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Vegetable Gardening Project
Grow your own veggies! Discover how to plant, water, fertilize and manage weeds, insects and diseases in your vegetable garden. Learn how plants respond to light, make a worm box, freeze vegetables, make a compost, test and improve soil, and cross-pollinate flowers. Explore plant genetics, hydroponics and careers.
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Vegetable Gardening Project resources
Beginning to learn about vegetable gardening:
- Gardening: Let's Get Growing ($3.95 Find this in the 4-H Mall)
- University of Minnesota gardening resources
- University of Minnesota plant diagnosis
Some experience with this project:
- Gardening: See Them Sprout ($3.95 Find this in the 4-H Mall)
Looking for a challenge:
Project leader resources
- Gardening - Exhibit Guide ($1)
- Take Your Pick ($4.50 (44 pages) Find this in the 4-H Mall)
- Gardening: Set of 6 ($22.25 Find this in the 4-H Mall)
- Junior Master Gardener Student Manual
- Junior Master Gardener Teacher/Leader Guide
- Junior Master Gardener Health and Nutrition from the Garden
- Garden Levels
- Preparing horticulture projects
- Vegetable gardening (University of Minnesota Arboretum)
- I'm a 4-H Project Leader. Now What Do I Do?
- A Balancing Act (64 KB)
- From The Ground Up (48 KB)
- Skin Deep (43 KB)
Other online resources
4-H Youth record keeping
Project evaluation
- Vegetable gardening evaluation sheet (45 K PDF)
