Sheep
Name of the practice where you take the wool off of a sheep.
What is shearing?
Name the most common crop grown in Iowa.
What is corn?
Name an early spring crop that is pink, tangy, and great in pie!
What is rhubarb?
Name a green that is delicious on the grill.
This brings May flowers.
What are April Showers?
What is over 1000?
Name three crops that best to plant using direct seeding (directly putting the seeds into the ground).
Many answers are acceptable! What are peas, beans, spinach, radishes, turnips, rutabaga, beets, carrots?
Name a spring crop that you miss over the winter and look forward to eating in the spring!
What are: greens, rhubarb, asparagus, radishes, spinach, green onions? Any answer really!
Name 3 vegetables that you can just stick in the freezer and cook later.
What are tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, collard greens, corn, kale?
Name what happens overnight when the temperature gets below 32 degrees. (hint: this can kill some crops, like tomatoes).
What is frost?
Name the gestation period for sheep (how long they are pregnant).
5 months!
Name 3 crops that you have to wait until the last frost to plant (bonus point if you can name what the last frost date in Iowa is!)
Many answers acceptable, including: What are tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, cucumbers, swiss chard, eggplant, okra, and tomatillos.
The frost date in Iowa is May 15th!
Name a plant that is normally considered a weed, but actually is edible.
Many answers acceptable, including: What are nettles (if you boil them!), dandelion greens, lamb's quarters, or purslane?
What is blanching?
Name the meteorological phenomenon in which there are little rainbows on either side of the sun.
What is a sundog?
Sheep are this type of animal-- they have 5 stomachs and digest their food by coughing it back up and rechewing it. Also included are goats and cows!
What is a ruminant?
Name the season when garlic gets planted.
What is fall?
The name of a plastic covered structure used to control temperature for growing plants and extend the growing season.
What is a high tunnel, hoop house or greenhouse?
Name something you can make pesto out of.
What is basil, spinach, garlic chives, oregano, nettles, garlic scapes or kale?
What is the Flower Moon?
When sheep cough up the grass they've eaten and rechew it, it is called...
What is cud?
This type of crop comes back every year without having to be planted again.
What is a perennial?
Name 3 crops that we grow in our high tunnel.
What are lettuce, bok choy, koji, mustard greens, and baby kale?
Name the vegetable you need to make babaganoush.
What is eggplant?
Guess the record highest temperature in May in Iowa.
What is 105 degrees? (In 1934!)