Seed Starting
Vegetables
Insects
Diseases
Acronyms
100
The 3-syllable term for when a seed sprouts
What is germinate?
100
Hot weather crops
What are crops that go in when the soil temperature is above 60 degrees?
100
The term for an immature butterfly or moth
What is a caterpillar?
100
Source of early blight infections
What are soil borne spores?
100
IPM
What is Integrated Pest Management?
200
The 3 things a seed needs to start growing
What are water, air and light?
200
These barriers protect crops from insects
What are floating row covers?
200
A large caterpillar that eats tomato plants
What is a tomato hornworm?
200
Source of late blight infections
What are airborne spores?
200
MSDS
What is the Material Safety Data Sheet?
300
The best medium for starting seeds
What is soil-less mix?
300
This moderates soil temperature and blocks weeds
What is mulch?
300
These eat tiny holes in vegetables leaves, especially eggplant
What are flea beetles?
300
Easiest method to combat disease
What is garden hygiene / thoroughly clearing debris from the garden?
300
FDA
What is the Food and Drug Agency?
400
The common name for a fungus that kills small seedlings
What is damping off disease?
400
This group of tomatoes just keep growing
What are indeterminate tomatoes?
400
The term for an immature beetle
What is a grub?
400
Common cause for blossom end rot
What is low pH, low calcium?
400
Bt
What is bacillus thuringiensis?
500
The process for readying a plant for growing outdoors
What is hardening off?
500
The Three Sisters
What are corn, beans and squash?
500
A common vector for cucumber wilt
What is the cucumber beetle?
500
This causes catfacing
What is irregular watering?
500
EPA
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?