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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Starting seeds indoors and outdoors, reading seed packets, frost dates and USDA hardiness zones, and moving seedlings into the garden.
45 total questions
Card #1
Germination test (rag-doll test)
Card #2
Hardening off
Card #3
Average last spring frost date
1. A seed packet says to start indoors 6–8 weeks before your last frost. Your average last frost is May 10. When should you sow?
2. A tomato packet says 70 days to maturity. You set out transplants on June 1. Around when should the first ripe fruit come?
3. You garden in USDA zone 6b. A perennial's tag says it is hardy to zone 7. What does that tell you?
1. A common rule is to sow a seed about two to ___ times as deep as the seed is wide.
Hint: A small number
2. The first stage of germination, when a dry seed soaks up water and swells, is called ___.
Hint: Related to the word imbibe
3. The first root to push out of a germinating seed is the ___.
Hint: Sounds like radical
