add this to your soil to make it LESS acidic.
What is ash.
400
This is a method of composting a material WITHOUT air.
What is anaerobic.
400
This practice has been loosely linked with Mad Cow disease - bonus points if you can give the real name of the disease.
What is feeding animals leftovers of their own species (i.e. feeding ground up bits of cattle BACK to cattle). Bonus: bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
400
Name any TWO of the four really good plants to go beside corn,
What is beans, parsley, peas and potatoes.
500
REN
What is reproduction, excretion and nutrition
500
Manure is this, as opposed to chemical fertilizer.
What is organic compounds.
500
This gas is a by-product of most manures and can be burned to create heat.
What is methane.
500
There are more than 28,000 different types of this pest. Approximately 16,000 are parasitic
What is nematodes.
500
These are the three main factors to look for when planning your next garden.
What is drainage, sun exposure, and ease of weeding.