Garden Basics
These are the 4 things plants need to survive.
What is nutrients, sun, water, and space?
An oblong, brown bug that lays tiny brown eggs on the underside of plants in the Cucurbitaceae family.
What are squash bugs?
The process of breaking down organic material into nutrient-rich soil.
What is composting?
This fruit is usually bright red, but also comes in green, yellow, or orange, and you definitely don't want it in your fruit salad.
What are tomatoes?
These are the three sisters.
What are corn, squash, and beans.
Combining more than one type of fruit, vegetable, or herb together in the same growing space. Planting crops together that can enhance each other's growth, protect each other from pests, and it allow us to maximize our yields.
What is companion planting?
Small, green, sap-sucking insects that are a ladybug's favorite snack.
What are aphids?
These are three things you can compost.
What are:
This technique involves cutting away parts of a plant to improve its shape or productivity.
What is pruning?
An ecosystem could be described as:
What is a community of biotic and abotic things interacting as a system?
This type of soil is ideal for gardening due to its balanced mixture of sand, silt, and clay.
What is loam?
The larval stage of a moth with a bright orange thorax, this bug likes to bore into the stems of plants in the Cucrbitaceae family.
What is a squash vine borer?
These are three things you can not compost.
What are:
Part of the Cucrbitaceace family, this fruit has over 100 different varieties, some of which we have grown in our garden.
What is squash?
This iconic garden, located in France, is known for its geometric hedge mazes and fountains.
What are the Gardens of Versailles?
This measure is used to describe how acidic or alkaline soil is.
What is PH?
These insects chew their way through leaves, flowers and fruits without stopping, eating up to half their body weight per day.
What are grasshoppers?
This is the problem composting tries to solve.
What is landfills taking up limited space and contributing to the increased production of methane and toxic leachate.
Tomatoes, squash, cucumber, peppers, strawberries, watermelon, radishes, and carrots all have this in common.
What are some of the plants we grew in the garden last year?
This plant, also known as Lavandula, is famous for its calming scent and purple flowers.
What is lavender?
This term is the name for the method of growing plants in a water-based solution without soil.
What is hydroponics?
Tiny red bugs that live under leaves and suck sap, causing yellow mottling on the leaves.
What are red mites?
These are the kinds of decomposition that make up dual process.
What is aerobic and anaerobic decomposition?
This perennial herb, Artemisia dracunculus, is known for its use in French cuisine.
What is tarragon?
What is Brianne and Stellas Favorite thing to grow?
Brianne: Aloe
Stella: Catnip