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Vegetable Gardening: Soil, Seeds and Harvest

Home vegetable gardening from the ground up: building soil and compost, starting seeds, laying out and watering beds, rotating crop families, handling pests and diseases, and harvesting, storing and saving seed. For new and improving home gardeners.

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Soil, Compost and Mulch

How to build garden soil at home: making compost, using organic amendments, and choosing and spreading mulch.

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44 total questions

MCQ: 11

Fill-in: 9

Flashcards: 14

Pair match: 10

Soil, Compost and Mulch – Flashcards

Flashcards

Card #1

Humus

Card #2

Greens (in a compost pile)

Card #3

Browns (in a compost pile)

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Soil, Compost and Mulch – MCQ

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Your compost pile smells strongly of ammonia and the material is wet and slimy. What should you mix in?
- Dry, carbon-rich material such as shredded cardboard or dead leaves
- More fresh grass clippings, to raise the temperature of the pile
- A few buckets of water, to wash the excess ammonia out of the pile
- A sheet of plastic over the top, to trap the smell inside the pile
2. Your pile of mostly dry leaves has barely warmed in a month, and a squeezed handful gives no moisture at all. What is the first fix?
- Water it as you turn it until it feels like a wrung-out sponge
- Add a thick layer of sawdust on top to insulate it from the cold
- Leave it untouched, since a dry pile is simply resting until spring
- Spread it thinly across the lawn so the leaves can dry out further
3. Which of these should stay out of a home compost pile?
- Used cat litter and dog droppings
- Crushed eggshells from the kitchen
- Coffee grounds with paper filters
- Shredded black-and-white newspaper

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Soil, Compost and Mulch – Fill-in-the-blank

Fill in the Blank

1. Spreading a thin layer of compost over the surface of a bed or lawn, without digging it in, is called ___.
Answer:top-dressingalso: topdressing, top dressing
Hint: Often written with a hyphen
2. Fungi that partner with plant roots, trading sugars for water and phosphorus they gather from the soil, are called ___ fungi.
Answer:mycorrhizalalso: mycorrhizae, mycorrhiza
Hint: Starts with myco-
3. A peat substitute made from coconut husk fibre is called ___.
Answer:coir
Hint: Four letters

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Soil, Compost and Mulch – Pair match

Pair Match

Blood meal↔Fast-acting nitrogen

Feather meal↔Slow-release nitrogen

Bone meal↔Phosphorus and calcium from animal bones

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